The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
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draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis-12
Transport Layer Security E. Rescorla
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Obsoletes: 8446 (if approved) 18 February 2025
Updates: 5705, 6066, 7627, 8422 (if approved)
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The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
draft-ietf-tls-rfc8446bis-12
Abstract
This document specifies version 1.3 of the Transport Layer Security
(TLS) protocol. TLS allows client/server applications to communicate
over the Internet in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping,
tampering, and message forgery.
This document updates RFCs 5705, 6066, 7627, and 8422 and obsoletes
RFCs 5077, 5246, 6961, 8422, and 8446. This document also specifies
new requirements for TLS 1.2 implementations.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. Conventions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2. Relationship to RFC 8446 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3. Major Differences from TLS 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4. Updates Affecting TLS 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1. Incorrect DHE Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2. Resumption and Pre-Shared Key (PSK) . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.3. 0-RTT Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3. Presentation Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.1. Basic Block Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.2. Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.3. Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4. Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.5. Enumerateds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.6. Constructed Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.7. Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.8. Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4. Handshake Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.1. Key Exchange Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.1.1. Cryptographic Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.1.2. Client Hello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.1.3. Server Hello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.1.4. Hello Retry Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.2. Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
4.2.1. Supported Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.2.2. Cookie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.2.3. Signature Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.2.4. Certificate Authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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4.2.5. OID Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.2.6. Post-Handshake Certificate-Based Client
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.2.7. Supported Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.2.8. Key Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.2.9. Pre-Shared Key Exchange Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.2.10. Early Data Indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.2.11. Pre-Shared Key Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.3. Server Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.3.1. Encrypted Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.3.2. Certificate Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.4. Authentication Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.4.1. The Transcript Hash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.4.2. Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
4.4.3. Certificate Verify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4.4.4. Finished . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
4.5. End of Early Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.6. Post-Handshake Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.6.1. New Session Ticket Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
4.6.2. Post-Handshake Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
4.6.3. Key and Initialization Vector Update . . . . . . . . 73
5. Record Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.1. Record Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
5.2. Record Payload Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
5.3. Per-Record Nonce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.4. Record Padding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.5. Limits on Key Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6. Alert Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6.1. Closure Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.2. Error Alerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
7. Cryptographic Computations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.1. Key Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7.2. Updating Traffic Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.3. Traffic Key Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.4. (EC)DHE Shared Secret Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.4.1. Finite Field Diffie-Hellman . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.4.2. Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
7.5. Exporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
8. 0-RTT and Anti-Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
8.1. Single-Use Tickets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
8.2. Client Hello Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
8.3. Freshness Checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
9. Compliance Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
9.1. Mandatory-to-Implement Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . 99
9.2. Mandatory-to-Implement Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
9.3. Protocol Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
11. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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11.1. Changes for this RFC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Appendix A. State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
A.1. Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
A.2. Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Appendix B. Protocol Data Structures and Constant Values . . . . 120
B.1. Record Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
B.2. Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
B.3. Handshake Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
B.3.1. Key Exchange Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
B.3.2. Server Parameters Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
B.3.3. Authentication Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
B.3.4. Ticket Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
B.3.5. Updating Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
B.4. Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Appendix C. Implementation Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
C.1. Random Number Generation and Seeding . . . . . . . . . . 132
C.2. Certificates and Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
C.3. Implementation Pitfalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
C.4. Client and Server Tracking Prevention . . . . . . . . . . 135
C.5. Unauthenticated Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Appendix D. Updates to TLS 1.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Appendix E. Backward Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
E.1. Negotiating with an Older Server . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
E.2. Negotiating with an Older Client . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
E.3. 0-RTT Backward Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
E.4. Middlebox Compatibility Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
E.5. Security Restrictions Related to Backward
Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Appendix F. Overview of Security Properties . . . . . . . . . . 141
F.1. Handshake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
F.1.1. Key Derivation and HKDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
F.1.2. Certificate-Based Client Authentication . . . . . . . 145
F.1.3. 0-RTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
F.1.4. Exporter Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
F.1.5. Post-Compromise Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
F.1.6. External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
F.2. Record Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
F.2.1. External References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
F.3. Traffic Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
F.4. Side Channel Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
F.5. Replay Attacks on 0-RTT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
F.5.1. Replay and Exporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
F.6. PSK Identity Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
F.7. Sharing PSKs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
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F.8. Misbinding when using Self-Signed Certificates or Raw
Public Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
F.9. Attacks on Static RSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Appendix G. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
1. Introduction
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The primary goal of TLS is to provide a secure channel between two
communicating peers; the only requirement from the underlying
transport is a reliable, in-order data stream. Specifically, the
secure channel should provide the following properties:
* Authentication: The server side of the channel is always
authenticated; the client side is optionally authenticated.
Authentication can happen via asymmetric cryptography (e.g., RSA
[RSA], the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
[DSS], or the Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)
[RFC8032]) or a symmetric pre-shared key (PSK).
* Confidentiality: Data sent over the channel after establishment is
only visible to the endpoints. TLS does not hide the length of
the data it transmits, though endpoints are able to pad TLS
records in order to obscure lengths and improve protection against
traffic analysis techniques.
* Integrity: Data sent over the channel after establishment cannot
be modified by attackers without detection.
These properties should be true even in the face of an attacker who
has complete control of the network, as described in [RFC3552]. See
Appendix F for a more complete statement of the relevant security
properties.
TLS consists of two primary components:
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* A handshake protocol (Section 4) that authenticates the
communicating parties, negotiates cryptographic algorithms and
parameters, and establishes shared keying material. The handshake
protocol is designed to resist tampering; an active attacker
should not be able to force the peers to negotiate different
parameters than they would if the connection were not under
attack.
* A record protocol (Section 5) that uses the parameters established
by the handshake protocol to protect traffic between the
communicating peers. The record protocol divides traffic up into
a series of records, each of which is independently protected
using the traffic keys.
TLS is application protocol independent; higher-level protocols can
layer on top of TLS transparently. The TLS standard, however, does
not specify how protocols add security with TLS; how to initiate TLS
handshaking and how to interpret the authentication certificates
exchanged are left to the judgment of the designers and implementors
of protocols that run on top of TLS. Application protocols using TLS
MUST specify how TLS works with their application protocol, including
how and when handshaking occurs, and how to do identity verification.
[RFC9525] provides useful guidance on integrating TLS with
application protocols.
This document defines TLS version 1.3. While TLS 1.3 is not directly
compatible with previous versions, all versions of TLS incorporate a
versioning mechanism which allows clients and servers to
interoperably negotiate a common version if one is supported by both
peers.
This document supersedes and obsoletes previous versions of TLS,
including version 1.2 [RFC5246]. It also obsoletes the TLS ticket
mechanism defined in [RFC5077] and replaces it with the mechanism
defined in Section 2.2. Because TLS 1.3 changes the way keys are
derived, it updates [RFC5705] as described in Section 7.5. It also
changes how Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) messages are
carried and therefore updates [RFC6066] and obsoletes [RFC6961] as
described in Section 4.4.2.1.
1.1. Conventions and Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
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The following terms are used:
client: The endpoint initiating the TLS connection.
connection: A transport-layer connection between two endpoints.
endpoint: Either the client or server of the connection.
handshake: An initial negotiation between client and server that
establishes the parameters of their subsequent interactions within
TLS.
peer: An endpoint. When discussing a particular endpoint, "peer"
refers to the endpoint that is not the primary subject of discussion.
receiver: An endpoint that is receiving records.
sender: An endpoint that is transmitting records.
server: The endpoint that did not initiate the TLS connection.
1.2. Relationship to RFC 8446
TLS 1.3 was originally specified in [RFC8446]. This document is a
minor update to TLS 1.3 that retains the same version number and is
backward compatible. It tightens some requirements and contains
updated text in areas which were found to be unclear as well as other
editorial improvements. In addition, it removes the use of the term
"master" as applied to secrets in favor of the term "main" or shorter
names where no term was necessary. This document makes the following
specific technical changes:
* Forbid negotiating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 as they are now deprecated by
[RFC8996].
* Removes ambiguity around which hash is used with PreSharedKeys and
HelloRetryRequest.
* Require that clients ignore NewSessionTicket if they do not
support resumption.
* Upgrade the requirement to initiate key update before exceeding
key usage limits to MUST.
* Limit the number of permitted KeyUpdate messages.
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* Restore text defining the level of "close_notify" to "warning".
Clarify behavior around "user_canceled", requiring that
"close_notify" be sent and that "user_canceled" should be ignored.
* Add a "general_error" generic alert.
* Corrected the lower bound on CertificateRequest.extensions to be 0
bytes. This was an error in the syntax as it is possible to send
no extensions, which results in length 0.
In addition, there have been some improvements to the security
considerations, especially around privacy.
1.3. Major Differences from TLS 1.2
The following is a list of the major functional differences between
TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. It is not intended to be exhaustive, and there
are many minor differences.
* The list of supported symmetric encryption algorithms has been
pruned of all algorithms that are considered legacy. Those that
remain are all Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
(AEAD) algorithms. The cipher suite concept has been changed to
separate the authentication and key exchange mechanisms from the
record protection algorithm (including secret key length) and a
hash to be used with both the key derivation function and
handshake message authentication code (MAC).
* A zero round-trip time (0-RTT) mode was added, saving a round trip
at connection setup for some application data, at the cost of
certain security properties.
* Static RSA and Diffie-Hellman cipher suites have been removed; all
public-key based key exchange mechanisms now provide forward
secrecy.
* All handshake messages after the ServerHello are now encrypted.
The newly introduced EncryptedExtensions message allows various
extensions previously sent in the clear in the ServerHello to also
enjoy confidentiality protection.
* The key derivation function has been redesigned. The new design
allows easier analysis by cryptographers due to their improved key
separation properties. The HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand Key
Derivation Function (HKDF) is used as an underlying primitive.
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* The handshake state machine has been significantly restructured to
be more consistent and to remove superfluous messages such as
ChangeCipherSpec (except when needed for middlebox compatibility).
* Elliptic curve algorithms are now in the base spec, and new
signature algorithms, such as EdDSA, are included. TLS 1.3
removed point format negotiation in favor of a single point format
for each curve.
* Other cryptographic improvements were made, including changing the
RSA padding to use the RSA Probabilistic Signature Scheme (RSASSA-
PSS), and the removal of compression, the Digital Signature
Algorithm (DSA), and custom Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) groups.
* The TLS 1.2 version negotiation mechanism has been deprecated in
favor of a version list in an extension. This increases
compatibility with existing servers that incorrectly implemented
version negotiation.
* Session resumption with and without server-side state as well as
the PSK-based cipher suites of earlier TLS versions have been
replaced by a single new PSK exchange.
* References have been updated to point to the updated versions of
RFCs, as appropriate (e.g., RFC 5280 rather than RFC 3280).
1.4. Updates Affecting TLS 1.2
This document defines several changes that optionally affect
implementations of TLS 1.2, including those which do not also support
TLS 1.3:
* A version downgrade protection mechanism is described in
Section 4.1.3.
* RSASSA-PSS signature schemes are defined in Section 4.2.3.
* The "supported_versions" ClientHello extension can be used to
negotiate the version of TLS to use, in preference to the
legacy_version field of the ClientHello.
* The "signature_algorithms_cert" extension allows a client to
indicate which signature algorithms it can validate in X.509
certificates.
* The term "master" as applied to secrets has been removed, and the
"extended_master_secret" extension [RFC7627] has been renamed to
"extended_main_secret".
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Additionally, this document clarifies some compliance requirements
for earlier versions of TLS; see Section 9.3.
2. Protocol Overview
The cryptographic parameters used by the secure channel are produced
by the TLS handshake protocol. This sub-protocol of TLS is used by
the client and server when first communicating with each other. The
handshake protocol allows peers to negotiate a protocol version,
select cryptographic algorithms, authenticate each other (with client
authentication being optional), and establish shared secret keying
material. Once the handshake is complete, the peers use the
established keys to protect the application-layer traffic.
A failure of the handshake or other protocol error triggers the
termination of the connection, optionally preceded by an alert
message (Section 6).
TLS supports three basic key exchange modes:
* (EC)DHE (Diffie-Hellman over either finite fields or elliptic
curves)
* PSK-only
* PSK with (EC)DHE
Figure 1 below shows the basic full TLS handshake:
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Client Server
Key ^ ClientHello
Exch | + key_share*
| + signature_algorithms*
| + psk_key_exchange_modes*
v + pre_shared_key* -------->
ServerHello ^ Key
+ key_share* | Exch
+ pre_shared_key* v
{EncryptedExtensions} ^ Server
{CertificateRequest*} v Params
{Certificate*} ^
{CertificateVerify*} | Auth
{Finished} v
<-------- [Application Data*]
^ {Certificate*}
Auth | {CertificateVerify*}
v {Finished} -------->
[Application Data] <-------> [Application Data]
+ Indicates noteworthy extensions sent in the
previously noted message.
* Indicates optional or situation-dependent
messages/extensions that are not always sent.
{} Indicates messages protected using keys
derived from a [sender]_handshake_traffic_secret.
[] Indicates messages protected using keys
derived from [sender]_application_traffic_secret_N.
Figure 1: Message Flow for Full TLS Handshake
The handshake can be thought of as having three phases (indicated in
the diagram above):
* Key Exchange: Establish shared keying material and select the
cryptographic parameters. Everything after this phase is
encrypted.
* Server Parameters: Establish other handshake parameters (whether
the client is authenticated, application-layer protocol support,
etc.).
* Authentication: Authenticate the server (and, optionally, the
client) and provide key confirmation and handshake integrity.
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In the Key Exchange phase, the client sends the ClientHello
(Section 4.1.2) message, which contains a random nonce
(ClientHello.random); its offered protocol versions; a list of
symmetric cipher/hash pairs; either a list of Diffie-Hellman key
shares (in the "key_share" (Section 4.2.8) extension), a list of pre-
shared key labels (in the "pre_shared_key" (Section 4.2.11)
extension), or both; and potentially additional extensions.
Additional fields and/or messages may also be present for middlebox
compatibility.
The server processes the ClientHello and determines the appropriate
cryptographic parameters for the connection. It then responds with
its own ServerHello (Section 4.1.3), which indicates the negotiated
connection parameters. The combination of the ClientHello and the
ServerHello determines the shared keys. If (EC)DHE key establishment
is in use, then the ServerHello contains a "key_share" extension with
the server's ephemeral Diffie-Hellman share; the server's share MUST
be in the same group as one of the client's shares. If PSK key
establishment is in use, then the ServerHello contains a
"pre_shared_key" extension indicating which of the client's offered
PSKs was selected. Note that implementations can use (EC)DHE and PSK
together, in which case both extensions will be supplied.
The server then sends two messages to establish the Server
Parameters:
EncryptedExtensions: responses to ClientHello extensions that are
not required to determine the cryptographic parameters, other than
those that are specific to individual certificates.
[Section 4.3.1]
CertificateRequest: if certificate-based client authentication is
desired, the desired parameters for that certificate. This
message is omitted if client authentication is not desired.
[Section 4.3.2]
Finally, the client and server exchange Authentication messages. TLS
uses the same set of messages every time that certificate-based
authentication is needed. (PSK-based authentication happens as a
side effect of key exchange.) Specifically:
Certificate: The certificate of the endpoint and any per-certificate
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extensions. This message is omitted by the server if not
authenticating with a certificate and by the client if the server
did not send CertificateRequest (thus indicating that the client
should not authenticate with a certificate). Note that if raw
public keys [RFC7250] or the cached information extension
[RFC7924] are in use, then this message will not contain a
certificate but rather some other value corresponding to the
server's long-term key. [Section 4.4.2]
CertificateVerify: A signature over the entire handshake using the
private key corresponding to the public key in the Certificate
message. This message is omitted if the endpoint is not
authenticating via a certificate. [Section 4.4.3]
Finished: A MAC (Message Authentication Code) over the entire
handshake. This message provides key confirmation, binds the
endpoint's identity to the exchanged keys, and in PSK mode also
authenticates the handshake. [Section 4.4.4]
Upon receiving the server's messages, the client responds with its
Authentication messages, namely Certificate and CertificateVerify (if
requested), and Finished.
At this point, the handshake is complete, and the client and server
derive the keying material required by the record layer to exchange
application-layer data protected through authenticated encryption.
Application Data MUST NOT be sent prior to sending the Finished
message, except as specified in Section 2.3. Note that while the
server may send Application Data prior to receiving the client's
Authentication messages, any data sent at that point is, of course,
being sent to an unauthenticated peer.
2.1. Incorrect DHE Share
If the client has not provided a sufficient "key_share" extension
(e.g., it includes only DHE or ECDHE groups unacceptable to or
unsupported by the server), the server corrects the mismatch with a
HelloRetryRequest and the client needs to restart the handshake with
an appropriate "key_share" extension, as shown in Figure 2. If no
common cryptographic parameters can be negotiated, the server MUST
abort the handshake with an appropriate alert.
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Client Server
ClientHello
+ key_share -------->
HelloRetryRequest
<-------- + key_share
ClientHello
+ key_share -------->
ServerHello
+ key_share
{EncryptedExtensions}
{CertificateRequest*}
{Certificate*}
{CertificateVerify*}
{Finished}
<-------- [Application Data*]
{Certificate*}
{CertificateVerify*}
{Finished} -------->
[Application Data] <-------> [Application Data]
Figure 2: Message Flow for a Full Handshake with Mismatched
Parameters
Note: The handshake transcript incorporates the initial ClientHello/
HelloRetryRequest exchange; it is not reset with the new ClientHello.
TLS also allows several optimized variants of the basic handshake, as
described in the following sections.
2.2. Resumption and Pre-Shared Key (PSK)
Although TLS PSKs can be established externally, PSKs can also be
established in a previous connection and then used to establish a new
connection ("session resumption" or "resuming" with a PSK). Once a
handshake has completed, the server can send the client a PSK
identity that corresponds to a unique key derived from the initial
handshake (see Section 4.6.1). The client can then use that PSK
identity in future handshakes to negotiate the use of the associated
PSK. If the server accepts the PSK, then the security context of the
new connection is cryptographically tied to the original connection
and the key derived from the initial handshake is used to bootstrap
the cryptographic state instead of a full handshake. In TLS 1.2 and
below, this functionality was provided by "session IDs" and "session
tickets" [RFC5077]. Both mechanisms are obsoleted in TLS 1.3.
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PSKs can be used with (EC)DHE key exchange in order to provide
forward secrecy in combination with shared keys, or can be used
alone, at the cost of losing forward secrecy for the application
data.
Figure 3 shows a pair of handshakes in which the first handshake
establishes a PSK and the second handshake uses it:
Client Server
Initial Handshake:
ClientHello
+ key_share -------->
ServerHello
+ key_share
{EncryptedExtensions}
{CertificateRequest*}
{Certificate*}
{CertificateVerify*}
{Finished}
<-------- [Application Data*]
{Certificate*}
{CertificateVerify*}
{Finished} -------->
<-------- [NewSessionTicket]
[Application Data] <-------> [Application Data]
Subsequent Handshake:
ClientHello
+ key_share*
+ psk_key_exchange_modes
+ pre_shared_key -------->
ServerHello
+ pre_shared_key
+ key_share*
{EncryptedExtensions}
{Finished}
<-------- [Application Data*]
{Finished} -------->
[Application Data] <-------> [Application Data]
Figure 3: Message Flow for Resumption and PSK
As the server is authenticating via a PSK, it does not send a
Certificate or a CertificateVerify message. When a client offers
resumption via a PSK, it SHOULD also supply a "key_share" extension
to the server to allow the server to decline resumption and fall back
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to a full handshake, if needed. The server responds with a
"pre_shared_key" extension to negotiate the use of PSK key
establishment and can (as shown here) respond with a "key_share"
extension to do (EC)DHE key establishment, thus providing forward
secrecy.
When PSKs are provisioned externally, the PSK identity and the KDF
hash algorithm to be used with the PSK MUST also be provisioned.
Note: When using an externally provisioned pre-shared secret, a
critical consideration is using sufficient entropy during the key
generation, as discussed in [RFC4086]. Deriving a shared secret
from a password or other low-entropy sources is not secure. A
low-entropy secret, or password, is subject to dictionary attacks
based on the PSK binder. The specified PSK authentication is not
a strong password-based authenticated key exchange even when used
with Diffie-Hellman key establishment. Specifically, it does not
prevent an attacker that can observe the handshake from performing
a brute-force attack on the password/pre-shared key.
2.3. 0-RTT Data
When clients and servers share a PSK (either obtained externally or
via a previous handshake), TLS 1.3 allows clients to send data on the
first flight ("early data"). The client uses the PSK to authenticate
the server and to encrypt the early data.
As shown in Figure 4, the 0-RTT data is just added to the 1-RTT
handshake in the first flight. The rest of the handshake uses the
same messages as for a 1-RTT handshake with PSK resumption.
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Client Server
ClientHello
+ early_data
+ key_share*
+ psk_key_exchange_modes
+ pre_shared_key
(Application Data*) -------->
ServerHello
+ pre_shared_key
+ key_share*
{EncryptedExtensions}
+ early_data*
{Finished}
<-------- [Application Data*]
(EndOfEarlyData)
{Finished} -------->
[Application Data] <-------> [Application Data]
+ Indicates noteworthy extensions sent in the
previously noted message.
* Indicates optional or situation-dependent
messages/extensions that are not always sent.
() Indicates messages protected using keys
derived from a client_early_traffic_secret.
{} Indicates messages protected using keys
derived from a [sender]_handshake_traffic_secret.
[] Indicates messages protected using keys
derived from [sender]_application_traffic_secret_N.
Figure 4: Message Flow for a 0-RTT Handshake
IMPORTANT NOTE: The security properties for 0-RTT data are weaker
than those for other kinds of TLS data. Specifically:
1. The protocol does not provide any forward secrecy guarantees for
this data. The server's behavior determines what forward secrecy
guarantees, if any, apply (see Section 8.1). This behavior is
not communicated to the client as part of the protocol.
Therefore, absent out-of-band knowledge of the server's behavior,
the client should assume that this data is not forward secret.
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2. There are no guarantees of non-replay between connections.
Protection against replay for ordinary TLS 1.3 1-RTT data is
provided via the server's Random value, but 0-RTT data does not
depend on the ServerHello and therefore has weaker guarantees.
This is especially relevant if the data is authenticated either
with TLS client authentication or inside the application
protocol. The same warnings apply to any use of the
early_exporter_secret.
0-RTT data cannot be duplicated within a connection (i.e., the server
will not process the same data twice for the same connection), and an
attacker will not be able to make 0-RTT data appear to be 1-RTT data
(because it is protected with different keys). Appendix F.5 contains
a description of potential attacks, and Section 8 describes
mechanisms which the server can use to limit the impact of replay.
3. 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.
In the definitions below, optional components of this syntax are
denoted by enclosing them in "[[ ]]" (double brackets).
3.1. Basic Block Size
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 byte stream, a multi-byte item (a numeric in the
following example) is formed (using C notation) by:
value = (byte[0] << 8*(n-1)) | (byte[1] << 8*(n-2)) |
... | byte[n-1];
This byte ordering for multi-byte values is the commonplace network
byte order or big-endian format.
3.2. Miscellaneous
Comments begin with "/*" and end with "*/".
Single-byte entities containing uninterpreted data are of type
opaque.
A type alias T' for an existing type T is defined by:
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T T';
3.3. Numbers
The basic numeric data type is an unsigned byte (uint8). All larger
numeric data types are constructed from a fixed-length series of
bytes concatenated as described in Section 3.1 and are also unsigned.
The following numeric types are predefined.
uint8 uint16[2];
uint8 uint24[3];
uint8 uint32[4];
uint8 uint64[8];
All values, here and elsewhere in the specification, are transmitted
in network byte (big-endian) order; the uint32 represented by the hex
bytes 01 02 03 04 is equivalent to the decimal value 16909060.
3.4. Vectors
A vector (single-dimensioned array) is a stream of homogeneous data
elements. For presentation purposes, this specification refers to
vectors as lists. 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
T T'[n];
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.
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.
opaque Datum[3]; /* three uninterpreted bytes */
Datum Data[9]; /* three consecutive 3-byte vectors */
Variable-length vectors are defined by specifying a subrange of legal
lengths, inclusively, using the notation <floor..ceiling>. When
these are 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>;
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, which is
sufficient to represent the value 400 (see Section 3.3). Similarly,
"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 exact multiple of the length of a single
element (e.g., a 17-byte vector of uint16 would be illegal).
opaque mandatory<300..400>;
/* length field is two bytes, cannot be empty */
uint16 longer<0..800>;
/* zero to 400 16-bit unsigned integers */
3.5. Enumerateds
An additional sparse data type, called "enum" or "enumerated", is
available. Each definition is a different type. Only enumerateds of
the same type may be assigned or compared. Every element of an
enumerated must 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.
enum { e1(v1), e2(v2), ... , en(vn) [[, (n)]] } Te;
Future extensions or additions to the protocol may define new values.
Implementations need to be able to parse and ignore unknown values
unless the definition of the field states otherwise.
An enumerated occupies 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.
enum { red(3), blue(5), white(7) } Color;
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 in the current
version of the protocol.
enum { sweet(1), sour(2), bitter(4), (32000) } Taste;
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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.
Color color = Color.blue; /* overspecified, legal */
Color color = blue; /* correct, type implicit */
The names assigned to enumerateds do not need to be unique. The
numerical value can describe a range over which the same name
applies. The value includes the minimum and maximum inclusive values
in that range, separated by two period characters. This is
principally useful for reserving regions of the space.
enum { sad(0), meh(1..254), happy(255) } Mood;
3.6. Constructed Types
Structure types may be constructed from primitive types for
convenience. Each specification declares a new, unique type. The
syntax used for definitions is much like that of C.
struct {
T1 f1;
T2 f2;
...
Tn fn;
} T;
Fixed- and variable-length list (vector) fields are allowed using the
standard list syntax. Structures V1 and V2 in the variants example
(Section 3.8) demonstrate this.
The fields within a structure may be qualified using the type's name,
with a syntax much like that available for enumerateds. For example,
T.f2 refers to the second field of the previous declaration.
3.7. Constants
Fields and variables may be assigned a fixed value using "=", as in:
struct {
T1 f1 = 8; /* T.f1 must always be 8 */
T2 f2;
} T;
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3.8. Variants
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. Each
arm of the select (below) specifies the type of that variant's field
and an optional field label. 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 [[fe1]];
case e2: Te2 [[fe2]];
....
case en: Ten [[fen]];
};
} Tv;
For example:
enum { apple(0), orange(1) } VariantTag;
struct {
uint16 number;
opaque string<0..10>; /* variable length */
} V1;
struct {
uint32 number;
opaque string[10]; /* fixed length */
} V2;
struct {
VariantTag type;
select (VariantRecord.type) {
case apple: V1;
case orange: V2;
};
} VariantRecord;
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4. Handshake Protocol
The handshake protocol is used to negotiate the security parameters
of a connection. Handshake messages are supplied to the TLS record
layer, where they are encapsulated within one or more TLSPlaintext or
TLSCiphertext structures which are processed and transmitted as
specified by the current active connection state.
enum {
client_hello(1),
server_hello(2),
new_session_ticket(4),
end_of_early_data(5),
encrypted_extensions(8),
certificate(11),
certificate_request(13),
certificate_verify(15),
finished(20),
key_update(24),
message_hash(254),
(255)
} HandshakeType;
struct {
HandshakeType msg_type; /* handshake type */
uint24 length; /* remaining bytes in message */
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello: ClientHello;
case server_hello: ServerHello;
case end_of_early_data: EndOfEarlyData;
case encrypted_extensions: EncryptedExtensions;
case certificate_request: CertificateRequest;
case certificate: Certificate;
case certificate_verify: CertificateVerify;
case finished: Finished;
case new_session_ticket: NewSessionTicket;
case key_update: KeyUpdate;
};
} Handshake;
Protocol messages MUST be sent in the order defined in Section 4.4.1
and shown in the diagrams in Section 2. A peer which receives a
handshake message in an unexpected order MUST abort the handshake
with an "unexpected_message" alert.
New handshake message types are assigned by IANA as described in
Section 11.
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4.1. Key Exchange Messages
The key exchange messages are used to determine the security
capabilities of the client and the server and to establish shared
secrets, including the traffic keys used to protect the rest of the
handshake and the data.
4.1.1. Cryptographic Negotiation
In TLS, the cryptographic negotiation proceeds by the client offering
the following four sets of options in its ClientHello:
* A list of cipher suites which indicates the AEAD algorithm/HKDF
hash pairs which the client supports.
* A "supported_groups" (Section 4.2.7) extension which indicates the
(EC)DHE groups which the client supports and a "key_share"
(Section 4.2.8) extension which contains (EC)DHE shares for some
or all of these groups.
* A "signature_algorithms" (Section 4.2.3) extension which indicates
the signature algorithms which the client can accept. A
"signature_algorithms_cert" extension (Section 4.2.3) may also be
added to indicate certificate-specific signature algorithms.
* A "pre_shared_key" (Section 4.2.11) extension which contains a
list of symmetric key identities known to the client and a
"psk_key_exchange_modes" (Section 4.2.9) extension which indicates
the key exchange modes that may be used with PSKs.
If the server does not select a PSK, then the first three of these
options are entirely orthogonal: the server independently selects a
cipher suite, an (EC)DHE group and key share for key establishment,
and a signature algorithm/certificate pair to authenticate itself to
the client. If there is no overlap between the received
"supported_groups" and the groups supported by the server, then the
server MUST abort the handshake with a "handshake_failure" or an
"insufficient_security" alert.
If the server selects a PSK, then it MUST also select a key
establishment mode from the list indicated by the client's
"psk_key_exchange_modes" extension (at present, PSK alone or with
(EC)DHE). Note that if the PSK can be used without (EC)DHE, then
non-overlap in the "supported_groups" parameters need not be fatal,
as it is in the non-PSK case discussed in the previous paragraph.
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If the server selects an (EC)DHE group and the client did not offer a
compatible "key_share" extension in the initial ClientHello, the
server MUST respond with a HelloRetryRequest (Section 4.1.4) message.
If the server successfully selects parameters and does not require a
HelloRetryRequest, it indicates the selected parameters in the
ServerHello as follows:
* If PSK is being used, then the server will send a "pre_shared_key"
extension indicating the selected key.
* When (EC)DHE is in use, the server will also provide a "key_share"
extension. If PSK is not being used, then (EC)DHE and
certificate-based authentication are always used.
* When authenticating via a certificate, the server will send the
Certificate (Section 4.4.2) and CertificateVerify (Section 4.4.3)
messages. In TLS 1.3 as defined by this document, either a PSK or
a certificate is always used, but not both. Future documents may
define how to use them together.
If the server is unable to negotiate a supported set of parameters
(i.e., there is no overlap between the client and server parameters),
it MUST abort the handshake with either a "handshake_failure" or
"insufficient_security" fatal alert (see Section 6).
4.1.2. Client Hello
When a client first connects to a server, it is REQUIRED to send the
ClientHello as its first TLS message. The client will also send a
ClientHello when the server has responded to its ClientHello with a
HelloRetryRequest. In that case, the client MUST send the same
ClientHello without modification, except as follows:
* If a "key_share" extension was supplied in the HelloRetryRequest,
replacing the list of shares with a list containing a single
KeyShareEntry from the indicated group.
* Removing the "early_data" extension (Section 4.2.10) if one was
present. Early data is not permitted after a HelloRetryRequest.
* Including a "cookie" extension if one was provided in the
HelloRetryRequest.
* Updating the "pre_shared_key" extension if present by recomputing
the "obfuscated_ticket_age" and binder values and (optionally)
removing any PSKs which are incompatible with the server's
indicated cipher suite.
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* Optionally adding, removing, or changing the length of the
"padding" extension [RFC7685].
* Other modifications that may be allowed by an extension defined in
the future and present in the HelloRetryRequest.
Because TLS 1.3 forbids renegotiation, if a server has negotiated TLS
1.3 and receives a ClientHello at any other time, it MUST terminate
the connection with an "unexpected_message" alert.
If a server established a TLS connection with a previous version of
TLS and receives a TLS 1.3 ClientHello in a renegotiation, it MUST
retain the previous protocol version. In particular, it MUST NOT
negotiate TLS 1.3.
Structure of this message:
uint16 ProtocolVersion;
opaque Random[32];
uint8 CipherSuite[2]; /* Cryptographic suite selector */
struct {
ProtocolVersion legacy_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
Random random;
opaque legacy_session_id<0..32>;
CipherSuite cipher_suites<2..2^16-2>;
opaque legacy_compression_methods<1..2^8-1>;
Extension extensions<8..2^16-1>;
} ClientHello;
legacy_version: In previous versions of TLS, this field was used for
version negotiation and represented the highest version number
supported by the client. Experience has shown that many servers
do not properly implement version negotiation, leading to "version
intolerance" in which the server rejects an otherwise acceptable
ClientHello with a version number higher than it supports. In TLS
1.3, the client indicates its version preferences in the
"supported_versions" extension (Section 4.2.1) and the
legacy_version field MUST be set to 0x0303, which is the version
number for TLS 1.2. TLS 1.3 ClientHellos are identified as having
a legacy_version of 0x0303 and a supported_versions extension
present with 0x0304 as the highest version indicated therein.
(See Appendix E for details about backward compatibility.) A
server which receives a legacy_version value not equal to 0x0303
MUST abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
random: 32 bytes generated by a secure random number generator. See
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Appendix C for additional information.
legacy_session_id: Versions of TLS before TLS 1.3 supported a
"session resumption" feature which has been merged with pre-shared
keys in this version (see Section 2.2). A client which has a
cached session ID set by a pre-TLS 1.3 server SHOULD set this
field to that value. In compatibility mode (see Appendix E.4),
this field MUST be non-empty, so a client not offering a pre-TLS
1.3 session MUST generate a new 32-byte value. This value need
not be random but SHOULD be unpredictable to avoid implementations
fixating on a specific value (also known as ossification).
Otherwise, it MUST be set as a zero-length list (i.e., a zero-
valued single byte length field).
cipher_suites: A list of the symmetric cipher options supported by
the client, specifically the record protection algorithm
(including secret key length) and a hash to be used with HKDF, in
descending order of client preference. Values are defined in
Appendix B.4. If the list contains cipher suites that the server
does not recognize, support, or wish to use, the server MUST
ignore those cipher suites and process the remaining ones as
usual. If the client is attempting a PSK key establishment, it
SHOULD advertise at least one cipher suite indicating a Hash
associated with the PSK.
legacy_compression_methods: Versions of TLS before 1.3 supported
compression with the list of supported compression methods being
sent in this field. For every TLS 1.3 ClientHello, this list MUST
contain exactly one byte, set to zero, which corresponds to the
"null" compression method in prior versions of TLS. If a TLS 1.3
ClientHello is received with any other value in this field, the
server MUST abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
Note that TLS 1.3 servers might receive TLS 1.2 or prior
ClientHellos which contain other compression methods and (if
negotiating such a prior version) MUST follow the procedures for
the appropriate prior version of TLS.
extensions: Clients request extended functionality from servers by
sending data in the extensions field. The actual "Extension"
format is defined in Section 4.2. In TLS 1.3, the use of certain
extensions is mandatory, as functionality has moved into
extensions to preserve ClientHello compatibility with previous
versions of TLS. Servers MUST ignore unrecognized extensions.
All versions of TLS allow an extensions field to optionally follow
the compression_methods field. TLS 1.3 ClientHello messages always
contain extensions (minimally "supported_versions", otherwise, they
will be interpreted as TLS 1.2 ClientHello messages). However, TLS
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1.3 servers might receive ClientHello messages without an extensions
field from prior versions of TLS. The presence of extensions can be
detected by determining whether there are bytes following the
compression_methods field at the end of the ClientHello. Note that
this method of detecting optional data differs from the normal TLS
method of having a variable-length field, but it is used for
compatibility with TLS before extensions were defined. TLS 1.3
servers will need to perform this check first and only attempt to
negotiate TLS 1.3 if the "supported_versions" extension is present.
If negotiating a version of TLS prior to 1.3, a server MUST check
that the message either contains no data after
legacy_compression_methods or that it contains a valid extensions
block with no data following. If not, then it MUST abort the
handshake with a "decode_error" alert.
In the event that a client requests additional functionality using
extensions and this functionality is not supplied by the server, the
client MAY abort the handshake.
After sending the ClientHello message, the client waits for a
ServerHello or HelloRetryRequest message. If early data is in use,
the client may transmit early Application Data (Section 2.3) while
waiting for the next handshake message.
4.1.3. Server Hello
The server will send this message in response to a ClientHello
message to proceed with the handshake if it is able to negotiate an
acceptable set of handshake parameters based on the ClientHello.
Structure of this message:
struct {
ProtocolVersion legacy_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
Random random;
opaque legacy_session_id_echo<0..32>;
CipherSuite cipher_suite;
uint8 legacy_compression_method = 0;
Extension extensions<6..2^16-1>;
} ServerHello;
legacy_version: In previous versions of TLS, this field was used for
version negotiation and represented the selected version number
for the connection. Unfortunately, some middleboxes fail when
presented with new values. In TLS 1.3, the TLS server indicates
its version using the "supported_versions" extension
(Section 4.2.1), and the legacy_version field MUST be set to
0x0303, which is the version number for TLS 1.2. (See Appendix E
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for details about backward compatibility.) A client which
receives a TLS 1.3 Server Hello with a legacy_version value not
equal to 0x0303 MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
random: 32 bytes generated by a secure random number generator. See
Appendix C for additional information. The last 8 bytes MUST be
overwritten as described below if negotiating TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.1,
but the remaining bytes MUST be random. This structure is
generated by the server and MUST be generated independently of the
ClientHello.random.
legacy_session_id_echo: The contents of the client's
legacy_session_id field. Note that this field is echoed even if
the client's value corresponded to a cached pre-TLS 1.3 session
which the server has chosen not to resume. A client which
receives a legacy_session_id_echo field that does not match what
it sent in the ClientHello MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
cipher_suite: The single cipher suite selected by the server from
the ClientHello.cipher_suites list. A client which receives a
cipher suite that was not offered MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
legacy_compression_method: A single byte which MUST have the value
0. If a TLS 1.3 ClientHello is received with any other value in
this field, the server MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
extensions: A list of extensions. The ServerHello MUST only include
extensions which are required to establish the cryptographic
context and negotiate the protocol version. All TLS 1.3
ServerHello messages MUST contain the "supported_versions"
extension. Current ServerHello messages additionally contain
either the "pre_shared_key" extension or the "key_share"
extension, or both (when using a PSK with (EC)DHE key
establishment). Other extensions (see Section 4.2) are sent
separately in the EncryptedExtensions message.
For reasons of backward compatibility with middleboxes (see
Appendix E.4), the HelloRetryRequest message uses the same structure
as the ServerHello, but with Random set to the special value of the
SHA-256 of "HelloRetryRequest":
CF 21 AD 74 E5 9A 61 11 BE 1D 8C 02 1E 65 B8 91
C2 A2 11 16 7A BB 8C 5E 07 9E 09 E2 C8 A8 33 9C
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Upon receiving a message with type server_hello, implementations MUST
first examine the Random value and, if it matches this value, process
it as described in Section 4.1.4).
TLS 1.3 has a downgrade protection mechanism embedded in the server's
random value. TLS 1.3 servers which negotiate TLS 1.2 or below in
response to a ClientHello MUST set the last 8 bytes of their Random
value specially in their ServerHello.
If negotiating TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3 servers MUST set the last 8 bytes of
their Random value to the bytes:
44 4F 57 4E 47 52 44 01
[RFC8996] and Appendix E.5 forbid the negotiation of TLS versions
below 1.2. However, server implementations which do not follow that
guidance MUST set the last 8 bytes of their ServerHello.random value
to the bytes:
44 4F 57 4E 47 52 44 00
TLS 1.3 clients receiving a ServerHello indicating TLS 1.2 or below
MUST check that the last 8 bytes are not equal to either of these
values. TLS 1.2 clients SHOULD also check that the last 8 bytes are
not equal to the second value if the ServerHello indicates TLS 1.1 or
below. If a match is found, the client MUST abort the handshake with
an "illegal_parameter" alert. This mechanism provides limited
protection against downgrade attacks over and above what is provided
by the Finished exchange: because the ServerKeyExchange, a message
present in TLS 1.2 and below, includes a signature over both random
values, it is not possible for an active attacker to modify the
random values without detection as long as ephemeral ciphers are
used. It does not provide downgrade protection when static RSA is
used.
Note: This is a change from [RFC5246], so in practice many TLS 1.2
clients and servers will not behave as specified above.
A legacy TLS client performing renegotiation with TLS 1.2 or prior
and which receives a TLS 1.3 ServerHello during renegotiation MUST
abort the handshake with a "protocol_version" alert. Note that
renegotiation is not possible when TLS 1.3 has been negotiated.
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4.1.4. Hello Retry Request
The server will send this message in response to a ClientHello
message if it is able to find an acceptable set of parameters but the
ClientHello does not contain sufficient information to proceed with
the handshake. As discussed in Section 4.1.3, the HelloRetryRequest
has the same format as a ServerHello message, and the legacy_version,
legacy_session_id_echo, cipher_suite, and legacy_compression_method
fields have the same meaning. However, for convenience we discuss
"HelloRetryRequest" throughout this document as if it were a distinct
message.
The server's extensions MUST contain "supported_versions".
Additionally, it SHOULD contain the minimal set of extensions
necessary for the client to generate a correct ClientHello pair. As
with the ServerHello, a HelloRetryRequest MUST NOT contain any
extensions that were not first offered by the client in its
ClientHello, with the exception of optionally the "cookie" (see
Section 4.2.2) extension.
Upon receipt of a HelloRetryRequest, the client MUST check the
legacy_version, legacy_session_id_echo, cipher_suite, and
legacy_compression_method as specified in Section 4.1.3 and then
process the extensions, starting with determining the version using
"supported_versions". Clients MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert if the HelloRetryRequest would not result
in any change in the ClientHello. If a client receives a second
HelloRetryRequest in the same connection (i.e., where the ClientHello
was itself in response to a HelloRetryRequest), it MUST abort the
handshake with an "unexpected_message" alert.
Otherwise, the client MUST process all extensions in the
HelloRetryRequest and send a second updated ClientHello. The
HelloRetryRequest extensions defined in this specification are:
* supported_versions (see Section 4.2.1)
* cookie (see Section 4.2.2)
* key_share (see Section 4.2.8)
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A client which receives a cipher suite that was not offered MUST
abort the handshake. Servers MUST ensure that they negotiate the
same cipher suite when receiving a conformant updated ClientHello (if
the server selects the cipher suite as the first step in the
negotiation, then this will happen automatically). Upon receiving
the ServerHello, clients MUST check that the cipher suite supplied in
the ServerHello is the same as that in the HelloRetryRequest and
otherwise abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
In addition, in its updated ClientHello, the client SHOULD NOT offer
any pre-shared keys associated with a hash other than that of the
selected cipher suite. This allows the client to avoid having to
compute partial hash transcripts for multiple hashes in the second
ClientHello.
The value of selected_version in the HelloRetryRequest
"supported_versions" extension MUST be retained in the ServerHello,
and a client MUST abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter"
alert if the value changes.
4.2. Extensions
A number of TLS messages contain tag-length-value encoded extensions
structures.
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struct {
ExtensionType extension_type;
opaque extension_data<0..2^16-1>;
} Extension;
enum {
server_name(0), /* RFC 6066 */
max_fragment_length(1), /* RFC 6066 */
status_request(5), /* RFC 6066 */
supported_groups(10), /* RFC 8422, 7919 */
signature_algorithms(13), /* RFC 8446 */
use_srtp(14), /* RFC 5764 */
heartbeat(15), /* RFC 6520 */
application_layer_protocol_negotiation(16), /* RFC 7301 */
signed_certificate_timestamp(18), /* RFC 6962 */
client_certificate_type(19), /* RFC 7250 */
server_certificate_type(20), /* RFC 7250 */
padding(21), /* RFC 7685 */
pre_shared_key(41), /* RFC 8446 */
early_data(42), /* RFC 8446 */
supported_versions(43), /* RFC 8446 */
cookie(44), /* RFC 8446 */
psk_key_exchange_modes(45), /* RFC 8446 */
certificate_authorities(47), /* RFC 8446 */
oid_filters(48), /* RFC 8446 */
post_handshake_auth(49), /* RFC 8446 */
signature_algorithms_cert(50), /* RFC 8446 */
key_share(51), /* RFC 8446 */
(65535)
} ExtensionType;
Here:
* "extension_type" identifies the particular extension type.
* "extension_data" contains information specific to the particular
extension type.
The contents of the "extension_data" field are typically defined by
an extension-specific structure defined in the TLS presentation
language. Unless otherwise specified, trailing data is forbidden.
That is, senders MUST NOT include data after the structure in the
"extension_data" field. When processing an extension, receivers MUST
abort the handshake with a "decode_error" alert if there is data left
over after parsing the structure. This does not apply if the
receiver does not implement or is configured to ignore an extension.
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The list of extension types is maintained by IANA as described in
Section 11.
Extensions are generally structured in a request/response fashion,
though some extensions are just requests with no corresponding
response (i.e., indications). The client sends its extension
requests in the ClientHello message, and the server sends its
extension responses in the ServerHello, EncryptedExtensions,
HelloRetryRequest, and Certificate messages. The server sends
extension requests in the CertificateRequest message which a client
MAY respond to with a Certificate message. The server MAY also send
unsolicited extensions in the NewSessionTicket, though the client
does not respond directly to these.
Implementations MUST NOT send extension responses (i.e., in the
ServerHello, EncryptedExtensions, HelloRetryRequest, and Certificate
messages) if the remote endpoint did not send the corresponding
extension requests, with the exception of the "cookie" extension in
the HelloRetryRequest. Upon receiving such an extension, an endpoint
MUST abort the handshake with an "unsupported_extension" alert.
The table below indicates the messages where a given extension may
appear, using the following notation: CH (ClientHello), SH
(ServerHello), EE (EncryptedExtensions), CT (Certificate), CR
(CertificateRequest), NST (NewSessionTicket), and HRR
(HelloRetryRequest). If an implementation receives an extension
which it recognizes and which is not specified for the message in
which it appears, it MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
+==================================================+=============+
| Extension | TLS 1.3 |
+==================================================+=============+
| server_name [RFC6066] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| max_fragment_length [RFC6066] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| status_request [RFC6066] | CH, CR, CT |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| supported_groups [RFC7919] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| signature_algorithms [RFC8446] | CH, CR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| use_srtp [RFC5764] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| heartbeat [RFC6520] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| application_layer_protocol_negotiation [RFC7301] | CH, EE |
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+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| signed_certificate_timestamp [RFC6962] | CH, CR, CT |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| client_certificate_type [RFC7250] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| server_certificate_type [RFC7250] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| padding [RFC7685] | CH |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| cached_info [RFC7924] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| compress_certificate [RFC8879] | CH, CR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| record_size_limit [RFC8849] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| delegated_credentials [RFC9345] | CH, CR, CT |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| supported_ekt_ciphers [RFC8870] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| pre_shared_key [RFC8446] | CH, SH |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| early_data [RFC8446] | CH, EE, NST |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| psk_key_exchange_modes [RFC8446] | CH |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| cookie [RFC8446] | CH, HRR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| supported_versions [RFC8446] | CH, SH, HRR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| certificate_authorities [RFC8446] | CH, CR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| oid_filters [RFC8446] | CR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| post_handshake_auth [RFC8446] | CH |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| signature_algorithms_cert [RFC8446] | CH, CR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| key_share [RFC8446] | CH, SH, HRR |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| transparency_info [RFC9162] | CH, CR, CT |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| connection_id [RFC9146] | CH, SH |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| external_id_hash [RFC8844] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| external_session_id [RFC8844] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| quic_transport_parameters [RFC9001] | CH, EE |
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+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
| ticket_request [RFC9149] | CH, EE |
+--------------------------------------------------+-------------+
Table 1: TLS Extensions
Note: this table includes only extensions marked "Recommended" at the
time of this writing.
When multiple extensions of different types are present, the
extensions MAY appear in any order, with the exception of
"pre_shared_key" (Section 4.2.11) which MUST be the last extension in
the ClientHello (but can appear anywhere in the ServerHello
extensions block). There MUST NOT be more than one extension of the
same type in a given extension block.
In TLS 1.3, unlike TLS 1.2, extensions are negotiated for each
handshake even when in resumption-PSK mode. However, 0-RTT
parameters are those negotiated in the previous handshake; mismatches
may require rejecting 0-RTT (see Section 4.2.10).
There are subtle (and not so subtle) interactions that may occur in
this protocol between new features and existing features which may
result in a significant reduction in overall security. The following
considerations should be taken into account when designing new
extensions:
* Some cases where a server does not agree to an extension are error
conditions (e.g., the handshake cannot continue), and some are
simply refusals to support particular features. In general, error
alerts should be used for the former and a field in the server
extension response for the latter.
* Extensions should, as far as possible, be designed to prevent any
attack that forces use (or non-use) of a particular feature by
manipulation of handshake messages. This principle should be
followed regardless of whether the feature is believed to cause a
security problem. Often the fact that the extension fields are
included in the inputs to the Finished message hashes will be
sufficient, but extreme care is needed when the extension changes
the meaning of messages sent in the handshake phase. Designers
and implementors should be aware of the fact that until the
handshake has been authenticated, active attackers can modify
messages and insert, remove, or replace extensions.
4.2.1. Supported Versions
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struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello:
ProtocolVersion versions<2..254>;
case server_hello: /* and HelloRetryRequest */
ProtocolVersion selected_version;
};
} SupportedVersions;
The "supported_versions" extension is used by the client to indicate
which versions of TLS it supports and by the server to indicate which
version it is using. The extension contains a list of supported
versions in preference order, with the most preferred version first.
Implementations of this specification MUST send this extension in the
ClientHello containing all versions of TLS which they are prepared to
negotiate (for this specification, that means minimally 0x0304, but
if previous versions of TLS are allowed to be negotiated, they MUST
be present as well).
If this extension is not present, servers which are compliant with
this specification and which also support TLS 1.2 MUST negotiate TLS
1.2 or prior as specified in [RFC5246], even if
ClientHello.legacy_version is 0x0304 or later. Servers MAY abort the
handshake upon receiving a ClientHello with legacy_version 0x0304 or
later.
If this extension is present in the ClientHello, servers MUST NOT use
the ClientHello.legacy_version value for version negotiation and MUST
use only the "supported_versions" extension to determine client
preferences. Servers MUST only select a version of TLS present in
that extension and MUST ignore any unknown versions that are present
in that extension. Note that this mechanism makes it possible to
negotiate a version prior to TLS 1.2 if one side supports a sparse
range. Implementations of TLS 1.3 which choose to support prior
versions of TLS SHOULD support TLS 1.2. Servers MUST be prepared to
receive ClientHellos that include this extension but do not include
0x0304 in the list of versions.
A server which negotiates a version of TLS prior to TLS 1.3 MUST set
ServerHello.version and MUST NOT send the "supported_versions"
extension. A server which negotiates TLS 1.3 MUST respond by sending
a "supported_versions" extension containing the selected version
value (0x0304). It MUST set the ServerHello.legacy_version field to
0x0303 (TLS 1.2).
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After checking ServerHello.random to determine if the server
handshake message is a ServerHello or HelloRetryRequest, clients MUST
check for this extension prior to processing the rest of the
ServerHello. This will require clients to parse the ServerHello in
order to read the extension. If this extension is present, clients
MUST ignore the ServerHello.legacy_version value and MUST use only
the "supported_versions" extension to determine the selected version.
If the "supported_versions" extension in the ServerHello contains a
version not offered by the client or contains a version prior to TLS
1.3, the client MUST abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter"
alert.
4.2.2. Cookie
struct {
opaque cookie<1..2^16-1>;
} Cookie;
Cookies serve two primary purposes:
* Allowing the server to force the client to demonstrate
reachability at their apparent network address (thus providing a
measure of DoS protection). This is primarily useful for non-
connection-oriented transports (see [RFC6347] for an example of
this).
* Allowing the server to offload state to the client, thus allowing
it to send a HelloRetryRequest without storing any state. The
server can do this by storing the hash of the ClientHello in the
HelloRetryRequest cookie (protected with some suitable integrity
protection algorithm).
When sending a HelloRetryRequest, the server MAY provide a "cookie"
extension to the client (this is an exception to the usual rule that
the only extensions that may be sent are those that appear in the
ClientHello). When sending the new ClientHello, the client MUST copy
the contents of the extension received in the HelloRetryRequest into
a "cookie" extension in the new ClientHello. Clients MUST NOT use
cookies in their initial ClientHello in subsequent connections.
When a server is operating statelessly, it may receive an unprotected
record of type change_cipher_spec between the first and second
ClientHello (see Section 5). Since the server is not storing any
state, this will appear as if it were the first message to be
received. Servers operating statelessly MUST ignore these records.
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4.2.3. Signature Algorithms
TLS 1.3 provides two extensions for indicating which signature
algorithms may be used in digital signatures. The
"signature_algorithms_cert" extension applies to signatures in
certificates, and the "signature_algorithms" extension, which
originally appeared in TLS 1.2, applies to signatures in
CertificateVerify messages. The keys found in certificates MUST also
be of appropriate type for the signature algorithms they are used
with. This is a particular issue for RSA keys and PSS signatures, as
described below. If no "signature_algorithms_cert" extension is
present, then the "signature_algorithms" extension also applies to
signatures appearing in certificates. Clients which desire the
server to authenticate itself via a certificate MUST send the
"signature_algorithms" extension. If a server is authenticating via
a certificate and the client has not sent a "signature_algorithms"
extension, then the server MUST abort the handshake with a
"missing_extension" alert (see Section 9.2).
The "signature_algorithms_cert" extension was added to allow
implementations which supported different sets of algorithms for
certificates and in TLS itself to clearly signal their capabilities.
TLS 1.2 implementations SHOULD also process this extension.
Implementations which have the same policy in both cases MAY omit the
"signature_algorithms_cert" extension.
The "extension_data" field of these extensions contains a
SignatureSchemeList value:
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enum {
/* RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 algorithms */
rsa_pkcs1_sha256(0x0401),
rsa_pkcs1_sha384(0x0501),
rsa_pkcs1_sha512(0x0601),
/* ECDSA algorithms */
ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256(0x0403),
ecdsa_secp384r1_sha384(0x0503),
ecdsa_secp521r1_sha512(0x0603),
/* RSASSA-PSS algorithms with public key OID rsaEncryption */
rsa_pss_rsae_sha256(0x0804),
rsa_pss_rsae_sha384(0x0805),
rsa_pss_rsae_sha512(0x0806),
/* EdDSA algorithms */
ed25519(0x0807),
ed448(0x0808),
/* RSASSA-PSS algorithms with public key OID RSASSA-PSS */
rsa_pss_pss_sha256(0x0809),
rsa_pss_pss_sha384(0x080a),
rsa_pss_pss_sha512(0x080b),
/* Legacy algorithms */
rsa_pkcs1_sha1(0x0201),
ecdsa_sha1(0x0203),
/* Reserved Code Points */
private_use(0xFE00..0xFFFF),
(0xFFFF)
} SignatureScheme;
struct {
SignatureScheme supported_signature_algorithms<2..2^16-2>;
} SignatureSchemeList;
Note: This enum is named "SignatureScheme" because there is already a
"SignatureAlgorithm" type in TLS 1.2, which this replaces. We use
the term "signature algorithm" throughout the text.
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Each SignatureScheme value lists a single signature algorithm that
the client is willing to verify. The values are indicated in
descending order of preference. Note that a signature algorithm
takes as input an arbitrary-length message, rather than a digest.
Algorithms which traditionally act on a digest should be defined in
TLS to first hash the input with a specified hash algorithm and then
proceed as usual. The code point groups listed above have the
following meanings:
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 algorithms: Indicates a signature algorithm using
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 [RFC8017] with the corresponding hash algorithm
as defined in [SHS]. These values refer solely to signatures
which appear in certificates (see Section 4.4.2.2) and are not
defined for use in signed TLS handshake messages, although they
MAY appear in "signature_algorithms" and
"signature_algorithms_cert" for backward compatibility with TLS
1.2.
ECDSA algorithms: Indicates a signature algorithm using ECDSA [DSS],
the corresponding curve as defined in NIST SP 800-186 [ECDP], and
the corresponding hash algorithm as defined in [SHS]. The
signature is represented as a DER-encoded [X690] ECDSA-Sig-Value
structure as defined in [RFC4492].
RSASSA-PSS RSAE algorithms: Indicates a signature algorithm using
RSASSA-PSS with a mask generation function of MGF1, as defined in
[RFC8017]. The digest used in MGF1 and the digest being signed
are both the corresponding hash algorithm as defined in [SHS].
The length of the Salt MUST be equal to the length of the output
of the digest algorithm. If the public key is carried in an X.509
certificate, it MUST use the rsaEncryption OID [RFC5280].
EdDSA algorithms: Indicates a signature algorithm using EdDSA as
defined in [RFC8032] or its successors. Note that these
correspond to the "PureEdDSA" algorithms and not the "prehash"
variants.
RSASSA-PSS PSS algorithms: Indicates a signature algorithm using
RSASSA-PSS with a mask generation function of MGF1, as defined in
[RFC8017]. The digest used in MGF1 and the digest being signed
are both the corresponding hash algorithm as defined in [SHS].
The length of the Salt MUST be equal to the length of the digest
algorithm. If the public key is carried in an X.509 certificate,
it MUST use the RSASSA-PSS OID [RFC5756]. When used in
certificate signatures, the algorithm parameters MUST be DER
encoded. If the corresponding public key's parameters are
present, then the parameters in the signature MUST be identical to
those in the public key.
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Legacy algorithms: Indicates algorithms which are being deprecated
because they use algorithms with known weaknesses, specifically
SHA-1 which is used in this context with either (1) RSA using
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 or (2) ECDSA. These values refer solely to
signatures which appear in certificates (see Section 4.4.2.2) and
are not defined for use in signed TLS handshake messages, although
they MAY appear in "signature_algorithms" and
"signature_algorithms_cert" for backward compatibility with TLS
1.2. Endpoints SHOULD NOT negotiate these algorithms but are
permitted to do so solely for backward compatibility. Clients
offering these values MUST list them as the lowest priority
(listed after all other algorithms in SignatureSchemeList). TLS
1.3 servers MUST NOT offer a SHA-1 signed certificate unless no
valid certificate chain can be produced without it (see
Section 4.4.2.2).
The signatures on certificates that are self-signed or certificates
that are trust anchors are not validated, since they begin a
certification path (see [RFC5280], Section 3.2). A certificate that
begins a certification path MAY use a signature algorithm that is not
advertised as being supported in the "signature_algorithms" and
"signature_algorithms_cert" extensions.
Note that TLS 1.2 defines this extension differently. TLS 1.3
implementations willing to negotiate TLS 1.2 MUST behave in
accordance with the requirements of [RFC5246] when negotiating that
version. In particular:
* TLS 1.2 ClientHellos MAY omit this extension.
* In TLS 1.2, the extension contained hash/signature pairs. The
pairs are encoded in two octets, so SignatureScheme values have
been allocated to align with TLS 1.2's encoding. Some legacy
pairs are left unallocated. These algorithms are deprecated as of
TLS 1.3. They MUST NOT be offered or negotiated by any
implementation. In particular, MD5 [SLOTH], SHA-224, and DSA MUST
NOT be used.
* ECDSA signature schemes align with TLS 1.2's ECDSA hash/signature
pairs. However, the old semantics did not constrain the signing
curve. If TLS 1.2 is negotiated, implementations MUST be prepared
to accept a signature that uses any curve that they advertised in
the "supported_groups" extension.
* Implementations that advertise support for RSASSA-PSS (which is
mandatory in TLS 1.3) MUST be prepared to accept a signature using
that scheme even when TLS 1.2 is negotiated. In TLS 1.2, RSASSA-
PSS is used with RSA cipher suites.
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4.2.4. Certificate Authorities
The "certificate_authorities" extension is used to indicate the
certificate authorities (CAs) which an endpoint supports and which
SHOULD be used by the receiving endpoint to guide certificate
selection.
The body of the "certificate_authorities" extension consists of a
CertificateAuthoritiesExtension structure.
opaque DistinguishedName<1..2^16-1>;
struct {
DistinguishedName authorities<3..2^16-1>;
} CertificateAuthoritiesExtension;
authorities: A list of the distinguished names [X501] of acceptable
certificate authorities, represented in DER-encoded [X690] format.
These distinguished names specify a desired distinguished name for
a trust anchor or subordinate CA; thus, this message can be used
to describe known trust anchors as well as a desired authorization
space.
The client MAY send the "certificate_authorities" extension in the
ClientHello message. The server MAY send it in the
CertificateRequest message.
The "trusted_ca_keys" extension [RFC6066], which serves a similar
purpose, but is more complicated, is not used in TLS 1.3 (although it
may appear in ClientHello messages from clients which are offering
prior versions of TLS).
4.2.5. OID Filters
The "oid_filters" extension allows servers to provide a list of OID/
value pairs which it would like the client's certificate to match.
This extension, if provided by the server, MUST only be sent in the
CertificateRequest message.
struct {
opaque certificate_extension_oid<1..2^8-1>;
opaque certificate_extension_values<0..2^16-1>;
} OIDFilter;
struct {
OIDFilter filters<0..2^16-1>;
} OIDFilterExtension;
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filters: A list of certificate extension OIDs [RFC5280] with their
allowed value(s) and represented in DER-encoded [X690] format.
Some certificate extension OIDs allow multiple values (e.g.,
Extended Key Usage). If the server has included a non-empty
filters list, the client certificate included in the response MUST
contain all of the specified extension OIDs that the client
recognizes. For each extension OID recognized by the client, all
of the specified values MUST be present in the client certificate
(but the certificate MAY have other values as well). However, the
client MUST ignore and skip any unrecognized certificate extension
OIDs. If the client ignored some of the required certificate
extension OIDs and supplied a certificate that does not satisfy
the request, the server MAY at its discretion either continue the
connection without client authentication or abort the handshake
with an "unsupported_certificate" alert. Any given OID MUST NOT
appear more than once in the filters list.
PKIX RFCs define a variety of certificate extension OIDs and their
corresponding value types. Depending on the type, matching
certificate extension values are not necessarily bitwise-equal. It
is expected that TLS implementations will rely on their PKI libraries
to perform certificate selection using certificate extension OIDs.
This document defines matching rules for two standard certificate
extensions defined in [RFC5280]:
* The Key Usage extension in a certificate matches the request when
all key usage bits asserted in the request are also asserted in
the Key Usage certificate extension.
* The Extended Key Usage extension in a certificate matches the
request when all key purpose OIDs present in the request are also
found in the Extended Key Usage certificate extension. The
special anyExtendedKeyUsage OID MUST NOT be used in the request.
Separate specifications may define matching rules for other
certificate extensions.
4.2.6. Post-Handshake Certificate-Based Client Authentication
The "post_handshake_auth" extension is used to indicate that a client
is willing to perform post-handshake authentication (Section 4.6.2).
Servers MUST NOT send a post-handshake CertificateRequest to clients
which do not offer this extension. Servers MUST NOT send this
extension.
struct {} PostHandshakeAuth;
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The "extension_data" field of the "post_handshake_auth" extension is
zero length.
4.2.7. Supported Groups
When sent by the client, the "supported_groups" extension indicates
the named groups which the client supports for key exchange, ordered
from most preferred to least preferred.
Note: In versions of TLS prior to TLS 1.3, this extension was named
"elliptic_curves" and only contained elliptic curve groups. See
[RFC8422] and [RFC7919]. This extension was also used to negotiate
ECDSA curves. Signature algorithms are now negotiated independently
(see Section 4.2.3).
The "extension_data" field of this extension contains a
"NamedGroupList" value:
enum {
/* Elliptic Curve Groups (ECDHE) */
secp256r1(0x0017), secp384r1(0x0018), secp521r1(0x0019),
x25519(0x001D), x448(0x001E),
/* Finite Field Groups (DHE) */
ffdhe2048(0x0100), ffdhe3072(0x0101), ffdhe4096(0x0102),
ffdhe6144(0x0103), ffdhe8192(0x0104),
/* Reserved Code Points */
ffdhe_private_use(0x01FC..0x01FF),
ecdhe_private_use(0xFE00..0xFEFF),
(0xFFFF)
} NamedGroup;
struct {
NamedGroup named_group_list<2..2^16-1>;
} NamedGroupList;
Elliptic Curve Groups (ECDHE): Indicates support for the
corresponding named curve, defined in either NIST SP 800-186
[ECDP] or in [RFC7748]. Values 0xFE00 through 0xFEFF are reserved
for Private Use [RFC8126].
Finite Field Groups (DHE): Indicates support for the corresponding
finite field group, defined in [RFC7919]. Values 0x01FC through
0x01FF are reserved for Private Use.
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Items in "named_group_list" are ordered according to the sender's
preferences (most preferred choice first). The "named_group_list"
MUST NOT contain any duplicate entries. A recipient MAY abort a
connection with a fatal illegal_parameter alert if it detects a
duplicate entry.
As of TLS 1.3, servers are permitted to send the "supported_groups"
extension to the client. Clients MUST NOT act upon any information
found in "supported_groups" prior to successful completion of the
handshake but MAY use the information learned from a successfully
completed handshake to change what groups they use in their
"key_share" extension in subsequent connections. If the server has a
group it prefers to the ones in the "key_share" extension but is
still willing to accept the ClientHello, it SHOULD send
"supported_groups" to update the client's view of its preferences;
this extension SHOULD contain all groups the server supports,
regardless of whether they are currently supported by the client.
4.2.8. Key Share
The "key_share" extension contains the endpoint's cryptographic
parameters.
Clients MAY send an empty client_shares list in order to request
group selection from the server, at the cost of an additional round
trip (see Section 4.1.4).
struct {
NamedGroup group;
opaque key_exchange<1..2^16-1>;
} KeyShareEntry;
group: The named group for the key being exchanged.
key_exchange: Key exchange information. The contents of this field
are determined by the specified group and its corresponding
definition. Finite Field Diffie-Hellman [DH76] parameters are
described in Section 4.2.8.1; Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
parameters are described in Section 4.2.8.2.
In the ClientHello message, the "extension_data" field of this
extension contains a "KeyShareClientHello" value:
struct {
KeyShareEntry client_shares<0..2^16-1>;
} KeyShareClientHello;
client_shares: A list of offered KeyShareEntry values in descending
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order of client preference.
This list MAY be empty if the client is requesting a
HelloRetryRequest. Each KeyShareEntry value MUST correspond to a
group offered in the "supported_groups" extension and MUST appear in
the same order. However, the values MAY be a non-contiguous subset
of the "supported_groups" extension and MAY omit the most preferred
groups. Such a situation could arise if the most preferred groups
are new and unlikely to be supported in enough places to make
pregenerating key shares for them efficient.
For this reason, the omission of a share for group A and inclusion of
one for group B does not mean that the client prefers B to A.
Selecting a group based on KeyShareEntry may result in the use of a
less preferred group than the client and server mutually support,
though saving the round trip of HelloRetryRequest. Servers that wish
to respect the client's group preferences SHOULD first select a group
based "supported_groups" and then either send a ServerHello or a
HelloRetryRequest depending on the contents of KeyshareClienthello.
Clients can offer as many KeyShareEntry values as the number of
supported groups it is offering, each representing a single set of
key exchange parameters. For instance, a client might offer shares
for several elliptic curves or multiple FFDHE groups. The
key_exchange values for each KeyShareEntry MUST be generated
independently. Clients MUST NOT offer multiple KeyShareEntry values
for the same group. Clients MUST NOT offer any KeyShareEntry values
for groups not listed in the client's "supported_groups" extension.
Servers MAY check for violations of these rules and abort the
handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert if one is violated.
In a HelloRetryRequest message, the "extension_data" field of this
extension contains a KeyShareHelloRetryRequest value:
struct {
NamedGroup selected_group;
} KeyShareHelloRetryRequest;
selected_group: The mutually supported group the server intends to
negotiate and is requesting a retried ClientHello/KeyShare for.
Upon receipt of this extension in a HelloRetryRequest, the client
MUST verify that (1) the selected_group field corresponds to a group
which was provided in the "supported_groups" extension in the
original ClientHello and (2) the selected_group field does not
correspond to a group which was provided in the "key_share" extension
in the original ClientHello. If either of these checks fails, then
the client MUST abort the handshake with an "illegal_parameter"
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alert. Otherwise, when sending the new ClientHello, the client MUST
replace the original "key_share" extension with one containing only a
new KeyShareEntry for the group indicated in the selected_group field
of the triggering HelloRetryRequest.
In a ServerHello message, the "extension_data" field of this
extension contains a KeyShareServerHello value:
struct {
KeyShareEntry server_share;
} KeyShareServerHello;
server_share: A single KeyShareEntry value that is in the same group
as one of the client's shares.
If using (EC)DHE key establishment, servers offer exactly one
KeyShareEntry in the ServerHello. This value MUST be in the same
group as the KeyShareEntry value offered by the client that the
server has selected for the negotiated key exchange. Servers MUST
NOT send a KeyShareEntry for any group not indicated in the client's
"supported_groups" extension and MUST NOT send a KeyShareEntry when
using the "psk_ke" PskKeyExchangeMode. If using (EC)DHE key
establishment and a HelloRetryRequest containing a "key_share"
extension was received by the client, the client MUST verify that the
selected NamedGroup in the ServerHello is the same as that in the
HelloRetryRequest. If this check fails, the client MUST abort the
handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
4.2.8.1. Diffie-Hellman Parameters
Diffie-Hellman [DH76] parameters for both clients and servers are
encoded in the opaque key_exchange field of a KeyShareEntry in a
KeyShare structure. The opaque value contains the Diffie-Hellman
public value (Y = g^X mod p) for the specified group (see [RFC7919]
for group definitions) encoded as a big-endian integer and padded to
the left with zeros to the size of p in bytes.
Note: For a given Diffie-Hellman group, the padding results in all
public keys having the same length.
Peers MUST validate each other's public key Y by ensuring that 1 < Y
< p-1. This check ensures that the remote peer is properly behaved
and isn't forcing the local system into a small subgroup.
4.2.8.2. ECDHE Parameters
ECDHE parameters for both clients and servers are encoded in the
opaque key_exchange field of a KeyShareEntry in a KeyShare structure.
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For secp256r1, secp384r1, and secp521r1, the contents are the
serialized value of the following struct:
struct {
uint8 legacy_form = 4;
opaque X[coordinate_length];
opaque Y[coordinate_length];
} UncompressedPointRepresentation;
X and Y, respectively, are the binary representations of the x and y
values in network byte order. There are no internal length markers,
so each number representation occupies as many octets as implied by
the curve parameters. For P-256, this means that each of X and Y use
32 octets, padded on the left by zeros if necessary. For P-384, they
take 48 octets each. For P-521, they take 66 octets each.
For the curves secp256r1, secp384r1, and secp521r1, peers MUST
validate each other's public value Q by ensuring that the point is a
valid point on the elliptic curve. The appropriate validation
procedures are defined in Appendix D.1 of [ECDP] and alternatively in
Section 5.6.2.3 of [KEYAGREEMENT]. This process consists of three
steps: (1) verify that Q is not the point at infinity (O), (2) verify
that for Q = (x, y) both integers x and y are in the correct
interval, and (3) ensure that (x, y) is a correct solution to the
elliptic curve equation. For these curves, implementors do not need
to verify membership in the correct subgroup.
For X25519 and X448, the contents of the public value is the K_A or
K_B value described in Section 6 of [RFC7748]. This is 32 bytes for
X25519 and 56 bytes for X448.
Note: Versions of TLS prior to 1.3 permitted point format
negotiation; TLS 1.3 removes this feature in favor of a single point
format for each curve.
4.2.9. Pre-Shared Key Exchange Modes
In order to use PSKs, clients MUST also send a
"psk_key_exchange_modes" extension. The semantics of this extension
are that the client only supports the use of PSKs with these modes,
which restricts both the use of PSKs offered in this ClientHello and
those which the server might supply via NewSessionTicket.
A client MUST provide a "psk_key_exchange_modes" extension if it
offers a "pre_shared_key" extension. If clients offer
"pre_shared_key" without a "psk_key_exchange_modes" extension,
servers MUST abort the handshake. Servers MUST NOT select a key
exchange mode that is not listed by the client. This extension also
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restricts the modes for use with PSK resumption. Servers SHOULD NOT
send NewSessionTicket with tickets that are not compatible with the
advertised modes; however, if a server does so, the impact will just
be that the client's attempts at resumption fail.
The server MUST NOT send a "psk_key_exchange_modes" extension.
enum { psk_ke(0), psk_dhe_ke(1), (255) } PskKeyExchangeMode;
struct {
PskKeyExchangeMode ke_modes<1..255>;
} PskKeyExchangeModes;
psk_ke: PSK-only key establishment. In this mode, the server MUST
NOT supply a "key_share" value.
psk_dhe_ke: PSK with (EC)DHE key establishment. In this mode, the
client and server MUST supply "key_share" values as described in
Section 4.2.8.
Any future values that are allocated must ensure that the transmitted
protocol messages unambiguously identify which mode was selected by
the server; at present, this is indicated by the presence of the
"key_share" in the ServerHello.
4.2.10. Early Data Indication
When a PSK is used and early data is allowed for that PSK (see for
instance Appendix B.3.4), the client can send Application Data in its
first flight of messages. If the client opts to do so, it MUST
supply both the "pre_shared_key" and "early_data" extensions.
The "extension_data" field of this extension contains an
"EarlyDataIndication" value.
struct {} Empty;
struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case new_session_ticket: uint32 max_early_data_size;
case client_hello: Empty;
case encrypted_extensions: Empty;
};
} EarlyDataIndication;
See Section 4.6.1 for details regarding the use of the
max_early_data_size field.
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The parameters for the 0-RTT data (version, symmetric cipher suite,
Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) [RFC7301] protocol,
etc.) are those associated with the PSK in use. For externally
provisioned PSKs, the associated values are those provisioned along
with the key. For PSKs established via a NewSessionTicket message,
the associated values are those which were negotiated in the
connection which established the PSK. The PSK used to encrypt the
early data MUST be the first PSK listed in the client's
"pre_shared_key" extension.
For PSKs provisioned via NewSessionTicket, a server MUST validate
that the ticket age for the selected PSK identity (computed by
subtracting ticket_age_add from PskIdentity.obfuscated_ticket_age
modulo 2^32) is within a small tolerance of the time since the ticket
was issued (see Section 8). If it is not, the server SHOULD proceed
with the handshake but reject 0-RTT, and SHOULD NOT take any other
action that assumes that this ClientHello is fresh.
0-RTT messages sent in the first flight have the same (encrypted)
content types as messages of the same type sent in other flights
(handshake and application_data) but are protected under different
keys. After receiving the server's Finished message, if the server
has accepted early data, an EndOfEarlyData message will be sent to
indicate the key change. This message will be encrypted with the
0-RTT traffic keys.
A server which receives an "early_data" extension MUST behave in one
of three ways:
* Ignore the extension and return a regular 1-RTT response. The
server then skips past early data by attempting to deprotect
received records using the handshake traffic key, discarding
records which fail deprotection (up to the configured
max_early_data_size). Once a record is deprotected successfully,
it is treated as the start of the client's second flight and the
server proceeds as with an ordinary 1-RTT handshake.
* Request that the client send another ClientHello by responding
with a HelloRetryRequest. A client MUST NOT include the
"early_data" extension in its followup ClientHello. The server
then ignores early data by skipping all records with an external
content type of "application_data" (indicating that they are
encrypted), up to the configured max_early_data_size.
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* Return its own "early_data" extension in EncryptedExtensions,
indicating that it intends to process the early data. It is not
possible for the server to accept only a subset of the early data
messages. Even though the server sends a message accepting early
data, the actual early data itself may already be in flight by the
time the server generates this message.
In order to accept early data, the server MUST have selected the
first key offered in the client's "pre_shared_key" extension. In
addition, it MUST verify that the following values are the same as
those associated with the selected PSK:
* The selected TLS version number
* The selected cipher suite
* The selected ALPN [RFC7301] protocol, if any
These requirements are a superset of those needed to perform a 1-RTT
handshake using the PSK in question.
Future extensions MUST define their interaction with 0-RTT.
If any of these checks fail, the server MUST NOT respond with the
extension and must discard all the first-flight data using one of the
first two mechanisms listed above (thus falling back to 1-RTT or
2-RTT). If the client attempts a 0-RTT handshake but the server
rejects it, the server will generally not have the 0-RTT record
protection keys and must instead use trial decryption (either with
the 1-RTT handshake keys or by looking for a cleartext ClientHello in
the case of a HelloRetryRequest) to find the first non-0-RTT message.
If the server chooses to accept the "early_data" extension, then it
MUST comply with the same error-handling requirements specified for
all records when processing early data records. Specifically, if the
server fails to decrypt a 0-RTT record following an accepted
"early_data" extension, it MUST terminate the connection with a
"bad_record_mac" alert as per Section 5.2.
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If the server rejects the "early_data" extension, the client
application MAY opt to retransmit the Application Data previously
sent in early data once the handshake has been completed. Note that
automatic retransmission of early data could result in incorrect
assumptions regarding the status of the connection. For instance,
when the negotiated connection selects a different ALPN protocol from
what was used for the early data, an application might need to
construct different messages. Similarly, if early data assumes
anything about the connection state, it might be sent in error after
the handshake completes.
A TLS implementation SHOULD NOT automatically resend early data;
applications are in a better position to decide when retransmission
is appropriate. A TLS implementation MUST NOT automatically resend
early data unless the negotiated connection selects the same ALPN
protocol.
4.2.11. Pre-Shared Key Extension
The "pre_shared_key" extension is used to negotiate the identity of
the pre-shared key to be used with a given handshake in association
with PSK key establishment.
The "extension_data" field of this extension contains a
"PreSharedKeyExtension" value:
struct {
opaque identity<1..2^16-1>;
uint32 obfuscated_ticket_age;
} PskIdentity;
opaque PskBinderEntry<32..255>;
struct {
PskIdentity identities<7..2^16-1>;
PskBinderEntry binders<33..2^16-1>;
} OfferedPsks;
struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello: OfferedPsks;
case server_hello: uint16 selected_identity;
};
} PreSharedKeyExtension;
identity: A label for a key. For instance, a ticket (as defined in
Appendix B.3.4) or a label for a pre-shared key established
externally.
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obfuscated_ticket_age: An obfuscated version of the age of the key.
Section 4.2.11.1 describes how to form this value for identities
established via the NewSessionTicket message. For identities
established externally, an obfuscated_ticket_age of 0 SHOULD be
used, and servers MUST ignore the value.
identities: A list of the identities that the client is willing to
negotiate with the server. If sent alongside the "early_data"
extension (see Section 4.2.10), the first identity is the one used
for 0-RTT data.
binders: A series of HMAC values, one for each value in the
identities list and in the same order, computed as described
below.
selected_identity: The server's chosen identity expressed as a
(0-based) index into the identities in the client's
"OfferedPsks.identities" list.
Each PSK is associated with a single Hash algorithm. For PSKs
established via the ticket mechanism (Section 4.6.1), this is the KDF
Hash algorithm on the connection where the ticket was established.
For externally established PSKs, the Hash algorithm MUST be set when
the PSK is established or default to SHA-256 if no such algorithm is
defined. The server MUST ensure that it selects a compatible PSK (if
any) and cipher suite.
In TLS versions prior to TLS 1.3, the Server Name Indication (SNI)
value was intended to be associated with the session (Section 3 of
[RFC6066]), with the server being required to enforce that the SNI
value associated with the session matches the one specified in the
resumption handshake. However, in reality the implementations were
not consistent on which of two supplied SNI values they would use,
leading to the consistency requirement being de facto enforced by the
clients. In TLS 1.3, the SNI value is always explicitly specified in
the resumption handshake, and there is no need for the server to
associate an SNI value with the ticket. Clients, however, SHOULD
store the SNI with the PSK to fulfill the requirements of
Section 4.6.1.
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Implementor's note: When session resumption is the primary use case
of PSKs, the most straightforward way to implement the PSK/cipher
suite matching requirements is to negotiate the cipher suite first
and then exclude any incompatible PSKs. Any unknown PSKs (e.g., ones
not in the PSK database or encrypted with an unknown key) SHOULD
simply be ignored. If no acceptable PSKs are found, the server
SHOULD perform a non-PSK handshake if possible. If backward
compatibility is important, client-provided, externally established
PSKs SHOULD influence cipher suite selection.
Prior to accepting PSK key establishment, the server MUST validate
the corresponding binder value (see Section 4.2.11.2 below). If this
value is not present or does not validate, the server MUST abort the
handshake. Servers SHOULD NOT attempt to validate multiple binders;
rather, they SHOULD select a single PSK and validate solely the
binder that corresponds to that PSK. See Section 8.2 and
Appendix F.6 for the security rationale for this requirement. In
order to accept PSK key establishment, the server sends a
"pre_shared_key" extension indicating the selected identity.
Clients MUST verify that the server's selected_identity is within the
range supplied by the client, that the server selected a cipher suite
indicating a Hash associated with the PSK, and that a server
"key_share" extension is present if required by the ClientHello
"psk_key_exchange_modes" extension. If these values are not
consistent, the client MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
If the server supplies an "early_data" extension, the client MUST
verify that the server's selected_identity is 0. If any other value
is returned, the client MUST abort the handshake with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
The "pre_shared_key" extension MUST be the last extension in the
ClientHello (this facilitates implementation as described below).
Servers MUST check that it is the last extension and otherwise fail
the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
4.2.11.1. Ticket Age
The client's view of the age of a ticket is the time since the
receipt of the NewSessionTicket message. Clients MUST NOT attempt to
use tickets which have ages greater than the "ticket_lifetime" value
which was provided with the ticket. The "obfuscated_ticket_age"
field of each PskIdentity contains an obfuscated version of the
ticket age formed by taking the age in milliseconds and adding the
"ticket_age_add" value that was included with the ticket (see
Section 4.6.1), modulo 2^32. This addition prevents passive
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observers from correlating connections unless tickets or key shares
are reused. Note that the "ticket_lifetime" field in the
NewSessionTicket message is in seconds but the
"obfuscated_ticket_age" is in milliseconds. Because ticket lifetimes
are restricted to a week, 32 bits is enough to represent any
plausible age, even in milliseconds.
4.2.11.2. PSK Binder
The PSK binder value forms a binding between a PSK and the current
handshake, as well as a binding between the handshake in which the
PSK was generated (if via a NewSessionTicket message) and the current
handshake. Each entry in the binders list is computed as an HMAC
over a transcript hash (see Section 4.4.1) containing a partial
ClientHello up to and including the PreSharedKeyExtension.identities
field. That is, it includes all of the ClientHello but not the
binders list itself. The length fields for the message (including
the overall length, the length of the extensions block, and the
length of the "pre_shared_key" extension) are all set as if binders
of the correct lengths were present.
The PskBinderEntry is computed in the same way as the Finished
message (Section 4.4.4) but with the BaseKey being the binder_key
derived via the key schedule from the corresponding PSK which is
being offered (see Section 7.1).
If the handshake includes a HelloRetryRequest, the initial
ClientHello and HelloRetryRequest are included in the transcript
along with the new ClientHello. For instance, if the client sends
ClientHello1, its binder will be computed over:
Transcript-Hash(Truncate(ClientHello1))
Where Truncate() removes the binders list from the ClientHello. Note
that this hash will be computed using the hash associated with the
PSK, as the client does not know which cipher suite the server will
select.
If the server responds with a HelloRetryRequest and the client then
sends ClientHello2, its binder will be computed over:
Transcript-Hash(ClientHello1,
HelloRetryRequest,
Truncate(ClientHello2))
The full ClientHello1/ClientHello2 is included in all other handshake
hash computations. Note that in the first flight,
Truncate(ClientHello1) is hashed directly, but in the second flight,
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ClientHello1 is hashed and then reinjected as a "message_hash"
message, as described in Section 4.4.1. Note that the "message_hash"
will be hashed with the negotiated function, which may or may match
the hash associated with the PSK. This is consistent with how the
transcript is calculated for the rest of the handshake.
4.2.11.3. Processing Order
Clients are permitted to "stream" 0-RTT data until they receive the
server's Finished, only then sending the EndOfEarlyData message,
followed by the rest of the handshake. In order to avoid deadlocks,
when accepting "early_data", servers MUST process the client's
ClientHello and then immediately send their flight of messages,
rather than waiting for the client's EndOfEarlyData message before
sending its ServerHello.
4.3. Server Parameters
The next two messages from the server, EncryptedExtensions and
CertificateRequest, contain information from the server that
determines the rest of the handshake. These messages are encrypted
with keys derived from the server_handshake_traffic_secret.
4.3.1. Encrypted Extensions
In all handshakes, the server MUST send the EncryptedExtensions
message immediately after the ServerHello message. This is the first
message that is encrypted under keys derived from the
server_handshake_traffic_secret.
The EncryptedExtensions message contains extensions that can be
protected, i.e., any which are not needed to establish the
cryptographic context but which are not associated with individual
certificates. The client MUST check EncryptedExtensions for the
presence of any forbidden extensions and if any are found MUST abort
the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
Structure of this message:
struct {
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} EncryptedExtensions;
extensions: A list of extensions. For more information, see the
table in Section 4.2.
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4.3.2. Certificate Request
A server which is authenticating with a certificate MAY optionally
request a certificate from the client. This message, if sent, MUST
follow EncryptedExtensions.
Structure of this message:
struct {
opaque certificate_request_context<0..2^8-1>;
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateRequest;
certificate_request_context: An opaque string which identifies the
certificate request and which will be echoed in the client's
Certificate message. The certificate_request_context MUST be
unique within the scope of this connection (thus preventing replay
of client CertificateVerify messages). This field SHALL be zero
length unless used for the post-handshake authentication exchanges
described in Section 4.6.2. When requesting post-handshake
authentication, the server SHOULD make the context unpredictable
to the client (e.g., by randomly generating it) in order to
prevent an attacker who has temporary access to the client's
private key from pre-computing valid CertificateVerify messages.
extensions: A list of extensions describing the parameters of the
certificate being requested. The "signature_algorithms" extension
MUST be specified, and other extensions may optionally be included
if defined for this message. Clients MUST ignore unrecognized
extensions.
In prior versions of TLS, the CertificateRequest message carried a
list of signature algorithms and certificate authorities which the
server would accept. In TLS 1.3, the former is expressed by sending
the "signature_algorithms" and optionally "signature_algorithms_cert"
extensions. The latter is expressed by sending the
"certificate_authorities" extension (see Section 4.2.4).
Servers which are authenticating with a resumption PSK MUST NOT send
the CertificateRequest message in the main handshake, though they MAY
send it in post-handshake authentication (see Section 4.6.2) provided
that the client has sent the "post_handshake_auth" extension (see
Section 4.2.6). In the absence of some other specification to the
contrary, servers which are authenticating with an external PSK MUST
NOT send the CertificateRequest message either in the main handshake
or request post-handshake authentication. [RFC8773] provides an
extension to permit this, but has received less analysis than this
specification.
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4.4. Authentication Messages
As discussed in Section 2, TLS generally uses a common set of
messages for authentication, key confirmation, and handshake
integrity: Certificate, CertificateVerify, and Finished. (The PSK
binders also perform key confirmation, in a similar fashion.) These
three messages are always sent as the last messages in their
handshake flight. The Certificate and CertificateVerify messages are
only sent under certain circumstances, as defined below. The
Finished message is always sent as part of the Authentication Block.
These messages are encrypted under keys derived from the
[sender]_handshake_traffic_secret, except for post-handshake
authentication.
The computations for the Authentication messages all uniformly take
the following inputs:
* The certificate and signing key to be used.
* A Handshake Context consisting of the list of messages to be
included in the transcript hash.
* A Base Key to be used to compute a MAC key.
Based on these inputs, the messages then contain:
Certificate The certificate to be used for authentication, and any
supporting certificates in the chain. Note that certificate-based
client authentication is not available in PSK handshake flows
(including 0-RTT).
CertificateVerify: A signature over the value Transcript-
Hash(Handshake Context, Certificate)
Finished: A MAC over the value Transcript-Hash(Handshake Context,
Certificate, CertificateVerify) using a MAC key derived from the
Base Key.
The following table defines the Handshake Context and MAC Base Key
for each scenario:
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+=========+====================+=====================================+
|Mode |Handshake Context |Base Key |
+=========+====================+=====================================+
|Server |ClientHello ... |server_handshake_traffic_secret |
| |later of | |
| |EncryptedExtensions/| |
| |CertificateRequest | |
+---------+--------------------+-------------------------------------+
|Client |ClientHello ... |client_handshake_traffic_secret |
| |later of server | |
| |Finished/ | |
| |EndOfEarlyData | |
+---------+--------------------+-------------------------------------+
|Post- |ClientHello ... |[sender]_application_traffic_secret_N|
|Handshake|client Finished + | |
| |CertificateRequest | |
+---------+--------------------+-------------------------------------+
Table 2: Authentication Inputs
4.4.1. The Transcript Hash
Many of the cryptographic computations in TLS make use of a
transcript hash. This value is computed by hashing the concatenation
of each included handshake message, including the handshake message
header carrying the handshake message type and length fields, but not
including record layer headers. I.e.,
Transcript-Hash(M1, M2, ... Mn) = Hash(M1 || M2 || ... || Mn)
As an exception to this general rule, when the server responds to a
ClientHello with a HelloRetryRequest, the value of ClientHello1 is
replaced with a special synthetic handshake message of handshake type
"message_hash" containing Hash(ClientHello1). I.e.,
Transcript-Hash(ClientHello1, HelloRetryRequest, ... Mn) =
Hash(message_hash || /* Handshake type */
00 00 Hash.length || /* Handshake message length (bytes) */
Hash(ClientHello1) || /* Hash of ClientHello1 */
HelloRetryRequest || ... || Mn)
The reason for this construction is to allow the server to do a
stateless HelloRetryRequest by storing just the hash of ClientHello1
in the cookie, rather than requiring it to export the entire
intermediate hash state (see Section 4.2.2).
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For concreteness, the transcript hash is always taken from the
following sequence of handshake messages, starting at the first
ClientHello and including only those messages that were sent:
ClientHello, HelloRetryRequest, ClientHello, ServerHello,
EncryptedExtensions, server CertificateRequest, server Certificate,
server CertificateVerify, server Finished, EndOfEarlyData, client
Certificate, client CertificateVerify, client Finished.
In general, implementations can implement the transcript by keeping a
running transcript hash value based on the negotiated hash. Note,
however, that subsequent post-handshake authentications do not
include each other, just the messages through the end of the main
handshake.
4.4.2. Certificate
This message conveys the endpoint's certificate chain to the peer.
The server MUST send a Certificate message whenever the agreed-upon
key exchange method uses certificates for authentication (this
includes all key exchange methods defined in this document except
PSK).
The client MUST send a Certificate message if and only if the server
has requested certificate-based client authentication via a
CertificateRequest message (Section 4.3.2). If the server requests
certificate-based client authentication but no suitable certificate
is available, the client MUST send a Certificate message containing
no certificates (i.e., with the "certificate_list" field having
length 0). A Finished message MUST be sent regardless of whether the
Certificate message is empty.
Structure of this message:
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enum {
X509(0),
RawPublicKey(2),
(255)
} CertificateType;
struct {
select (certificate_type) {
case RawPublicKey:
/* From RFC 7250 ASN.1_subjectPublicKeyInfo */
opaque ASN1_subjectPublicKeyInfo<1..2^24-1>;
case X509:
opaque cert_data<1..2^24-1>;
};
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateEntry;
struct {
opaque certificate_request_context<0..2^8-1>;
CertificateEntry certificate_list<0..2^24-1>;
} Certificate;
certificate_request_context: If this message is in response to a
CertificateRequest, the value of certificate_request_context in
that message. Otherwise (in the case of server authentication),
this field SHALL be zero length.
certificate_list: A list (chain) of CertificateEntry structures,
each containing a single certificate and list of extensions.
extensions: A list of extension values for the CertificateEntry.
The "Extension" format is defined in Section 4.2. Valid
extensions for server certificates at present include the OCSP
Status extension [RFC6066] and the SignedCertificateTimestamp
extension [RFC6962]; future extensions may be defined for this
message as well. Extensions in the Certificate message from the
server MUST correspond to ones from the ClientHello message.
Extensions in the Certificate message from the client MUST
correspond to extensions in the CertificateRequest message from
the server. If an extension applies to the entire chain, it
SHOULD be included in the first CertificateEntry.
If the corresponding certificate type extension
("server_certificate_type" or "client_certificate_type") was not
negotiated in EncryptedExtensions, or the X.509 certificate type was
negotiated, then each CertificateEntry contains a DER-encoded X.509
certificate. The sender's certificate MUST come in the first
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CertificateEntry in the list. Each following certificate SHOULD
directly certify the one immediately preceding it. Because
certificate validation requires that trust anchors be distributed
independently, a certificate that specifies a trust anchor MAY be
omitted from the chain, provided that supported peers are known to
possess any omitted certificates.
Note: Prior to TLS 1.3, "certificate_list" ordering required each
certificate to certify the one immediately preceding it; however,
some implementations allowed some flexibility. Servers sometimes
send both a current and deprecated intermediate for transitional
purposes, and others are simply configured incorrectly, but these
cases can nonetheless be validated properly. For maximum
compatibility, all implementations SHOULD be prepared to handle
potentially extraneous certificates and arbitrary orderings from any
TLS version, with the exception of the end-entity certificate which
MUST be first.
If the RawPublicKey certificate type was negotiated, then the
certificate_list MUST contain no more than one CertificateEntry,
which contains an ASN1_subjectPublicKeyInfo value as defined in
[RFC7250], Section 3.
The OpenPGP certificate type [RFC6091] MUST NOT be used with TLS 1.3.
The server's certificate_list MUST always be non-empty. A client
will send an empty certificate_list if it does not have an
appropriate certificate to send in response to the server's
authentication request.
4.4.2.1. OCSP Status and SCT Extensions
[RFC6066] and [RFC6961] provide extensions to negotiate the server
sending OCSP responses to the client. In TLS 1.2 and below, the
server replies with an empty extension to indicate negotiation of
this extension and the OCSP information is carried in a
CertificateStatus message. In TLS 1.3, the server's OCSP information
is carried in an extension in the CertificateEntry containing the
associated certificate. Specifically, the body of the
"status_request" extension from the server MUST be a
CertificateStatus structure as defined in [RFC6066], which is
interpreted as defined in [RFC6960].
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Note: The status_request_v2 extension [RFC6961] is deprecated. TLS
1.3 servers MUST NOT act upon its presence or information in it when
processing ClientHello messages; in particular, they MUST NOT send
the status_request_v2 extension in the EncryptedExtensions,
CertificateRequest, or Certificate messages. TLS 1.3 servers MUST be
able to process ClientHello messages that include it, as it MAY be
sent by clients that wish to use it in earlier protocol versions.
A server MAY request that a client present an OCSP response with its
certificate by sending an empty "status_request" extension in its
CertificateRequest message. If the client opts to send an OCSP
response, the body of its "status_request" extension MUST be a
CertificateStatus structure as defined in [RFC6066].
Similarly, [RFC6962] provides a mechanism for a server to send a
Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) as an extension in the ServerHello
in TLS 1.2 and below. In TLS 1.3, the server's SCT information is
carried in an extension in the CertificateEntry.
4.4.2.2. Certificate Selection
The following rules apply to the certificates sent by the client or
server:
* The certificate type MUST be X.509v3 [RFC5280], unless explicitly
negotiated otherwise (e.g., [RFC7250]).
* The end-entity certificate MUST allow the key to be used for
signing with a signature scheme indicated in the peer's
"signature_algorithms" extension (see Section 4.2.3). That is,
the digitalSignature bit MUST be set if the Key Usage extension is
present, and the public key (with associated restrictions) MUST be
compatible with some supported signature scheme.
* If the peer sent a "certificate_authorities" extension, at least
one of the certificates in the certificate chain SHOULD be issued
by one of the listed CAs.
The following rule additionally applies to certificates sent by the
client:
* If the CertificateRequest message contained a non-empty
"oid_filters" extension, the end-entity certificate MUST match the
extension OIDs that are recognized by the client, as described in
Section 4.2.5.
The following rule additionally applies to certificates sent by the
server:
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* The "server_name" [RFC6066] extension is used to guide certificate
selection. As servers MAY require the presence of the
"server_name" extension, clients SHOULD send this extension when
the server is identified by name.
All certificates provided by the sender MUST be signed by a signature
algorithm advertised by the peer, if it is able to provide such a
chain (see Section 4.2.3). Certificates that are self-signed or
certificates that are expected to be trust anchors are not validated
as part of the chain and therefore MAY be signed with any algorithm.
If the sender is the server, and the server cannot produce a
certificate chain that is signed only via the indicated supported
algorithms, then it SHOULD continue the handshake by sending a
certificate chain of its choice that may include algorithms that are
not known to be supported by the client. This fallback chain MUST
NOT use the deprecated SHA-1 hash, unless the client specifically
advertises that it is willing to accept SHA-1.
If the sender is the client, the client MAY use a fallback chain as
above, or continue the handshake anonymously.
If the receiver cannot construct an acceptable chain using the
provided certificates and decides to abort the handshake, then it
MUST abort the handshake with an appropriate certificate-related
alert (by default, "unsupported_certificate"; see Section 6.2 for
more information).
If the sender has multiple certificates, it chooses one of them based
on the above-mentioned criteria (in addition to other criteria, such
as transport-layer endpoint, local configuration, and preferences).
4.4.2.3. Receiving a Certificate Message
In general, detailed certificate validation procedures are out of
scope for TLS (see [RFC5280]). This section provides TLS-specific
requirements.
If the server supplies an empty Certificate message, the client MUST
abort the handshake with a "decode_error" alert.
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If the client does not send any certificates (i.e., it sends an empty
Certificate message), the server MAY at its discretion either
continue the handshake without client authentication, or abort the
handshake with a "certificate_required" alert. Also, if some aspect
of the certificate chain was unacceptable (e.g., it was not signed by
a known, trusted CA), the server MAY at its discretion either
continue the handshake (considering the client unauthenticated) or
abort the handshake.
Any endpoint receiving any certificate which it would need to
validate using any signature algorithm using an MD5 hash MUST abort
the handshake with a "bad_certificate" alert. SHA-1 is deprecated
and it is RECOMMENDED that any endpoint receiving any certificate
which it would need to validate using any signature algorithm using a
SHA-1 hash abort the handshake with a "bad_certificate" alert. For
clarity, this means that endpoints can accept these algorithms for
certificates that are self-signed or are trust anchors.
All endpoints are RECOMMENDED to transition to SHA-256 or better as
soon as possible to maintain interoperability with implementations
currently in the process of phasing out SHA-1 support.
Note that a certificate containing a key for one signature algorithm
MAY be signed using a different signature algorithm (for instance, an
RSA key signed with an ECDSA key).
4.4.3. Certificate Verify
This message is used to provide explicit proof that an endpoint
possesses the private key corresponding to its certificate. The
CertificateVerify message also provides integrity for the handshake
up to this point. Servers MUST send this message when authenticating
via a certificate. Clients MUST send this message whenever
authenticating via a certificate (i.e., when the Certificate message
is non-empty). When sent, this message MUST appear immediately after
the Certificate message and immediately prior to the Finished
message.
Structure of this message:
struct {
SignatureScheme algorithm;
opaque signature<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateVerify;
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The algorithm field specifies the signature algorithm used (see
Section 4.2.3 for the definition of this type). The signature is a
digital signature using that algorithm. The content that is covered
under the signature is the hash output as described in Section 4.4.1,
namely:
Transcript-Hash(Handshake Context, Certificate)
The digital signature is then computed over the concatenation of:
* A string that consists of octet 32 (0x20) repeated 64 times
* The context string (defined below)
* A single 0 byte which serves as the separator
* The content to be signed
This structure is intended to prevent an attack on previous versions
of TLS in which the ServerKeyExchange format meant that attackers
could obtain a signature of a message with a chosen 32-byte prefix
(ClientHello.random). The initial 64-byte pad clears that prefix
along with the server-controlled ServerHello.random.
The context string for a server signature is "TLS 1.3, server
CertificateVerify" The context string for a client signature is "TLS
1.3, client CertificateVerify" It is used to provide separation
between signatures made in different contexts, helping against
potential cross-protocol attacks.
For example, if the transcript hash was 32 bytes of 01 (this length
would make sense for SHA-256), the content covered by the digital
signature for a server CertificateVerify would be:
2020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020
2020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020
544c5320312e332c207365727665722043657274696669636174655665726966
79
00
0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101
On the sender side, the process for computing the signature field of
the CertificateVerify message takes as input:
* The content covered by the digital signature
* The private signing key corresponding to the certificate sent in
the previous message
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If the CertificateVerify message is sent by a server, the signature
algorithm MUST be one offered in the client's "signature_algorithms"
extension unless no valid certificate chain can be produced without
unsupported algorithms (see Section 4.2.3).
If sent by a client, the signature algorithm used in the signature
MUST be one of those present in the supported_signature_algorithms
field of the "signature_algorithms" extension in the
CertificateRequest message.
In addition, the signature algorithm MUST be compatible with the key
in the sender's end-entity certificate. RSA signatures MUST use an
RSASSA-PSS algorithm, regardless of whether RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5
algorithms appear in "signature_algorithms". The SHA-1 algorithm
MUST NOT be used in any signatures of CertificateVerify messages.
All SHA-1 signature algorithms in this specification are defined
solely for use in legacy certificates and are not valid for
CertificateVerify signatures.
The receiver of a CertificateVerify message MUST verify the signature
field. The verification process takes as input:
* The content covered by the digital signature
* The public key contained in the end-entity certificate found in
the associated Certificate message
* The digital signature received in the signature field of the
CertificateVerify message
If the verification fails, the receiver MUST terminate the handshake
with a "decrypt_error" alert.
4.4.4. Finished
The Finished message is the final message in the Authentication
Block. It is essential for providing authentication of the handshake
and of the computed keys.
Recipients of Finished messages MUST verify that the contents are
correct and if incorrect MUST terminate the connection with a
"decrypt_error" alert.
Once a side has sent its Finished message and has received and
validated the Finished message from its peer, it may begin to send
and receive Application Data over the connection. There are two
settings in which it is permitted to send data prior to receiving the
peer's Finished:
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1. Clients sending 0-RTT data as described in Section 4.2.10.
2. Servers MAY send data after sending their first flight, but
because the handshake is not yet complete, they have no assurance
of either the peer's identity or its liveness (i.e., the
ClientHello might have been replayed).
The key used to compute the Finished message is computed from the
Base Key defined in Section 4.4 using HKDF (see Section 7.1).
Specifically:
finished_key =
HKDF-Expand-Label(BaseKey, "finished", "", Hash.length)
Structure of this message:
struct {
opaque verify_data[Hash.length];
} Finished;
The verify_data value is computed as follows:
verify_data =
HMAC(finished_key,
Transcript-Hash(Handshake Context,
Certificate*, CertificateVerify*))
* Only included if present.
HMAC [RFC2104] uses the Hash algorithm for the handshake. As noted
above, the HMAC input can generally be implemented by a running hash,
i.e., just the handshake hash at this point.
In previous versions of TLS, the verify_data was always 12 octets
long. In TLS 1.3, it is the size of the HMAC output for the Hash
used for the handshake.
Note: Alerts and any other non-handshake record types are not
handshake messages and are not included in the hash computations.
Any records following a Finished message MUST be encrypted under the
appropriate application traffic key as described in Section 7.2. In
particular, this includes any alerts sent by the server in response
to client Certificate and CertificateVerify messages.
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4.5. End of Early Data
struct {} EndOfEarlyData;
If the server sent an "early_data" extension in EncryptedExtensions,
the client MUST send an EndOfEarlyData message after receiving the
server Finished. If the server does not send an "early_data"
extension in EncryptedExtensions, then the client MUST NOT send an
EndOfEarlyData message. This message indicates that all 0-RTT
application_data messages, if any, have been transmitted and that the
following records are protected under handshake traffic keys.
Servers MUST NOT send this message, and clients receiving it MUST
terminate the connection with an "unexpected_message" alert. This
message is encrypted under keys derived from the
client_early_traffic_secret.
4.6. Post-Handshake Messages
TLS also allows other messages to be sent after the main handshake.
These messages use a handshake content type and are encrypted under
the appropriate application traffic key.
4.6.1. New Session Ticket Message
If the client's hello contained a suitable "psk_key_exchange_modes"
extension, at any time after the server has received the client
Finished message, it MAY send a NewSessionTicket message. This
message creates a unique association between the ticket value and a
secret PSK derived from the resumption secret (see Section 7).
The client MAY use this PSK for future handshakes by including the
ticket value in the "pre_shared_key" extension in its ClientHello
(Section 4.2.11). Clients which receive a NewSessionTicket message
but do not support resumption MUST silently ignore this message.
Resumption MAY be done while the original connection is still open.
Servers MAY send multiple tickets on a single connection, either
immediately after each other or after specific events (see
Appendix C.4). For instance, the server might send a new ticket
after post-handshake authentication in order to encapsulate the
additional client authentication state. Multiple tickets are useful
for clients for a variety of purposes, including:
* Opening multiple parallel HTTP connections.
* Performing connection racing across interfaces and address
families via (for example) Happy Eyeballs [RFC8305] or related
techniques.
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Any ticket MUST only be resumed with a cipher suite that has the same
KDF hash algorithm as that used to establish the original connection.
Clients MUST only resume if the new SNI value is valid for the server
certificate presented in the original session, and SHOULD only resume
if the SNI value matches the one used in the original session. The
latter is a performance optimization: normally, there is no reason to
expect that different servers covered by a single certificate would
be able to accept each other's tickets; hence, attempting resumption
in that case would waste a single-use ticket. If such an indication
is provided (externally or by any other means), clients MAY resume
with a different SNI value.
On resumption, if reporting an SNI value to the calling application,
implementations MUST use the value sent in the resumption ClientHello
rather than the value sent in the previous session. Note that if a
server implementation declines all PSK identities with different SNI
values, these two values are always the same.
Note: Although the resumption secret depends on the client's second
flight, a server which does not request certificate-based client
authentication MAY compute the remainder of the transcript
independently and then send a NewSessionTicket immediately upon
sending its Finished rather than waiting for the client Finished.
This might be appropriate in cases where the client is expected to
open multiple TLS connections in parallel and would benefit from the
reduced overhead of a resumption handshake, for example.
struct {
uint32 ticket_lifetime;
uint32 ticket_age_add;
opaque ticket_nonce<0..255>;
opaque ticket<1..2^16-1>;
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} NewSessionTicket;
ticket_lifetime: Indicates the lifetime in seconds as a 32-bit
unsigned integer in network byte order from the time of ticket
issuance. Servers MUST NOT use any value greater than 604800
seconds (7 days). The value of zero indicates that the ticket
should be discarded immediately. Clients MUST NOT use tickets for
longer than 7 days after issuance, regardless of the
ticket_lifetime, and MAY delete tickets earlier based on local
policy. A server MAY treat a ticket as valid for a shorter period
of time than what is stated in the ticket_lifetime.
ticket_age_add: A securely generated, random 32-bit value that is
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used to obscure the age of the ticket that the client includes in
the "pre_shared_key" extension. The client-side ticket age is
added to this value modulo 2^32 to obtain the value that is
transmitted by the client. The server MUST generate a fresh value
for each ticket it sends.
ticket_nonce: A per-ticket value that is unique across all tickets
issued on this connection.
ticket: The value of the ticket to be used as the PSK identity. The
ticket itself is an opaque label. It MAY be either a database
lookup key or a self-encrypted and self-authenticated value.
extensions: A list of extension values for the ticket. The
"Extension" format is defined in Section 4.2. Clients MUST ignore
unrecognized extensions.
The sole extension currently defined for NewSessionTicket is
"early_data", indicating that the ticket may be used to send 0-RTT
data (Section 4.2.10). It contains the following value:
max_early_data_size: The maximum amount of 0-RTT data that the
client is allowed to send when using this ticket, in bytes. Only
Application Data payload (i.e., plaintext but not padding or the
inner content type byte) is counted. A server receiving more than
max_early_data_size bytes of 0-RTT data SHOULD terminate the
connection with an "unexpected_message" alert. Note that servers
that reject early data due to lack of cryptographic material will
be unable to differentiate padding from content, so clients SHOULD
NOT depend on being able to send large quantities of padding in
early data records.
The PSK associated with the ticket is computed as:
HKDF-Expand-Label(resumption_secret,
"resumption", ticket_nonce, Hash.length)
Because the ticket_nonce value is distinct for each NewSessionTicket
message, a different PSK will be derived for each ticket.
Note that in principle it is possible to continue issuing new tickets
which indefinitely extend the lifetime of the keying material
originally derived from an initial non-PSK handshake (which was most
likely tied to the peer's certificate). It is RECOMMENDED that
implementations place limits on the total lifetime of such keying
material; these limits should take into account the lifetime of the
peer's certificate, the likelihood of intervening revocation, and the
time since the peer's online CertificateVerify signature.
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4.6.2. Post-Handshake Authentication
When the client has sent the "post_handshake_auth" extension (see
Section 4.2.6), a server MAY request certificate-based client
authentication at any time after the handshake has completed by
sending a CertificateRequest message. The client MUST respond with
the appropriate Authentication messages (see Section 4.4). If the
client chooses to authenticate, it MUST send Certificate,
CertificateVerify, and Finished. If it declines, it MUST send a
Certificate message containing no certificates followed by Finished.
All of the client's messages for a given response MUST appear
consecutively on the wire with no intervening messages of other
types.
A client that receives a CertificateRequest message without having
sent the "post_handshake_auth" extension MUST send an
"unexpected_message" fatal alert.
Note: Because certificate-based client authentication could involve
prompting the user, servers MUST be prepared for some delay,
including receiving an arbitrary number of other messages between
sending the CertificateRequest and receiving a response. In
addition, clients which receive multiple CertificateRequests in close
succession MAY respond to them in a different order than they were
received (the certificate_request_context value allows the server to
disambiguate the responses).
4.6.3. Key and Initialization Vector Update
The KeyUpdate handshake message is used to indicate that the sender
is updating its sending cryptographic keys. This message can be sent
by either peer after it has sent a Finished message. Implementations
that receive a KeyUpdate message prior to receiving a Finished
message MUST terminate the connection with an "unexpected_message"
alert. After sending a KeyUpdate message, the sender SHALL send all
its traffic using the next generation of keys, computed as described
in Section 7.2. Upon receiving a KeyUpdate, the receiver MUST update
its receiving keys.
enum {
update_not_requested(0), update_requested(1), (255)
} KeyUpdateRequest;
struct {
KeyUpdateRequest request_update;
} KeyUpdate;
request_update: Indicates whether the recipient of the KeyUpdate
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should respond with its own KeyUpdate. If an implementation
receives any other value, it MUST terminate the connection with an
"illegal_parameter" alert.
If the request_update field is set to "update_requested", then the
receiver MUST send a KeyUpdate of its own with request_update set to
"update_not_requested" prior to sending its next Application Data
record. This mechanism allows either side to force an update to the
entire connection, but causes an implementation which receives
multiple KeyUpdates while it is silent to respond with a single
update. Until receiving a subsequent KeyUpdate from the peer, the
sender MUST NOT send another KeyUpdate with request_update set to
"update_requested".
Note that implementations may receive an arbitrary number of messages
between sending a KeyUpdate with request_update set to
"update_requested" and receiving the peer's KeyUpdate, including
unrelated KeyUpdates, because those messages may already be in
flight. However, because send and receive keys are derived from
independent traffic secrets, retaining the receive traffic secret
does not threaten the forward secrecy of data sent before the sender
changed keys.
If implementations independently send their own KeyUpdates with
request_update set to "update_requested", and they cross in flight,
then each side will also send a response, with the result that each
side increments by two generations.
Both sender and receiver MUST encrypt their KeyUpdate messages with
the old keys. Additionally, both sides MUST enforce that a KeyUpdate
with the old key is received before accepting any messages encrypted
with the new key. Failure to do so may allow message truncation
attacks.
With a 128-bit key as in AES-128, rekeying 2^64 times has a high
probability of key reuse within a given connection. Note that even
if the key repeats, the IV is also independently generated, so the
chance of a joint key/IV collision is much lower. In order to
provide an extra margin of security, sending implementations MUST NOT
allow the epoch -- and hence the number of key updates -- to exceed
2^48-1. In order to allow this value to be changed later -- for
instance for ciphers with more than 128-bit keys -- receiving
implementations MUST NOT enforce this rule. If a sending
implementation receives a KeyUpdate with request_update set to
"update_requested", it MUST NOT send its own KeyUpdate if that would
cause it to exceed these limits and SHOULD instead ignore the
"update_requested" flag. This may result in an eventual need to
terminate the connection when the limits in Section 5.5 are reached.
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5. Record Protocol
The TLS record protocol takes messages to be transmitted, fragments
the data into manageable blocks, protects the records, and transmits
the result. Received data is verified, decrypted, reassembled, and
then delivered to higher-level clients.
TLS records are typed, which allows multiple higher-level protocols
to be multiplexed over the same record layer. This document
specifies four content types: handshake, application_data, alert, and
change_cipher_spec. The change_cipher_spec record is used only for
compatibility purposes (see Appendix E.4).
An implementation may receive an unencrypted record of type
change_cipher_spec consisting of the single byte value 0x01 at any
time after the first ClientHello message has been sent or received
and before the peer's Finished message has been received and MUST
simply drop it without further processing. Note that this record may
appear at a point at the handshake where the implementation is
expecting protected records, and so it is necessary to detect this
condition prior to attempting to deprotect the record. An
implementation which receives any other change_cipher_spec value or
which receives a protected change_cipher_spec record MUST abort the
handshake with an "unexpected_message" alert. If an implementation
detects a change_cipher_spec record received before the first
ClientHello message or after the peer's Finished message, it MUST be
treated as an unexpected record type (though stateless servers may
not be able to distinguish these cases from allowed cases).
Implementations MUST NOT send record types not defined in this
document unless negotiated by some extension. If a TLS
implementation receives an unexpected record type, it MUST terminate
the connection with an "unexpected_message" alert. New record
content type values are assigned by IANA in the TLS ContentType
registry as described in Section 11.
5.1. Record Layer
The record layer fragments information blocks into TLSPlaintext
records carrying data in chunks of 2^14 bytes or less. Message
boundaries are handled differently depending on the underlying
ContentType. Any future content types MUST specify appropriate
rules. Note that these rules are stricter than what was enforced in
TLS 1.2.
Handshake messages MAY be coalesced into a single TLSPlaintext record
or fragmented across several records, provided that:
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* Handshake messages MUST NOT be interleaved with other record
types. That is, if a handshake message is split over two or more
records, there MUST NOT be any other records between them.
* Handshake messages MUST NOT span key changes. Implementations
MUST verify that all messages immediately preceding a key change
align with a record boundary; if not, then they MUST terminate the
connection with an "unexpected_message" alert. Because the
ClientHello, EndOfEarlyData, ServerHello, Finished, and KeyUpdate
messages can immediately precede a key change, implementations
MUST send these messages in alignment with a record boundary.
Implementations MUST NOT send zero-length fragments of Handshake
types, even if those fragments contain padding.
Alert messages (Section 6) MUST NOT be fragmented across records, and
multiple alert messages MUST NOT be coalesced into a single
TLSPlaintext record. In other words, a record with an Alert type
MUST contain exactly one message.
Application Data messages contain data that is opaque to TLS.
Application Data messages are always protected. Zero-length
fragments of Application Data (i.e., TLSInnerPlaintext records of
type application_data with zero-length content) MAY be sent, as they
are potentially useful as a traffic analysis countermeasure.
Application Data fragments MAY be split across multiple records or
coalesced into a single record.
enum {
invalid(0),
change_cipher_spec(20),
alert(21),
handshake(22),
application_data(23),
(255)
} ContentType;
struct {
ContentType type;
ProtocolVersion legacy_record_version;
uint16 length;
opaque fragment[TLSPlaintext.length];
} TLSPlaintext;
type: The higher-level protocol used to process the enclosed
fragment.
legacy_record_version: MUST be set to 0x0303 for all records
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generated by a TLS 1.3 implementation other than an initial
ClientHello (i.e., one not generated after a HelloRetryRequest),
where it MAY also be 0x0301 for compatibility purposes. This
field is deprecated and MUST be ignored for all purposes.
Previous versions of TLS would use other values in this field
under some circumstances.
length: The length (in bytes) of the following
TLSPlaintext.fragment. The length MUST NOT exceed 2^14 bytes. An
endpoint that receives a record that exceeds this length MUST
terminate the connection with a "record_overflow" alert.
fragment The data being transmitted. This value is transparent and
is treated as an independent block to be dealt with by the higher-
level protocol specified by the type field.
This document describes TLS 1.3, which uses the version 0x0304. This
version value is historical, deriving from the use of 0x0301 for TLS
1.0 and 0x0300 for SSL 3.0. In order to maximize backward
compatibility, a record containing an initial ClientHello SHOULD have
version 0x0301 (reflecting TLS 1.0) and a record containing a second
ClientHello or a ServerHello MUST have version 0x0303 (reflecting TLS
1.2). When negotiating prior versions of TLS, endpoints follow the
procedure and requirements provided in Appendix E.
When record protection has not yet been engaged, TLSPlaintext
structures are written directly onto the wire. Once record
protection has started, TLSPlaintext records are protected and sent
as described in the following section. Note that Application Data
records MUST NOT be written to the wire unprotected (see Section 2
for details).
5.2. Record Payload Protection
The record protection functions translate a TLSPlaintext structure
into a TLSCiphertext structure. The deprotection functions reverse
the process. In TLS 1.3, as opposed to previous versions of TLS, all
ciphers are modeled as "Authenticated Encryption with Associated
Data" (AEAD) [RFC5116]. AEAD functions provide a unified encryption
and authentication operation which turns plaintext into authenticated
ciphertext and back again. Each encrypted record consists of a
plaintext header followed by an encrypted body, which itself contains
a type and optional padding.
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struct {
opaque content[TLSPlaintext.length];
ContentType type;
uint8 zeros[length_of_padding];
} TLSInnerPlaintext;
struct {
ContentType opaque_type = application_data; /* 23 */
ProtocolVersion legacy_record_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
uint16 length;
opaque encrypted_record[TLSCiphertext.length];
} TLSCiphertext;
content: The TLSPlaintext.fragment value, containing the byte
encoding of a handshake or an alert message, or the raw bytes of
the application's data to send.
type: The TLSPlaintext.type value containing the content type of the
record.
zeros: An arbitrary-length run of zero-valued bytes may appear in
the cleartext after the type field. This provides an opportunity
for senders to pad any TLS record by a chosen amount as long as
the total stays within record size limits. See Section 5.4 for
more details.
opaque_type: The outer opaque_type field of a TLSCiphertext record
is always set to the value 23 (application_data) for outward
compatibility with middleboxes accustomed to parsing previous
versions of TLS. The actual content type of the record is found
in TLSInnerPlaintext.type after decryption.
legacy_record_version: The legacy_record_version field is always
0x0303. TLS 1.3 TLSCiphertexts are not generated until after TLS
1.3 has been negotiated, so there are no historical compatibility
concerns where other values might be received. Note that the
handshake protocol, including the ClientHello and ServerHello
messages, authenticates the protocol version, so this value is
redundant.
length: The length (in bytes) of the following
TLSCiphertext.encrypted_record, which is the sum of the lengths of
the content and the padding, plus one for the inner content type,
plus any expansion added by the AEAD algorithm. The length MUST
NOT exceed 2^14 + 256 bytes. An endpoint that receives a record
that exceeds this length MUST terminate the connection with a
"record_overflow" alert.
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encrypted_record: The AEAD-encrypted form of the serialized
TLSInnerPlaintext structure.
AEAD algorithms take as input a single key, a nonce, a plaintext, and
"additional data" to be included in the authentication check, as
described in Section 2.1 of [RFC5116]. The key is either the
client_write_key or the server_write_key, the nonce is derived from
the sequence number and the client_write_iv or server_write_iv (see
Section 5.3), and the additional data input is the record header.
I.e.,
additional_data = TLSCiphertext.opaque_type ||
TLSCiphertext.legacy_record_version ||
TLSCiphertext.length
The plaintext input to the AEAD algorithm is the encoded
TLSInnerPlaintext structure. Derivation of traffic keys is defined
in Section 7.3.
The AEAD output consists of the ciphertext output from the AEAD
encryption operation. The length of the plaintext is greater than
the corresponding TLSPlaintext.length due to the inclusion of
TLSInnerPlaintext.type and any padding supplied by the sender. The
length of the AEAD output will generally be larger than the
plaintext, but by an amount that varies with the AEAD algorithm.
Since the ciphers might incorporate padding, the amount of overhead
could vary with different lengths of plaintext. Symbolically,
AEADEncrypted =
AEAD-Encrypt(write_key, nonce, additional_data, plaintext)
The encrypted_record field of TLSCiphertext is set to AEADEncrypted.
In order to decrypt and verify, the cipher takes as input the key,
nonce, additional data, and the AEADEncrypted value. The output is
either the plaintext or an error indicating that the decryption
failed. There is no separate integrity check. Symbolically,
plaintext of encrypted_record =
AEAD-Decrypt(peer_write_key, nonce, additional_data, AEADEncrypted)
If the decryption fails, the receiver MUST terminate the connection
with a "bad_record_mac" alert.
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An AEAD algorithm used in TLS 1.3 MUST NOT produce an expansion
greater than 255 octets. An endpoint that receives a record from its
peer with TLSCiphertext.length larger than 2^14 + 256 octets MUST
terminate the connection with a "record_overflow" alert. This limit
is derived from the maximum TLSInnerPlaintext length of 2^14 octets +
1 octet for ContentType + the maximum AEAD expansion of 255 octets.
5.3. Per-Record Nonce
A 64-bit sequence number is maintained separately for reading and
writing records. The appropriate sequence number is incremented by
one after reading or writing each record. Each sequence number is
set to zero at the beginning of a connection and whenever the key is
changed; the first record transmitted under a particular traffic key
MUST use sequence number 0.
Because the size of sequence numbers is 64-bit, they should not wrap.
If a TLS implementation would need to wrap a sequence number, it MUST
either rekey (Section 4.6.3) or terminate the connection.
Each AEAD algorithm will specify a range of possible lengths for the
per-record nonce, from N_MIN bytes to N_MAX bytes of input [RFC5116].
The length of the TLS per-record nonce (iv_length) is set to the
larger of 8 bytes and N_MIN for the AEAD algorithm (see [RFC5116],
Section 4). An AEAD algorithm where N_MAX is less than 8 bytes MUST
NOT be used with TLS. The per-record nonce for the AEAD construction
is formed as follows:
1. The 64-bit record sequence number is encoded in network byte
order and padded to the left with zeros to iv_length.
2. The padded sequence number is XORed with either the static
client_write_iv or server_write_iv (depending on the role).
The resulting quantity (of length iv_length) is used as the per-
record nonce.
Note: This is a different construction from that in TLS 1.2, which
specified a partially explicit nonce.
5.4. Record Padding
All encrypted TLS records can be padded to inflate the size of the
TLSCiphertext. This allows the sender to hide the size of the
traffic from an observer.
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When generating a TLSCiphertext record, implementations MAY choose to
pad. An unpadded record is just a record with a padding length of
zero. Padding is a string of zero-valued bytes appended to the
ContentType field before encryption. Implementations MUST set the
padding octets to all zeros before encrypting.
Application Data records may contain a zero-length
TLSInnerPlaintext.content if the sender desires. This permits
generation of plausibly sized cover traffic in contexts where the
presence or absence of activity may be sensitive. Implementations
MUST NOT send Handshake and Alert records that have a zero-length
TLSInnerPlaintext.content; if such a message is received, the
receiving implementation MUST terminate the connection with an
"unexpected_message" alert.
The padding sent is automatically verified by the record protection
mechanism; upon successful decryption of a
TLSCiphertext.encrypted_record, the receiving implementation scans
the field from the end toward the beginning until it finds a non-zero
octet. This non-zero octet is the content type of the message. This
padding scheme was selected because it allows padding of any
encrypted TLS record by an arbitrary size (from zero up to TLS record
size limits) without introducing new content types. The design also
enforces all-zero padding octets, which allows for quick detection of
padding errors.
Implementations MUST limit their scanning to the cleartext returned
from the AEAD decryption. If a receiving implementation does not
find a non-zero octet in the cleartext, it MUST terminate the
connection with an "unexpected_message" alert.
The presence of padding does not change the overall record size
limitations: the full encoded TLSInnerPlaintext MUST NOT exceed 2^14
+ 1 octets. If the maximum fragment length is reduced -- as for
example by the record_size_limit extension from [RFC8449] -- then the
reduced limit applies to the full plaintext, including the content
type and padding.
Selecting a padding policy that suggests when and how much to pad is
a complex topic and is beyond the scope of this specification. If
the application-layer protocol on top of TLS has its own padding, it
may be preferable to pad Application Data TLS records within the
application layer. Padding for encrypted Handshake or Alert records
must still be handled at the TLS layer, though. Later documents may
define padding selection algorithms or define a padding policy
request mechanism through TLS extensions or some other means.
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5.5. Limits on Key Usage
There are cryptographic limits on the amount of plaintext which can
be safely encrypted under a given set of keys. [AEAD-LIMITS]
provides an analysis of these limits under the assumption that the
underlying primitive (AES or ChaCha20) has no weaknesses.
Implementations MUST either close the connection or do a key update
as described in Section 4.6.3 prior to reaching these limits. Note
that it is not possible to perform a KeyUpdate for early data and
therefore implementations MUST NOT exceed the limits when sending
early data. Receiving implementations SHOULD NOT enforce these
limits, as future analyses may result in updated values.
For AES-GCM, up to 2^24.5 full-size records (about 24 million) may be
encrypted on a given connection while keeping a safety margin of
approximately 2^-57 for Authenticated Encryption (AE) security. For
ChaCha20/Poly1305, the record sequence number would wrap before the
safety limit is reached.
6. Alert Protocol
TLS provides an Alert content type to indicate closure information
and errors. Like other messages, alert messages are encrypted as
specified by the current connection state.
Alert messages convey a description of the alert and a legacy field
that conveyed the severity level of the message in previous versions
of TLS. Alerts are divided into two classes: closure alerts and
error alerts. In TLS 1.3, the severity is implicit in the type of
alert being sent, and the "level" field can safely be ignored. The
"close_notify" alert is used to indicate orderly closure of one
direction of the connection. Upon receiving such an alert, the TLS
implementation SHOULD indicate end-of-data to the application.
Error alerts indicate abortive closure of the connection (see
Section 6.2). Upon receiving an error alert, the TLS implementation
SHOULD indicate an error to the application and MUST NOT allow any
further data to be sent or received on the connection. Servers and
clients MUST forget the secret values and keys established in failed
connections, with the exception of the PSKs associated with session
tickets, which SHOULD be discarded if possible.
All the alerts listed in Section 6.2 MUST be sent with
AlertLevel=fatal and MUST be treated as error alerts when received
regardless of the AlertLevel in the message. Unknown Alert types
MUST be treated as error alerts.
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Note: TLS defines two generic alerts (see Section 6) to use upon
failure to parse a message. Peers which receive a message which
cannot be parsed according to the syntax (e.g., have a length
extending beyond the message boundary or contain an out-of-range
length) MUST terminate the connection with a "decode_error" alert.
Peers which receive a message which is syntactically correct but
semantically invalid (e.g., a DHE share of p - 1, or an invalid enum)
MUST terminate the connection with an "illegal_parameter" alert.
enum { warning(1), fatal(2), (255) } AlertLevel;
enum {
close_notify(0),
unexpected_message(10),
bad_record_mac(20),
record_overflow(22),
handshake_failure(40),
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),
protocol_version(70),
insufficient_security(71),
internal_error(80),
inappropriate_fallback(86),
user_canceled(90),
missing_extension(109),
unsupported_extension(110),
unrecognized_name(112),
bad_certificate_status_response(113),
unknown_psk_identity(115),
certificate_required(116),
general_error(117),
no_application_protocol(120),
(255)
} AlertDescription;
struct {
AlertLevel level;
AlertDescription description;
} Alert;
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6.1. Closure Alerts
The client and the server must share knowledge that the connection is
ending in order to avoid a truncation attack.
close_notify: This alert notifies the recipient that the sender will
not send any more messages on this connection. Any data received
after a closure alert has been received MUST be ignored. This
alert MUST be sent with AlertLevel=warning.
user_canceled: This alert notifies the recipient that the sender is
canceling the handshake for some reason unrelated to a protocol
failure. If a user cancels an operation after the handshake is
complete, just closing the connection by sending a "close_notify"
is more appropriate. This alert MUST be followed by a
"close_notify". This alert generally has AlertLevel=warning.
Receiving implementations SHOULD continue to read data from the
peer until a "close_notify" is received, though they MAY log or
otherwise record them.
Either party MAY initiate a close of its write side of the connection
by sending a "close_notify" alert. Any data received after a
"close_notify" alert has been received MUST be ignored. If a
transport-level close is received prior to a "close_notify", the
receiver cannot know that all the data that was sent has been
received.
Each party MUST send a "close_notify" alert before closing its write
side of the connection, unless it has already sent some error alert.
This does not have any effect on its read side of the connection.
Note that this is a change from versions of TLS prior to TLS 1.3 in
which implementations were required to react to a "close_notify" by
discarding pending writes and sending an immediate "close_notify"
alert of their own. That previous requirement could cause truncation
in the read side. Both parties need not wait to receive a
"close_notify" alert before closing their read side of the
connection, though doing so would introduce the possibility of
truncation.
Application protocols MAY choose to flush their send buffers and
immediately send a close_notify upon receiving a close_notify, but
this allows an attacker to influence the data that the peer receives
by delaying the close_notify or by delaying the transport level
delivery of the application's packets. These issues can be addressed
at the application layer, for instance by ignoring packets received
after transmitting the close_notify.
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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 a "close_notify" alert
before indicating end-of-data to the application layer. 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.
Note: It is assumed that closing the write side of a connection
reliably delivers pending data before destroying the transport.
6.2. Error Alerts
Error handling in TLS is very simple. When an error is detected, the
detecting party sends a message to its peer. Upon transmission or
receipt of a fatal alert message, both parties MUST immediately close
the connection.
Whenever an implementation encounters a fatal error condition, it
SHOULD send an appropriate fatal alert and MUST close the connection
without sending or receiving any additional data. Throughout this
specification, when the phrases "terminate the connection" and "abort
the handshake" are used without a specific alert it means that the
implementation SHOULD send the alert indicated by the descriptions
below. The phrases "terminate the connection with an X alert" and
"abort the handshake with an X alert" mean that the implementation
MUST send alert X if it sends any alert. All alerts defined below in
this section, as well as all unknown alerts, are universally
considered fatal as of TLS 1.3 (see Section 6). The implementation
SHOULD provide a way to facilitate logging the sending and receiving
of alerts.
The following error alerts are defined:
unexpected_message: An inappropriate message (e.g., the wrong
handshake message, premature Application Data, etc.) was received.
This alert should never be observed in communication between
proper implementations.
bad_record_mac: This alert is returned if a record is received which
cannot be deprotected. Because AEAD algorithms combine decryption
and verification, and also to avoid side-channel attacks, this
alert is used for all deprotection failures. This alert should
never be observed in communication between proper implementations,
except when messages were corrupted in the network.
record_overflow: A TLSCiphertext record was received that had a
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length more than 2^14 + 256 bytes, or a record decrypted to a
TLSPlaintext record with more than 2^14 bytes (or some other
negotiated limit). This alert should never be observed in
communication between proper implementations, except when messages
were corrupted in the network.
handshake_failure: Receipt of a "handshake_failure" alert message
indicates that the sender was unable to negotiate an acceptable
set of security parameters given the options available.
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 incorrect or
inconsistent with other fields. This alert is used for errors
which conform to the formal protocol syntax but are otherwise
incorrect.
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 could not be matched with a known trust
anchor.
access_denied: A valid certificate or PSK was received, but when
access control was applied, the sender decided not to proceed with
negotiation.
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 alert is used for errors where the message does
not conform to the formal protocol syntax. This alert should
never be observed in communication between proper implementations,
except when messages were corrupted in the network.
decrypt_error: A handshake (not record layer) cryptographic
operation failed, including being unable to correctly verify a
signature or validate a Finished message or a PSK binder.
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protocol_version: The protocol version the peer has attempted to
negotiate is recognized but not supported (see Appendix E).
insufficient_security: Returned instead of "handshake_failure" when
a negotiation has failed specifically because the server requires
parameters more secure than those supported by the client.
internal_error: An internal error unrelated to the peer or the
correctness of the protocol (such as a memory allocation failure)
makes it impossible to continue.
inappropriate_fallback: Sent by a server in response to an invalid
connection retry attempt from a client (see [RFC7507]).
missing_extension: Sent by endpoints that receive a handshake
message not containing an extension that is mandatory to send for
the offered TLS version or other negotiated parameters.
unsupported_extension: Sent by endpoints receiving any handshake
message containing an extension in a ServerHello,
HelloRetryRequest, EncryptedExtensions, or Certificate not first
offered in the corresponding ClientHello or CertificateRequest.
unrecognized_name: Sent by servers when no server exists identified
by the name provided by the client via the "server_name" extension
(see [RFC6066]).
bad_certificate_status_response: Sent by clients when an invalid or
unacceptable OCSP response is provided by the server via the
"status_request" extension (see [RFC6066]).
unknown_psk_identity: Sent by servers when PSK key establishment is
desired but no acceptable PSK identity is provided by the client.
Sending this alert is OPTIONAL; servers MAY instead choose to send
a "decrypt_error" alert to merely indicate an invalid PSK
identity.
certificate_required: Sent by servers when a client certificate is
desired but none was provided by the client.
general_error: Sent to indicate an error condition in cases when
either no more specific error is available or the senders wishes
to conceal the specific error code. Implementations SHOULD use
more specific errors when available.
no_application_protocol: Sent by servers when a client
"application_layer_protocol_negotiation" extension advertises only
protocols that the server does not support (see [RFC7301]).
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New Alert values are assigned by IANA as described in Section 11.
7. Cryptographic Computations
The TLS handshake establishes one or more input secrets which are
combined to create the actual working keying material, as detailed
below. The key derivation process incorporates both the input
secrets and the handshake transcript. Note that because the
handshake transcript includes the random values from the Hello
messages, any given handshake will have different traffic secrets,
even if the same input secrets are used, as is the case when the same
PSK is used for multiple connections.
7.1. Key Schedule
The key derivation process makes use of the HKDF-Extract and HKDF-
Expand functions as defined for HKDF [RFC5869], as well as the
functions defined below:
HKDF-Expand-Label(Secret, Label, Context, Length) =
HKDF-Expand(Secret, HkdfLabel, Length)
Where HkdfLabel is specified as:
struct {
uint16 length = Length;
opaque label<7..255> = "tls13 " + Label;
opaque context<0..255> = Context;
} HkdfLabel;
Derive-Secret(Secret, Label, Messages) =
HKDF-Expand-Label(Secret, Label,
Transcript-Hash(Messages), Hash.length)
The Hash function used by Transcript-Hash and HKDF is the cipher
suite hash algorithm. Hash.length is its output length in bytes.
Messages is the concatenation of the indicated handshake messages,
including the handshake message type and length fields, but not
including record layer headers. Note that in some cases a zero-
length Context (indicated by "") is passed to HKDF-Expand-Label. The
labels specified in this document are all ASCII strings and do not
include a trailing NUL byte.
Any extensions to TLS which use "HKDF-Expand-Label" use the HkdfLabel
definition associated with the version of TLS with which they are
being used. When used with this specification, that means using
HkdfLabel as defined above; when used with DTLS [RFC9147] that means
using the version defined in [RFC9147], Section 5.9.
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Note: With common hash functions, any label longer than 12 characters
requires an additional iteration of the hash function to compute.
The labels in this specification have all been chosen to fit within
this limit.
Keys are derived from two input secrets using the HKDF-Extract and
Derive-Secret functions. The general pattern for adding a new secret
is to use HKDF-Extract with the Salt being the current secret state
and the Input Keying Material (IKM) being the new secret to be added.
In this version of TLS 1.3, the two input secrets are:
* PSK (a pre-shared key established externally or derived from the
resumption_secret value from a previous connection)
* (EC)DHE shared secret (Section 7.4)
This produces a full key derivation schedule shown in the diagram
below. In this diagram, the following formatting conventions apply:
* HKDF-Extract is drawn as taking the Salt argument from the top and
the IKM argument from the left, with its output to the bottom and
the name of the output on the right.
* Derive-Secret's Secret argument is indicated by the incoming
arrow. For instance, the Early Secret is the Secret for
generating the client_early_traffic_secret.
* "0" indicates a string of Hash.length bytes set to zero.
Note: the key derivation labels use the string "master" even though
the values are referred to as "main" secrets. This mismatch is a
result of renaming the values while retaining compatibility.
0
|
v
PSK --> HKDF-Extract = Early Secret
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(.,
| "ext binder" |
| "res binder",
| "")
| = binder_key
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "c e traffic",
| ClientHello)
| = client_early_traffic_secret
|
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+-----> Derive-Secret(., "e exp master",
| ClientHello)
| = early_exporter_secret
v
Derive-Secret(., "derived", "")
|
v
(EC)DHE --> HKDF-Extract = Handshake Secret
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "c hs traffic",
| ClientHello...ServerHello)
| = client_handshake_traffic_secret
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "s hs traffic",
| ClientHello...ServerHello)
| = server_handshake_traffic_secret
v
Derive-Secret(., "derived", "")
|
v
0 --> HKDF-Extract = Main Secret
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "c ap traffic",
| ClientHello...server Finished)
| = client_application_traffic_secret_0
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "s ap traffic",
| ClientHello...server Finished)
| = server_application_traffic_secret_0
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "exp master",
| ClientHello...server Finished)
| = exporter_secret
|
+-----> Derive-Secret(., "res master",
ClientHello...client Finished)
= resumption_secret
The general pattern here is that the secrets shown down the left side
of the diagram are just raw entropy without context, whereas the
secrets down the right side include Handshake Context and therefore
can be used to derive working keys without additional context. Note
that the different calls to Derive-Secret may take different Messages
arguments, even with the same secret. In a 0-RTT exchange, Derive-
Secret is called with four distinct transcripts; in a 1-RTT-only
exchange, it is called with three distinct transcripts.
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If a given secret is not available, then the 0-value consisting of a
string of Hash.length bytes set to zeros is used. Note that this
does not mean skipping rounds, so if PSK is not in use, Early Secret
will still be HKDF-Extract(0, 0). For the computation of the
binder_key, the label is "ext binder" for external PSKs (those
provisioned outside of TLS) and "res binder" for resumption PSKs
(those provisioned as the resumption secret of a previous handshake).
The different labels prevent the substitution of one type of PSK for
the other.
There are multiple potential Early Secret values, depending on which
PSK the server ultimately selects. The client will need to compute
one for each potential PSK; if no PSK is selected, it will then need
to compute the Early Secret corresponding to the zero PSK.
Once all the values which are to be derived from a given secret have
been computed, that secret SHOULD be erased.
7.2. Updating Traffic Secrets
Once the handshake is complete, it is possible for either side to
update its sending traffic keys using the KeyUpdate handshake message
defined in Section 4.6.3. The next generation of traffic keys is
computed by generating client_/server_application_traffic_secret_N+1
from client_/server_application_traffic_secret_N as described in this
section and then re-deriving the traffic keys as described in
Section 7.3.
The next-generation application_traffic_secret is computed as:
application_traffic_secret_N+1 =
HKDF-Expand-Label(application_traffic_secret_N,
"traffic upd", "", Hash.length)
Once client_/server_application_traffic_secret_N+1 and its associated
traffic keys have been computed, implementations SHOULD delete
client_/server_application_traffic_secret_N and its associated
traffic keys.
7.3. Traffic Key Calculation
The traffic keying material is generated from the following input
values:
* A secret value
* A purpose value indicating the specific value being generated
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* The length of the key being generated
The traffic keying material is generated from an input traffic secret
value using:
[sender]_write_key = HKDF-Expand-Label(Secret, "key", "", key_length)
[sender]_write_iv = HKDF-Expand-Label(Secret, "iv", "", iv_length)
[sender] denotes the sending side. The value of Secret for each
category of data is shown in the table below.
+====================+=======================================+
| Data Type | Secret |
+====================+=======================================+
| 0-RTT Application | client_early_traffic_secret |
| and EndOfEarlyData | |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Initial Handshake | [sender]_handshake_traffic_secret |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------+
| Post-Handshake and | [sender]_application_traffic_secret_N |
| Application Data | |
+--------------------+---------------------------------------+
Table 3: Secrets for Traffic Keys
Alerts are sent with the then current sending key (or as plaintext if
no such key has been established.) All the traffic keying material
is recomputed whenever the underlying Secret changes (e.g., when
changing from the handshake to Application Data keys or upon a key
update).
7.4. (EC)DHE Shared Secret Calculation
7.4.1. Finite Field Diffie-Hellman
For finite field groups, a conventional Diffie-Hellman [KEYAGREEMENT]
computation is performed. The negotiated key (Z) is converted to a
byte string by encoding in big-endian form and left-padded with zeros
up to the size of the prime. This byte string is used as the shared
secret in the key schedule as specified above.
Note that this construction differs from previous versions of TLS
which remove leading zeros.
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7.4.2. Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman
For secp256r1, secp384r1 and secp521r1, ECDH calculations (including
key generation and shared secret calculation) are performed according
to Sections 5.6.1.2 and 5.7.1.2 of [KEYAGREEMENT] using the Elliptic
Curve Cryptography Cofactor Diffie-Hellman Primitive. The shared
secret Z is the x-coordinate of the ECDH shared secret elliptic curve
point represented as an octet string. Note that the octet string Z
as output by the Field-Element-to-Byte String Conversion specified in
Appendix C.2 of [KEYAGREEMENT] has constant length for any given
field; leading zeros found in this octet string MUST NOT be
truncated. See Section 4.2.8.2 for requirements on public-key
validation.
For X25519 and X448, the ECDH calculations are as follows:
* The public key to put into the KeyShareEntry.key_exchange
structure is the result of applying the ECDH scalar multiplication
function to the secret key of appropriate length (into scalar
input) and the standard public basepoint (into u-coordinate point
input).
* The ECDH shared secret is the result of applying the ECDH scalar
multiplication function to the secret key (into scalar input) and
the peer's public key (into u-coordinate point input). The output
is used raw, with no processing.
For these curves, implementations SHOULD use the approach specified
in [RFC7748] to calculate the Diffie-Hellman shared secret.
Implementations MUST check whether the computed Diffie-Hellman shared
secret is the all-zero value and abort if so, as described in
Section 6 of [RFC7748]. If implementors use an alternative
implementation of these elliptic curves, they SHOULD perform the
additional checks specified in Section 7 of [RFC7748].
7.5. Exporters
[RFC5705] defines keying material exporters for TLS in terms of the
TLS pseudorandom function (PRF). This document replaces the PRF with
HKDF, thus requiring a new construction. The exporter interface
remains the same.
The exporter value is computed as:
TLS-Exporter(label, context_value, key_length) =
HKDF-Expand-Label(Derive-Secret(Secret, label, ""),
"exporter", Hash(context_value), key_length)
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Where Secret is either the early_exporter_secret or the
exporter_secret. Implementations MUST use the exporter_secret unless
explicitly specified by the application. The early_exporter_secret
is defined for use in settings where an exporter is needed for 0-RTT
data. A separate interface for the early exporter is RECOMMENDED;
this avoids the exporter user accidentally using an early exporter
when a regular one is desired or vice versa.
If no context is provided, the context_value is zero length.
Consequently, providing no context computes the same value as
providing an empty context. This is a change from previous versions
of TLS where an empty context produced a different output than an
absent context. As of this document's publication, no allocated
exporter label is used both with and without a context. Future
specifications MUST NOT define a use of exporters that permit both an
empty context and no context with the same label. New uses of
exporters SHOULD provide a context in all exporter computations,
though the value could be empty.
Requirements for the format of exporter labels are defined in
Section 4 of [RFC5705].
8. 0-RTT and Anti-Replay
As noted in Section 2.3 and Appendix F.5, TLS does not provide
inherent replay protections for 0-RTT data. There are two potential
threats to be concerned with:
* Network attackers who mount a replay attack by simply duplicating
a flight of 0-RTT data.
* Network attackers who take advantage of client retry behavior to
arrange for the server to receive multiple copies of an
application message. This threat already exists to some extent
because clients that value robustness respond to network errors by
attempting to retry requests. However, 0-RTT adds an additional
dimension for any server system which does not maintain globally
consistent server state. Specifically, if a server system has
multiple zones where tickets from zone A will not be accepted in
zone B, then an attacker can duplicate a ClientHello and early
data intended for A to both A and B. At A, the data will be
accepted in 0-RTT, but at B the server will reject 0-RTT data and
instead force a full handshake. If the attacker blocks the
ServerHello from A, then the client will complete the handshake
with B and probably retry the request, leading to duplication on
the server system as a whole.
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The first class of attack can be prevented by sharing state to
guarantee that the 0-RTT data is accepted at most once. Servers
SHOULD provide that level of replay safety by implementing one of the
methods described in this section or by equivalent means. It is
understood, however, that due to operational concerns not all
deployments will maintain state at that level. Therefore, in normal
operation, clients will not know which, if any, of these mechanisms
servers actually implement and hence MUST only send early data which
they deem safe to be replayed.
In addition to the direct effects of replays, there is a class of
attacks where even operations normally considered idempotent could be
exploited by a large number of replays (timing attacks, resource
limit exhaustion and others, as described in Appendix F.5). Those
can be mitigated by ensuring that every 0-RTT payload can be replayed
only a limited number of times. The server MUST ensure that any
instance of it (be it a machine, a thread, or any other entity within
the relevant serving infrastructure) would accept 0-RTT for the same
0-RTT handshake at most once; this limits the number of replays to
the number of server instances in the deployment. Such a guarantee
can be accomplished by locally recording data from recently received
ClientHellos and rejecting repeats, or by any other method that
provides the same or a stronger guarantee. The "at most once per
server instance" guarantee is a minimum requirement; servers SHOULD
limit 0-RTT replays further when feasible.
The second class of attack cannot be prevented at the TLS layer and
MUST be dealt with by any application. Note that any application
whose clients implement any kind of retry behavior already needs to
implement some sort of anti-replay defense.
8.1. Single-Use Tickets
The simplest form of anti-replay defense is for the server to only
allow each session ticket to be used once. For instance, the server
can maintain a database of all outstanding valid tickets, deleting
each ticket from the database as it is used. If an unknown ticket is
provided, the server would then fall back to a full handshake.
If the tickets are not self-contained but rather are database keys,
and the corresponding PSKs are deleted upon use, then connections
established using PSKs enjoy not only anti-replay protection, but
also forward secrecy once all copies of the PSK from the database
entry have been deleted. This mechanism also improves security for
PSK usage when PSK is used without (EC)DHE.
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Because this mechanism requires sharing the session database between
server nodes in environments with multiple distributed servers, it
may be hard to achieve high rates of successful PSK 0-RTT connections
when compared to self-encrypted tickets. Unlike session databases,
session tickets can successfully do PSK-based session establishment
even without consistent storage, though when 0-RTT is allowed they
still require consistent storage for anti-replay of 0-RTT data, as
detailed in the following section.
8.2. Client Hello Recording
An alternative form of anti-replay is to record a unique value
derived from the ClientHello (generally either the random value or
the PSK binder) and reject duplicates. Recording all ClientHellos
causes state to grow without bound, but a server can instead record
ClientHellos within a given time window and use the
"obfuscated_ticket_age" to ensure that tickets aren't reused outside
that window.
In order to implement this, when a ClientHello is received, the
server first verifies the PSK binder as described in Section 4.2.11.
It then computes the expected_arrival_time as described in the next
section and rejects 0-RTT if it is outside the recording window,
falling back to the 1-RTT handshake.
If the expected_arrival_time is in the window, then the server checks
to see if it has recorded a matching ClientHello. If one is found,
it either aborts the handshake with an "illegal_parameter" alert or
accepts the PSK but rejects 0-RTT. If no matching ClientHello is
found, then it accepts 0-RTT and then stores the ClientHello for as
long as the expected_arrival_time is inside the window. Servers MAY
also implement data stores with false positives, such as Bloom
filters, in which case they MUST respond to apparent replay by
rejecting 0-RTT but MUST NOT abort the handshake.
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The server MUST derive the storage key only from validated sections
of the ClientHello. If the ClientHello contains multiple PSK
identities, then an attacker can create multiple ClientHellos with
different binder values for the less-preferred identity on the
assumption that the server will not verify it (as recommended by
Section 4.2.11). I.e., if the client sends PSKs A and B but the
server prefers A, then the attacker can change the binder for B
without affecting the binder for A. If the binder for B is part of
the storage key, then this ClientHello will not appear as a
duplicate, which will cause the ClientHello to be accepted, and may
cause side effects such as replay cache pollution, although any 0-RTT
data will not be decryptable because it will use different keys. If
the validated binder or the ClientHello.random is used as the storage
key, then this attack is not possible.
Because this mechanism does not require storing all outstanding
tickets, it may be easier to implement in distributed systems with
high rates of resumption and 0-RTT, at the cost of potentially weaker
anti-replay defense because of the difficulty of reliably storing and
retrieving the received ClientHello messages. In many such systems,
it is impractical to have globally consistent storage of all the
received ClientHellos. In this case, the best anti-replay protection
is provided by having a single storage zone be authoritative for a
given ticket and refusing 0-RTT for that ticket in any other zone.
This approach prevents simple replay by the attacker because only one
zone will accept 0-RTT data. A weaker design is to implement
separate storage for each zone but allow 0-RTT in any zone. This
approach limits the number of replays to once per zone. Application
message duplication of course remains possible with either design.
When implementations are freshly started, they SHOULD reject 0-RTT as
long as any portion of their recording window overlaps the startup
time. Otherwise, they run the risk of accepting replays which were
originally sent during that period.
Note: If the client's clock is running much faster than the server's,
then a ClientHello may be received that is outside the window in the
future, in which case it might be accepted for 1-RTT, causing a
client retry, and then acceptable later for 0-RTT. This is another
variant of the second form of attack described in Section 8.
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8.3. Freshness Checks
Because the ClientHello indicates the time at which the client sent
it, it is possible to efficiently determine whether a ClientHello was
likely sent reasonably recently and only accept 0-RTT for such a
ClientHello, otherwise falling back to a 1-RTT handshake. This is
necessary for the ClientHello storage mechanism described in
Section 8.2 because otherwise the server needs to store an unlimited
number of ClientHellos, and is a useful optimization for self-
contained single-use tickets because it allows efficient rejection of
ClientHellos which cannot be used for 0-RTT.
In order to implement this mechanism, a server needs to store the
time that the server generated the session ticket, offset by an
estimate of the round-trip time between client and server. I.e.,
adjusted_creation_time = creation_time + estimated_RTT
This value can be encoded in the ticket, thus avoiding the need to
keep state for each outstanding ticket. The server can determine the
client's view of the age of the ticket by subtracting the ticket's
"ticket_age_add" value from the "obfuscated_ticket_age" parameter in
the client's "pre_shared_key" extension. The server can determine
the expected_arrival_time of the ClientHello as:
expected_arrival_time = adjusted_creation_time + clients_ticket_age
When a new ClientHello is received, the expected_arrival_time is then
compared against the current server wall clock time and if they
differ by more than a certain amount, 0-RTT is rejected, though the
1-RTT handshake can be allowed to complete.
There are several potential sources of error that might cause
mismatches between the expected_arrival_time and the measured time.
Variations in client and server clock rates are likely to be minimal,
though potentially the absolute times may be off by large values.
Network propagation delays are the most likely causes of a mismatch
in legitimate values for elapsed time. Both the NewSessionTicket and
ClientHello messages might be retransmitted and therefore delayed,
which might be hidden by TCP. For clients on the Internet, this
implies windows on the order of ten seconds to account for errors in
clocks and variations in measurements; other deployment scenarios may
have different needs. Clock skew distributions are not symmetric, so
the optimal tradeoff may involve an asymmetric range of permissible
mismatch values.
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Note that freshness checking alone is not sufficient to prevent
replays because it does not detect them during the error window,
which -- depending on bandwidth and system capacity -- could include
billions of replays in real-world settings. In addition, this
freshness checking is only done at the time the ClientHello is
received, and not when subsequent early Application Data records are
received. After early data is accepted, records may continue to be
streamed to the server over a longer time period.
9. Compliance Requirements
9.1. Mandatory-to-Implement Cipher Suites
In the absence of an application profile standard specifying
otherwise:
A TLS-compliant application MUST implement the TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
[GCM] cipher suite and SHOULD implement the TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
[GCM] and TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 [RFC8439] cipher suites (see
Appendix B.4).
A TLS-compliant application MUST support digital signatures with
rsa_pkcs1_sha256 (for certificates), rsa_pss_rsae_sha256 (for
CertificateVerify and certificates), and ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256. A
TLS-compliant application MUST support key exchange with secp256r1
(NIST P-256) and SHOULD support key exchange with X25519 [RFC7748].
9.2. Mandatory-to-Implement Extensions
In the absence of an application profile standard specifying
otherwise, a TLS-compliant application MUST implement the following
TLS extensions:
* Supported Versions ("supported_versions"; Section 4.2.1)
* Cookie ("cookie"; Section 4.2.2)
* Signature Algorithms ("signature_algorithms"; Section 4.2.3)
* Signature Algorithms Certificate ("signature_algorithms_cert";
Section 4.2.3)
* Negotiated Groups ("supported_groups"; Section 4.2.7)
* Key Share ("key_share"; Section 4.2.8)
* Server Name Indication ("server_name"; Section 3 of [RFC6066])
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All implementations MUST send and use these extensions when offering
applicable features:
* "supported_versions" is REQUIRED for all ClientHello, ServerHello,
and HelloRetryRequest messages.
* "signature_algorithms" is REQUIRED for certificate authentication.
* "supported_groups" is REQUIRED for ClientHello messages using DHE
or ECDHE key exchange.
* "key_share" is REQUIRED for DHE or ECDHE key exchange.
* "pre_shared_key" is REQUIRED for PSK key agreement.
* "psk_key_exchange_modes" is REQUIRED for PSK key agreement.
A client is considered to be attempting to negotiate using this
specification if the ClientHello contains a "supported_versions"
extension with 0x0304 contained in its body. Such a ClientHello
message MUST meet the following requirements:
* If not containing a "pre_shared_key" extension, it MUST contain
both a "signature_algorithms" extension and a "supported_groups"
extension.
* If containing a "supported_groups" extension, it MUST also contain
a "key_share" extension, and vice versa. An empty
KeyShare.client_shares list is permitted.
Servers receiving a ClientHello which does not conform to these
requirements MUST abort the handshake with a "missing_extension"
alert.
Additionally, all implementations MUST support the use of the
"server_name" extension with applications capable of using it.
Servers MAY require clients to send a valid "server_name" extension.
Servers requiring this extension SHOULD respond to a ClientHello
lacking a "server_name" extension by terminating the connection with
a "missing_extension" alert.
9.3. Protocol Invariants
This section describes invariants that TLS endpoints and middleboxes
MUST follow. It also applies to earlier versions of TLS.
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TLS is designed to be securely and compatibly extensible. Newer
clients or servers, when communicating with newer peers, should
negotiate the most preferred common parameters. The TLS handshake
provides downgrade protection: Middleboxes passing traffic between a
newer client and newer server without terminating TLS should be
unable to influence the handshake (see Appendix F.1). At the same
time, deployments update at different rates, so a newer client or
server MAY continue to support older parameters, which would allow it
to interoperate with older endpoints.
For this to work, implementations MUST correctly handle extensible
fields:
* A client sending a ClientHello MUST support all parameters
advertised in it. Otherwise, the server may fail to interoperate
by selecting one of those parameters.
* A server receiving a ClientHello MUST correctly ignore all
unrecognized cipher suites, extensions, and other parameters.
Otherwise, it may fail to interoperate with newer clients. In TLS
1.3, a client receiving a CertificateRequest or NewSessionTicket
MUST also ignore all unrecognized extensions.
* A middlebox which terminates a TLS connection MUST behave as a
compliant TLS server (to the original client), including having a
certificate which the client is willing to accept, and also as a
compliant TLS client (to the original server), including verifying
the original server's certificate. In particular, it MUST
generate its own ClientHello containing only parameters it
understands, and it MUST generate a fresh ServerHello random
value, rather than forwarding the endpoint's value.
Note that TLS's protocol requirements and security analysis only
apply to the two connections separately. Safely deploying a TLS
terminator requires additional security considerations which are
beyond the scope of this document.
* A middlebox which forwards ClientHello parameters it does not
understand MUST NOT process any messages beyond that ClientHello.
It MUST forward all subsequent traffic unmodified. Otherwise, it
may fail to interoperate with newer clients and servers.
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Forwarded ClientHellos may contain advertisements for features not
supported by the middlebox, so the response may include future TLS
additions the middlebox does not recognize. These additions MAY
change any message beyond the ClientHello arbitrarily. In
particular, the values sent in the ServerHello might change, the
ServerHello format might change, and the TLSCiphertext format
might change.
The design of TLS 1.3 was constrained by widely deployed non-
compliant TLS middleboxes (see Appendix E.4); however, it does not
relax the invariants. Those middleboxes continue to be non-
compliant.
10. Security Considerations
Security issues are discussed throughout this memo, especially in
Appendix C, Appendix E, and Appendix F.
11. IANA Considerations
This document uses several registries that were originally created in
[RFC4346] and updated in [RFC8446] and [RFC8447]. The changes
between [RFC8446] and [RFC8447] this document are described in
Section 11.1. IANA has updated these to reference this document.
The registries and their allocation policies are below:
* TLS Cipher Suites registry: values with the first byte in the
range 0-254 (decimal) are assigned via Specification Required
[RFC8126]. Values with the first byte 255 (decimal) are reserved
for Private Use [RFC8126].
IANA has added the cipher suites listed in Appendix B.4 to the
registry. The "Value" and "Description" columns are taken from
the table. The "DTLS-OK" and "Recommended" columns are both
marked as "Y" for each new cipher suite.
* TLS ContentType registry: Future values are allocated via
Standards Action [RFC8126].
* TLS Alerts registry: Future values are allocated via Standards
Action [RFC8126]. IANA [is requested to/has] populated this
registry with the values from Appendix B.2. The "DTLS-OK" column
is marked as "Y" for all such values. Values marked as
"_RESERVED" have comments describing their previous usage.
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* TLS HandshakeType registry: Future values are allocated via
Standards Action [RFC8126]. IANA has updated this registry to
rename item 4 from "NewSessionTicket" to "new_session_ticket" and
populated this registry with the values from Appendix B.3. The
"DTLS-OK" column is marked as "Y" for all such values. Values
marked "_RESERVED" have comments describing their previous or
temporary usage.
This document also uses the TLS ExtensionType Values registry
originally created in [RFC4366]. IANA has updated it to reference
this document. Changes to the registry follow:
* IANA has updated the registration policy as follows:
Values with the first byte in the range 0-254 (decimal) are
assigned via Specification Required [RFC8126]. Values with the
first byte 255 (decimal) are reserved for Private Use [RFC8126].
* IANA has updated this registry to include the "key_share",
"pre_shared_key", "psk_key_exchange_modes", "early_data",
"cookie", "supported_versions", "certificate_authorities",
"oid_filters", "post_handshake_auth", and
"signature_algorithms_cert" extensions with the values defined in
this document and the "Recommended" value of "Y".
* IANA has updated this registry to include a "TLS 1.3" column which
lists the messages in which the extension may appear. This column
has been initially populated from the table in Section 4.2, with
any extension not listed there marked as "-" to indicate that it
is not used by TLS 1.3.
This document updates two entries in the TLS Certificate Types
registry originally created in [RFC6091] and updated in [RFC8447].
IANA has updated the entry for value 1 to have the name
"OpenPGP_RESERVED", "Recommended" value "N", and comment "Used in TLS
versions prior to 1.3." IANA has updated the entry for value 0 to
have the name "X509", "Recommended" value "Y", and comment "Was X.509
before TLS 1.3".
This document updates an entry in the TLS Certificate Status Types
registry originally created in [RFC6961]. IANA has updated the entry
for value 2 to have the name "ocsp_multi_RESERVED" and comment "Used
in TLS versions prior to 1.3".
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This document updates two entries in the TLS Supported Groups
registry (created under a different name by [RFC4492]; now maintained
by [RFC8422]) and updated by [RFC7919] and [RFC8447]. The entries
for values 29 and 30 (x25519 and x448) have been updated to also
refer to this document.
In addition, this document defines two new registries that are
maintained by IANA:
* TLS SignatureScheme registry: Values with the first byte in the
range 0-253 (decimal) are assigned via Specification Required
[RFC8126]. Values with the first byte 254 or 255 (decimal) are
reserved for Private Use [RFC8126]. Values with the first byte in
the range 0-6 or with the second byte in the range 0-3 that are
not currently allocated are reserved for backward compatibility.
This registry has a "Recommended" column. The registry has been
initially populated with the values described in Section 4.2.3.
The following values are marked as "Recommended":
ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256, ecdsa_secp384r1_sha384,
rsa_pss_rsae_sha256, rsa_pss_rsae_sha384, rsa_pss_rsae_sha512,
rsa_pss_pss_sha256, rsa_pss_pss_sha384, rsa_pss_pss_sha512, and
ed25519. The "Recommended" column is assigned a value of "N"
unless explicitly requested, and adding a value with a
"Recommended" value of "Y" requires Standards Action [RFC8126].
IESG Approval is REQUIRED for a Y->N transition.
* TLS PskKeyExchangeMode registry: Values in the range 0-253
(decimal) are assigned via Specification Required [RFC8126]. The
values 254 and 255 (decimal) are reserved for Private Use
[RFC8126]. This registry has a "Recommended" column. The
registry has been initially populated with psk_ke (0) and
psk_dhe_ke (1). Both are marked as "Recommended". The
"Recommended" column is assigned a value of "N" unless explicitly
requested, and adding a value with a "Recommended" value of "Y"
requires Standards Action [RFC8126]. IESG Approval is REQUIRED
for a Y->N transition.
11.1. Changes for this RFC
IANA [shall update/has updated] the TLS registries to reference this
document.
IANA [shall rename/has renamed] the "extended_master_secret" value in
the TLS ExtensionType Values registry to "extended_main_secret".
IANA [shall create/has created] a value for the "general_error" alert
in the TLS Alerts Registry with the value given in Section 6.
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12. References
12.1. Normative References
[GCM] Dworkin, M., "Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of
Operation: Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) and GMAC",
NIST Special Publication 800-38D, November 2007,
<https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-38D>.
[KEYAGREEMENT]
Barker, E., Chen, L., Roginsky, A., Vassilev, A., and R.
Davis, "Recommendation for pair-wise key-establishment
schemes using discrete logarithm cryptography", National
Institute of Standards and Technology,
DOI 10.6028/nist.sp.800-56ar3, April 2018,
<https://doi.org/10.6028/nist.sp.800-56ar3>.
[RFC2104] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2104, February 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2104>.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.
[RFC5116] McGrew, D., "An Interface and Algorithms for Authenticated
Encryption", RFC 5116, DOI 10.17487/RFC5116, January 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5116>.
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280>.
[RFC5705] Rescorla, E., "Keying Material Exporters for Transport
Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 5705, DOI 10.17487/RFC5705,
March 2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5705>.
[RFC5756] Turner, S., Brown, D., Yiu, K., Housley, R., and T. Polk,
"Updates for RSAES-OAEP and RSASSA-PSS Algorithm
Parameters", RFC 5756, DOI 10.17487/RFC5756, January 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5756>.
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[RFC5869] Krawczyk, H. and P. Eronen, "HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand
Key Derivation Function (HKDF)", RFC 5869,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5869, May 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5869>.
[RFC6066] Eastlake 3rd, D., "Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Extensions: Extension Definitions", RFC 6066,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6066, January 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6066>.
[RFC6655] McGrew, D. and D. Bailey, "AES-CCM Cipher Suites for
Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 6655,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6655, July 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6655>.
[RFC6960] Santesson, S., Myers, M., Ankney, R., Malpani, A.,
Galperin, S., and C. Adams, "X.509 Internet Public Key
Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP",
RFC 6960, DOI 10.17487/RFC6960, June 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6960>.
[RFC6961] Pettersen, Y., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Multiple Certificate Status Request Extension", RFC 6961,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6961, June 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6961>.
[RFC6962] Laurie, B., Langley, A., and E. Kasper, "Certificate
Transparency", RFC 6962, DOI 10.17487/RFC6962, June 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6962>.
[RFC6979] Pornin, T., "Deterministic Usage of the Digital Signature
Algorithm (DSA) and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature
Algorithm (ECDSA)", RFC 6979, DOI 10.17487/RFC6979, August
2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6979>.
[RFC7301] Friedl, S., Popov, A., Langley, A., and E. Stephan,
"Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol
Negotiation Extension", RFC 7301, DOI 10.17487/RFC7301,
July 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7301>.
[RFC7507] Moeller, B. and A. Langley, "TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher
Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing Protocol Downgrade
Attacks", RFC 7507, DOI 10.17487/RFC7507, April 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7507>.
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[RFC7627] Bhargavan, K., Ed., Delignat-Lavaud, A., Pironti, A.,
Langley, A., and M. Ray, "Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Session Hash and Extended Master Secret Extension",
RFC 7627, DOI 10.17487/RFC7627, September 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7627>.
[RFC7748] Langley, A., Hamburg, M., and S. Turner, "Elliptic Curves
for Security", RFC 7748, DOI 10.17487/RFC7748, January
2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7748>.
[RFC7919] Gillmor, D., "Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman
Ephemeral Parameters for Transport Layer Security (TLS)",
RFC 7919, DOI 10.17487/RFC7919, August 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7919>.
[RFC8017] Moriarty, K., Ed., Kaliski, B., Jonsson, J., and A. Rusch,
"PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.2",
RFC 8017, DOI 10.17487/RFC8017, November 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8017>.
[RFC8032] Josefsson, S. and I. Liusvaara, "Edwards-Curve Digital
Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)", RFC 8032,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8032, January 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8032>.
[RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.
[RFC8439] Nir, Y. and A. Langley, "ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF
Protocols", RFC 8439, DOI 10.17487/RFC8439, June 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8439>.
[RFC8996] Moriarty, K. and S. Farrell, "Deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS
1.1", BCP 195, RFC 8996, DOI 10.17487/RFC8996, March 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8996>.
[SHS] "Secure hash standard", National Institute of Standards
and Technology (U.S.), DOI 10.6028/nist.fips.180-4, 2015,
<https://doi.org/10.6028/nist.fips.180-4>.
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[X690] ITU-T, "Information technology - ASN.1 encoding Rules:
Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical
Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules
(DER)", ITU-T X.690 , February 2021,
<https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-X.690-202102-I/en>.
12.2. Informative References
[AEAD-LIMITS]
Luykx, A. and K. Paterson, "Limits on Authenticated
Encryption Use in TLS", August 2017,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/051.pdf>.
[BBFGKZ16] Bhargavan, K., Brzuska, C., Fournet, C., Green, M.,
Kohlweiss, M., and S. Zanella-Beguelin, "Downgrade
Resilience in Key-Exchange Protocols", IEEE, 2016 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP),
DOI 10.1109/sp.2016.37, May 2016,
<https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2016.37>.
[BBK17] Bhargavan, K., Blanchet, B., and N. Kobeissi, "Verified
Models and Reference Implementations for the TLS 1.3
Standard Candidate", IEEE, 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security
and Privacy (SP) pp. 483-502, DOI 10.1109/sp.2017.26, May
2017, <https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2017.26>.
[BDFKPPRSZZ16]
Bhargavan, K., Delignat-Lavaud, A., Fournet, C.,
Kohlweiss, M., Pan, J., Protzenko, J., Rastogi, A., Swamy,
N., Zanella-Beguelin, S., and J. Zinzindohoue,
"Implementing and Proving the TLS 1.3 Record Layer",
Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (San
Jose) 2017 , December 2016,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1178>.
[Ben17a] Benjamin, D., "Presentation before the TLS WG at IETF
100", 2017,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/100/materials/
slides-100-tls-sessa-tls13/>.
[Ben17b] Benjamin, D., "Additional TLS 1.3 results from Chrome",
2017, <https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/
msg25168.html>.
[Blei98] Bleichenbacher, D., "Chosen Ciphertext Attacks against
Protocols Based on RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1",
Proceedings of CRYPTO '98 , 1998.
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[BMMRT15] Badertscher, C., Matt, C., Maurer, U., Rogaway, P., and B.
Tackmann, "Augmented Secure Channels and the Goal of the
TLS 1.3 Record Layer", ProvSec 2015 , September 2015,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/394>.
[BT16] Bellare, M. and B. Tackmann, "The Multi-User Security of
Authenticated Encryption: AES-GCM in TLS 1.3", Proceedings
of CRYPTO 2016 , July 2016,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/564>.
[CCG16] Cohn-Gordon, K., Cremers, C., and L. Garratt, "On Post-
compromise Security", IEEE, 2016 IEEE 29th Computer
Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) pp. 164-178,
DOI 10.1109/csf.2016.19, June 2016,
<https://doi.org/10.1109/csf.2016.19>.
[CHECKOWAY]
Checkoway, S., Maskiewicz, J., Garman, C., Fried, J.,
Cohney, S., Green, M., Heninger, N., Weinmann, R.,
Rescorla, E., and H. Shacham, "A Systematic Analysis of
the Juniper Dual EC Incident", ACM, Proceedings of the
2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications
Security pp. 468-479, DOI 10.1145/2976749.2978395, October
2016, <https://doi.org/10.1145/2976749.2978395>.
[CHHSV17] Cremers, C., Horvat, M., Hoyland, J., van der Merwe, T.,
and S. Scott, "Awkward Handshake: Possible mismatch of
client/server view on client authentication in post-
handshake mode in Revision 18", message to the TLS mailing
list , February 2017, <https://www.ietf.org/mail-
archive/web/tls/current/msg22382.html>.
[CHSV16] Cremers, C., Horvat, M., Scott, S., and T. van der Merwe,
"Automated Analysis and Verification of TLS 1.3: 0-RTT,
Resumption and Delayed Authentication", IEEE, 2016 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) pp. 470-485,
DOI 10.1109/sp.2016.35, May 2016,
<https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2016.35>.
[CK01] Canetti, R. and H. Krawczyk, "Analysis of Key-Exchange
Protocols and Their Use for Building Secure Channels",
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science pp. 453-474, DOI 10.1007/3-540-44987-6_28,
ISBN ["9783540420705", "9783540449874"], 2001,
<https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44987-6_28>.
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[CLINIC] Miller, B., Huang, L., Joseph, A., and J. Tygar, "I Know
Why You Went to the Clinic: Risks and Realization of HTTPS
Traffic Analysis", Springer International Publishing,
Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp. 143-163,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08506-7_8, ISBN ["9783319085050",
"9783319085067"], 2014,
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08506-7_8>.
[DFGS15] Dowling, B., Fischlin, M., Guenther, F., and D. Stebila,
"A Cryptographic Analysis of the TLS 1.3 draft-10 Full and
Pre-shared Key Handshake Protocol", Proceedings of ACM CCS
2015 , October 2016, <https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/914>.
[DFGS16] Dowling, B., Fischlin, M., Guenther, F., and D. Stebila,
"A Cryptographic Analysis of the TLS 1.3 draft-10 Full and
Pre-shared Key Handshake Protocol", TRON 2016 , February
2016, <https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/081>.
[DH76] Diffie, W. and M. Hellman, "New directions in
cryptography", Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 644-654,
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<https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1976.1055638>.
[DOW92] Diffie, W., Van Oorschot, P., and M. Wiener,
"Authentication and authenticated key exchanges", Springer
Science and Business Media LLC, Designs, Codes and
Cryptography vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 107-125,
DOI 10.1007/bf00124891, June 1992,
<https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00124891>.
[DSA-1571-1]
The Debian Project, "openssl -- predictable random number
generator", May 2008,
<https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571>.
[DSS] "Digital Signature Standard (DSS)", National Institute of
Standards and Technology (U.S.),
DOI 10.6028/nist.fips.186-5, February 2023,
<https://doi.org/10.6028/nist.fips.186-5>.
[ECDP] Chen, L., Moody, D., Regenscheid, A., Robinson, A., and K.
Randall, "Recommendations for Discrete Logarithm-based
Cryptography:: Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters", National
Institute of Standards and Technology,
DOI 10.6028/nist.sp.800-186, February 2023,
<https://doi.org/10.6028/nist.sp.800-186>.
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[FETCH] WHATWG, "Fetch Standard", February 2025,
<https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/>.
[FG17] Fischlin, M. and F. Guenther, "Replay Attacks on Zero
Round-Trip Time: The Case of the TLS 1.3 Handshake
Candidates", Proceedings of Euro S&P 2017 , 2017,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/082>.
[FGSW16] Fischlin, M., Guenther, F., Schmidt, B., and B. Warinschi,
"Key Confirmation in Key Exchange: A Formal Treatment and
Implications for TLS 1.3", Proceedings of IEEE Symposium
on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2016 , 2016,
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[FW15] Weimer, F., "Factoring RSA Keys With TLS Perfect Forward
Secrecy", September 2015.
[HCJC16] Husák, M., Čermák, M., Jirsík, T., and P. Čeleda, "HTTPS
traffic analysis and client identification using passive
SSL/TLS fingerprinting", Springer Science and Business
Media LLC, EURASIP Journal on Information Security vol.
2016, no. 1, DOI 10.1186/s13635-016-0030-7, February 2016,
<https://doi.org/10.1186/s13635-016-0030-7>.
[HGFS15] Hlauschek, C., Gruber, M., Fankhauser, F., and C. Schanes,
"Prying Open Pandora's Box: KCI Attacks against TLS",
Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies ,
2015.
[I-D.ietf-tls-esni]
Rescorla, E., Oku, K., Sullivan, N., and C. A. Wood, "TLS
Encrypted Client Hello", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-tls-esni-22, 15 September 2024,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tls-
esni-22>.
[JSS15] Jager, T., Schwenk, J., and J. Somorovsky, "On the
Security of TLS 1.3 and QUIC Against Weaknesses in PKCS#1
v1.5 Encryption", ACM, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSAC
Conference on Computer and Communications Security pp.
1185-1196, DOI 10.1145/2810103.2813657, October 2015,
<https://doi.org/10.1145/2810103.2813657>.
[Kraw10] Krawczyk, H., "Cryptographic Extraction and Key
Derivation: The HKDF Scheme", Proceedings of CRYPTO 2010 ,
2010, <https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/264>.
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[Kraw16] Krawczyk, H., "A Unilateral-to-Mutual Authentication
Compiler for Key Exchange (with Applications to Client
Authentication in TLS 1.3", Proceedings of ACM CCS 2016 ,
October 2016, <https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/711>.
[KW16] Krawczyk, H. and H. Wee, "The OPTLS Protocol and TLS 1.3",
Proceedings of Euro S&P 2016 , 2016,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/978>.
[LXZFH16] Li, X., Xu, J., Zhang, Z., Feng, D., and H. Hu, "Multiple
Handshakes Security of TLS 1.3 Candidates", IEEE, 2016
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) pp. 486-505,
DOI 10.1109/sp.2016.36, May 2016,
<https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2016.36>.
[Mac17] MacCarthaigh, C., "Security Review of TLS1.3 0-RTT", March
2017, <https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/1001>.
[MM24] Moustafa, M., Sethi, M., and T. Aura, "Misbinding Raw
Public Keys to Identities in TLS", 2024,
<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.09770>.
[PS18] Patton, C. and T. Shrimpton, "Partially specified
channels: The TLS 1.3 record layer without elision", 2018,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/634>.
[PSK-FINISHED]
Cremers, C., Horvat, M., van der Merwe, T., and S. Scott,
"Revision 10: possible attack if client authentication is
allowed during PSK", message to the TLS mailing list, ,
2015, <https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/
msg18215.html>.
[REKEY] Abdalla, M. and M. Bellare, "Increasing the Lifetime of a
Key: A Comparative Analysis of the Security of Re-keying
Techniques", Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science pp. 546-559,
DOI 10.1007/3-540-44448-3_42, ISBN ["9783540414049",
"9783540444480"], 2000,
<https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44448-3_42>.
[Res17a] Rescorla, E., "Preliminary data on Firefox TLS 1.3
Middlebox experiment", message to the TLS mailing list ,
2017, <https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/
msg25091.html>.
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[Res17b] Rescorla, E., "More compatibility measurement results",
message to the TLS mailing list , December 2017,
<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/
msg25179.html>.
[RFC2246] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
RFC 2246, DOI 10.17487/RFC2246, January 1999,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2246>.
[RFC3552] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3552, July 2003,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3552>.
[RFC4086] Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
"Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4086>.
[RFC4346] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Protocol Version 1.1", RFC 4346,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4346, April 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4346>.
[RFC4366] Blake-Wilson, S., Nystrom, M., Hopwood, D., Mikkelsen, J.,
and T. Wright, "Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Extensions", RFC 4366, DOI 10.17487/RFC4366, April 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4366>.
[RFC4492] Blake-Wilson, S., Bolyard, N., Gupta, V., Hawk, C., and B.
Moeller, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites
for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 4492,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4492, May 2006,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4492>.
[RFC5077] Salowey, J., Zhou, H., Eronen, P., and H. Tschofenig,
"Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session Resumption without
Server-Side State", RFC 5077, DOI 10.17487/RFC5077,
January 2008, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5077>.
[RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5246, August 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5246>.
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[RFC5763] Fischl, J., Tschofenig, H., and E. Rescorla, "Framework
for Establishing a Secure Real-time Transport Protocol
(SRTP) Security Context Using Datagram Transport Layer
Security (DTLS)", RFC 5763, DOI 10.17487/RFC5763, May
2010, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5763>.
[RFC5764] McGrew, D. and E. Rescorla, "Datagram Transport Layer
Security (DTLS) Extension to Establish Keys for the Secure
Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 5764,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5764, May 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5764>.
[RFC5929] Altman, J., Williams, N., and L. Zhu, "Channel Bindings
for TLS", RFC 5929, DOI 10.17487/RFC5929, July 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5929>.
[RFC6091] Mavrogiannopoulos, N. and D. Gillmor, "Using OpenPGP Keys
for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authentication",
RFC 6091, DOI 10.17487/RFC6091, February 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6091>.
[RFC6101] Freier, A., Karlton, P., and P. Kocher, "The Secure
Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol Version 3.0", RFC 6101,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6101, August 2011,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6101>.
[RFC6176] Turner, S. and T. Polk, "Prohibiting Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL) Version 2.0", RFC 6176, DOI 10.17487/RFC6176, March
2011, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6176>.
[RFC6347] Rescorla, E. and N. Modadugu, "Datagram Transport Layer
Security Version 1.2", RFC 6347, DOI 10.17487/RFC6347,
January 2012, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6347>.
[RFC6520] Seggelmann, R., Tuexen, M., and M. Williams, "Transport
Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security
(DTLS) Heartbeat Extension", RFC 6520,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6520, February 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6520>.
[RFC7250] Wouters, P., Ed., Tschofenig, H., Ed., Gilmore, J.,
Weiler, S., and T. Kivinen, "Using Raw Public Keys in
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport
Layer Security (DTLS)", RFC 7250, DOI 10.17487/RFC7250,
June 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7250>.
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[RFC7465] Popov, A., "Prohibiting RC4 Cipher Suites", RFC 7465,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7465, February 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7465>.
[RFC7568] Barnes, R., Thomson, M., Pironti, A., and A. Langley,
"Deprecating Secure Sockets Layer Version 3.0", RFC 7568,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7568, June 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7568>.
[RFC7624] Barnes, R., Schneier, B., Jennings, C., Hardie, T.,
Trammell, B., Huitema, C., and D. Borkmann,
"Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance: A
Threat Model and Problem Statement", RFC 7624,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7624, August 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7624>.
[RFC7685] Langley, A., "A Transport Layer Security (TLS) ClientHello
Padding Extension", RFC 7685, DOI 10.17487/RFC7685,
October 2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7685>.
[RFC7924] Santesson, S. and H. Tschofenig, "Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Cached Information Extension", RFC 7924,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7924, July 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7924>.
[RFC8305] Schinazi, D. and T. Pauly, "Happy Eyeballs Version 2:
Better Connectivity Using Concurrency", RFC 8305,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8305, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8305>.
[RFC8422] Nir, Y., Josefsson, S., and M. Pegourie-Gonnard, "Elliptic
Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer
Security (TLS) Versions 1.2 and Earlier", RFC 8422,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8422, August 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8422>.
[RFC8444] Psenak, P., Ed., Kumar, N., Wijnands, IJ., Dolganow, A.,
Przygienda, T., Zhang, J., and S. Aldrin, "OSPFv2
Extensions for Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)",
RFC 8444, DOI 10.17487/RFC8444, November 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8444>.
[RFC8446] Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
Version 1.3", RFC 8446, DOI 10.17487/RFC8446, August 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8446>.
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[RFC8447] Salowey, J. and S. Turner, "IANA Registry Updates for TLS
and DTLS", RFC 8447, DOI 10.17487/RFC8447, August 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8447>.
[RFC8448] Thomson, M., "Example Handshake Traces for TLS 1.3",
RFC 8448, DOI 10.17487/RFC8448, January 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8448>.
[RFC8449] Thomson, M., "Record Size Limit Extension for TLS",
RFC 8449, DOI 10.17487/RFC8449, August 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8449>.
[RFC8773] Housley, R., "TLS 1.3 Extension for Certificate-Based
Authentication with an External Pre-Shared Key", RFC 8773,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8773, March 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8773>.
[RFC8844] Thomson, M. and E. Rescorla, "Unknown Key-Share Attacks on
Uses of TLS with the Session Description Protocol (SDP)",
RFC 8844, DOI 10.17487/RFC8844, January 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8844>.
[RFC8849] Even, R. and J. Lennox, "Mapping RTP Streams to
Controlling Multiple Streams for Telepresence (CLUE) Media
Captures", RFC 8849, DOI 10.17487/RFC8849, January 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8849>.
[RFC8870] Jennings, C., Mattsson, J., McGrew, D., Wing, D., and F.
Andreasen, "Encrypted Key Transport for DTLS and Secure
RTP", RFC 8870, DOI 10.17487/RFC8870, January 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8870>.
[RFC8879] Ghedini, A. and V. Vasiliev, "TLS Certificate
Compression", RFC 8879, DOI 10.17487/RFC8879, December
2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8879>.
[RFC8937] Cremers, C., Garratt, L., Smyshlyaev, S., Sullivan, N.,
and C. Wood, "Randomness Improvements for Security
Protocols", RFC 8937, DOI 10.17487/RFC8937, October 2020,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8937>.
[RFC9001] Thomson, M., Ed. and S. Turner, Ed., "Using TLS to Secure
QUIC", RFC 9001, DOI 10.17487/RFC9001, May 2021,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9001>.
[RFC9112] Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
Ed., "HTTP/1.1", STD 99, RFC 9112, DOI 10.17487/RFC9112,
June 2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9112>.
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[RFC9146] Rescorla, E., Ed., Tschofenig, H., Ed., Fossati, T., and
A. Kraus, "Connection Identifier for DTLS 1.2", RFC 9146,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9146, March 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9146>.
[RFC9147] Rescorla, E., Tschofenig, H., and N. Modadugu, "The
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Protocol Version
1.3", RFC 9147, DOI 10.17487/RFC9147, April 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9147>.
[RFC9149] Pauly, T., Schinazi, D., and C.A. Wood, "TLS Ticket
Requests", RFC 9149, DOI 10.17487/RFC9149, April 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9149>.
[RFC9162] Laurie, B., Messeri, E., and R. Stradling, "Certificate
Transparency Version 2.0", RFC 9162, DOI 10.17487/RFC9162,
December 2021, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9162>.
[RFC9345] Barnes, R., Iyengar, S., Sullivan, N., and E. Rescorla,
"Delegated Credentials for TLS and DTLS", RFC 9345,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9345, July 2023,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9345>.
[RFC9525] Saint-Andre, P. and R. Salz, "Service Identity in TLS",
RFC 9525, DOI 10.17487/RFC9525, November 2023,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9525>.
[RSA] Rivest, R., Shamir, A., and L. Adleman, "A method for
obtaining digital signatures and public-key
cryptosystems", Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
Communications of the ACM vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 120-126,
DOI 10.1145/359340.359342, February 1978,
<https://doi.org/10.1145/359340.359342>.
[SIGMA] Krawczyk, H., "SIGMA: The ‘SIGn-and-MAc’ Approach to
Authenticated Diffie-Hellman and Its Use in the IKE
Protocols", Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in
Computer Science pp. 400-425,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-45146-4_24, ISBN ["9783540406747",
"9783540451464"], 2003,
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45146-4_24>.
[SLOTH] Bhargavan, K. and G. Leurent, "Transcript Collision
Attacks: Breaking Authentication in TLS, IKE, and SSH",
Internet Society, Proceedings 2016 Network and Distributed
System Security Symposium, DOI 10.14722/ndss.2016.23418,
2016, <https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2016.23418>.
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[SSL2] Hickman, K., "The SSL Protocol", 9 February 1995.
[TIMING] Boneh, D. and D. Brumley, "Remote Timing Attacks Are
Practical", USENIX Security Symposium, 2003.
[X501] ITU-T, "Information Technology - Open Systems
Interconnection - The Directory: Models", ISO/IEC
9594-2:2020 , October 2019.
Appendix A. State Machine
This appendix provides a summary of the legal state transitions for
the client and server handshakes. State names (in all capitals,
e.g., START) have no formal meaning but are provided for ease of
comprehension. Actions which are taken only in certain circumstances
are indicated in []. The notation "K_{send,recv} = foo" means "set
the send/recv key to the given key".
A.1. Client
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START <----+
Send ClientHello | | Recv HelloRetryRequest
[K_send = early data] | |
v |
+-> WAIT_SH ----+
| | Recv ServerHello
| | K_recv = handshake
Can | V
send | WAIT_EE
early | | Recv EncryptedExtensions
data | +---------+-------+
| Using | | Using certificate
| PSK | v
| | WAIT_CERT_CR
| | Recv | | Recv CertificateRequest
| | Certificate | v
| | | WAIT_CERT
| | | | Recv Certificate
| | v v
| | WAIT_CV
| | | Recv CertificateVerify
| +-> WAIT_FINISHED <-+
| | Recv Finished
+-> | [Send EndOfEarlyData]
| K_send = handshake
| [Send Certificate [+ CertificateVerify]]
Can send | Send Finished
app data --> | K_send = K_recv = application
after here v
CONNECTED
Note that with the transitions as shown above, clients may send
alerts that derive from post-ServerHello messages in the clear or
with the early data keys. If clients need to send such alerts, they
SHOULD first rekey to the handshake keys if possible.
A.2. Server
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START <-----+
Recv ClientHello | | Send HelloRetryRequest
v |
RECVD_CH ----+
| Select parameters
v
NEGOTIATED
| Send ServerHello
| K_send = handshake
| Send EncryptedExtensions
| [Send CertificateRequest]
Can send | [Send Certificate + CertificateVerify]
app data | Send Finished
after --> | K_send = application
here +--------+--------+
No 0-RTT | | 0-RTT
| |
K_recv = handshake | | K_recv = early data
[Skip decrypt errors] | +------> WAIT_EOED --+
| | Recv | | Recv EndOfEarlyData
| | early data | | K_recv = handshake
| +------------+ |
| |
+-> WAIT_FLIGHT2 <--------+
|
+--------+--------+
No auth | | Cert-based client auth
| |
| v
| WAIT_CERT
| Recv | | Recv Certificate
| empty | v
| Certificate | WAIT_CV
| | | Recv
| v | CertificateVerify
+-> WAIT_FINISHED <---+
| Recv Finished
| K_recv = application
v
CONNECTED
Appendix B. Protocol Data Structures and Constant Values
This appendix provides the normative protocol types and the
definitions for constants. Values listed as "_RESERVED" were used in
previous versions of TLS and are listed here for completeness. TLS
1.3 implementations MUST NOT send them but might receive them from
older TLS implementations.
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B.1. Record Layer
enum {
invalid(0),
change_cipher_spec(20),
alert(21),
handshake(22),
application_data(23),
(255)
} ContentType;
struct {
ContentType type;
ProtocolVersion legacy_record_version;
uint16 length;
opaque fragment[TLSPlaintext.length];
} TLSPlaintext;
struct {
opaque content[TLSPlaintext.length];
ContentType type;
uint8 zeros[length_of_padding];
} TLSInnerPlaintext;
struct {
ContentType opaque_type = application_data; /* 23 */
ProtocolVersion legacy_record_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
uint16 length;
opaque encrypted_record[TLSCiphertext.length];
} TLSCiphertext;
B.2. Alert Messages
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enum { warning(1), fatal(2), (255) } AlertLevel;
enum {
close_notify(0),
unexpected_message(10),
bad_record_mac(20),
decryption_failed_RESERVED(21),
record_overflow(22),
decompression_failure_RESERVED(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_RESERVED(60),
protocol_version(70),
insufficient_security(71),
internal_error(80),
inappropriate_fallback(86),
user_canceled(90),
no_renegotiation_RESERVED(100),
missing_extension(109),
unsupported_extension(110),
certificate_unobtainable_RESERVED(111),
unrecognized_name(112),
bad_certificate_status_response(113),
bad_certificate_hash_value_RESERVED(114),
unknown_psk_identity(115),
certificate_required(116),
general_error(117),
no_application_protocol(120),
(255)
} AlertDescription;
struct {
AlertLevel level;
AlertDescription description;
} Alert;
B.3. Handshake Protocol
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enum {
hello_request_RESERVED(0),
client_hello(1),
server_hello(2),
hello_verify_request_RESERVED(3),
new_session_ticket(4),
end_of_early_data(5),
hello_retry_request_RESERVED(6),
encrypted_extensions(8),
certificate(11),
server_key_exchange_RESERVED(12),
certificate_request(13),
server_hello_done_RESERVED(14),
certificate_verify(15),
client_key_exchange_RESERVED(16),
finished(20),
certificate_url_RESERVED(21),
certificate_status_RESERVED(22),
supplemental_data_RESERVED(23),
key_update(24),
message_hash(254),
(255)
} HandshakeType;
struct {
HandshakeType msg_type; /* handshake type */
uint24 length; /* remaining bytes in message */
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello: ClientHello;
case server_hello: ServerHello;
case end_of_early_data: EndOfEarlyData;
case encrypted_extensions: EncryptedExtensions;
case certificate_request: CertificateRequest;
case certificate: Certificate;
case certificate_verify: CertificateVerify;
case finished: Finished;
case new_session_ticket: NewSessionTicket;
case key_update: KeyUpdate;
};
} Handshake;
B.3.1. Key Exchange Messages
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uint16 ProtocolVersion;
opaque Random[32];
uint8 CipherSuite[2]; /* Cryptographic suite selector */
struct {
ProtocolVersion legacy_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
Random random;
opaque legacy_session_id<0..32>;
CipherSuite cipher_suites<2..2^16-2>;
opaque legacy_compression_methods<1..2^8-1>;
Extension extensions<8..2^16-1>;
} ClientHello;
struct {
ProtocolVersion legacy_version = 0x0303; /* TLS v1.2 */
Random random;
opaque legacy_session_id_echo<0..32>;
CipherSuite cipher_suite;
uint8 legacy_compression_method = 0;
Extension extensions<6..2^16-1>;
} ServerHello;
struct {
ExtensionType extension_type;
opaque extension_data<0..2^16-1>;
} Extension;
enum {
server_name(0), /* RFC 6066 */
max_fragment_length(1), /* RFC 6066 */
status_request(5), /* RFC 6066 */
supported_groups(10), /* RFC 8422, 7919 */
signature_algorithms(13), /* RFC 8446 */
use_srtp(14), /* RFC 5764 */
heartbeat(15), /* RFC 6520 */
application_layer_protocol_negotiation(16), /* RFC 7301 */
signed_certificate_timestamp(18), /* RFC 6962 */
client_certificate_type(19), /* RFC 7250 */
server_certificate_type(20), /* RFC 7250 */
padding(21), /* RFC 7685 */
pre_shared_key(41), /* RFC 8446 */
early_data(42), /* RFC 8446 */
supported_versions(43), /* RFC 8446 */
cookie(44), /* RFC 8446 */
psk_key_exchange_modes(45), /* RFC 8446 */
certificate_authorities(47), /* RFC 8446 */
oid_filters(48), /* RFC 8446 */
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post_handshake_auth(49), /* RFC 8446 */
signature_algorithms_cert(50), /* RFC 8446 */
key_share(51), /* RFC 8446 */
(65535)
} ExtensionType;
struct {
NamedGroup group;
opaque key_exchange<1..2^16-1>;
} KeyShareEntry;
struct {
KeyShareEntry client_shares<0..2^16-1>;
} KeyShareClientHello;
struct {
NamedGroup selected_group;
} KeyShareHelloRetryRequest;
struct {
KeyShareEntry server_share;
} KeyShareServerHello;
struct {
uint8 legacy_form = 4;
opaque X[coordinate_length];
opaque Y[coordinate_length];
} UncompressedPointRepresentation;
enum { psk_ke(0), psk_dhe_ke(1), (255) } PskKeyExchangeMode;
struct {
PskKeyExchangeMode ke_modes<1..255>;
} PskKeyExchangeModes;
struct {} Empty;
struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case new_session_ticket: uint32 max_early_data_size;
case client_hello: Empty;
case encrypted_extensions: Empty;
};
} EarlyDataIndication;
struct {
opaque identity<1..2^16-1>;
uint32 obfuscated_ticket_age;
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} PskIdentity;
opaque PskBinderEntry<32..255>;
struct {
PskIdentity identities<7..2^16-1>;
PskBinderEntry binders<33..2^16-1>;
} OfferedPsks;
struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello: OfferedPsks;
case server_hello: uint16 selected_identity;
};
} PreSharedKeyExtension;
B.3.1.1. Version Extension
struct {
select (Handshake.msg_type) {
case client_hello:
ProtocolVersion versions<2..254>;
case server_hello: /* and HelloRetryRequest */
ProtocolVersion selected_version;
};
} SupportedVersions;
B.3.1.2. Cookie Extension
struct {
opaque cookie<1..2^16-1>;
} Cookie;
B.3.1.3. Signature Algorithm Extension
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enum {
/* RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 algorithms */
rsa_pkcs1_sha256(0x0401),
rsa_pkcs1_sha384(0x0501),
rsa_pkcs1_sha512(0x0601),
/* ECDSA algorithms */
ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256(0x0403),
ecdsa_secp384r1_sha384(0x0503),
ecdsa_secp521r1_sha512(0x0603),
/* RSASSA-PSS algorithms with public key OID rsaEncryption */
rsa_pss_rsae_sha256(0x0804),
rsa_pss_rsae_sha384(0x0805),
rsa_pss_rsae_sha512(0x0806),
/* EdDSA algorithms */
ed25519(0x0807),
ed448(0x0808),
/* RSASSA-PSS algorithms with public key OID RSASSA-PSS */
rsa_pss_pss_sha256(0x0809),
rsa_pss_pss_sha384(0x080a),
rsa_pss_pss_sha512(0x080b),
/* Legacy algorithms */
rsa_pkcs1_sha1(0x0201),
ecdsa_sha1(0x0203),
/* Reserved Code Points */
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0000..0x0200),
dsa_sha1_RESERVED(0x0202),
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0204..0x0400),
dsa_sha256_RESERVED(0x0402),
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0404..0x0500),
dsa_sha384_RESERVED(0x0502),
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0504..0x0600),
dsa_sha512_RESERVED(0x0602),
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0604..0x06FF),
private_use(0xFE00..0xFFFF),
(0xFFFF)
} SignatureScheme;
struct {
SignatureScheme supported_signature_algorithms<2..2^16-2>;
} SignatureSchemeList;
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B.3.1.4. Supported Groups Extension
enum {
unallocated_RESERVED(0x0000),
/* Elliptic Curve Groups (ECDHE) */
obsolete_RESERVED(0x0001..0x0016),
secp256r1(0x0017), secp384r1(0x0018), secp521r1(0x0019),
obsolete_RESERVED(0x001A..0x001C),
x25519(0x001D), x448(0x001E),
/* Finite Field Groups (DHE) */
ffdhe2048(0x0100), ffdhe3072(0x0101), ffdhe4096(0x0102),
ffdhe6144(0x0103), ffdhe8192(0x0104),
/* Reserved Code Points */
ffdhe_private_use(0x01FC..0x01FF),
ecdhe_private_use(0xFE00..0xFEFF),
obsolete_RESERVED(0xFF01..0xFF02),
(0xFFFF)
} NamedGroup;
struct {
NamedGroup named_group_list<2..2^16-1>;
} NamedGroupList;
Values within "obsolete_RESERVED" ranges are used in previous
versions of TLS and MUST NOT be offered or negotiated by TLS 1.3
implementations. The obsolete curves have various known/theoretical
weaknesses or have had very little usage, in some cases only due to
unintentional server configuration issues. They are no longer
considered appropriate for general use and should be assumed to be
potentially unsafe. The set of curves specified here is sufficient
for interoperability with all currently deployed and properly
configured TLS implementations.
B.3.2. Server Parameters Messages
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opaque DistinguishedName<1..2^16-1>;
struct {
DistinguishedName authorities<3..2^16-1>;
} CertificateAuthoritiesExtension;
struct {
opaque certificate_extension_oid<1..2^8-1>;
opaque certificate_extension_values<0..2^16-1>;
} OIDFilter;
struct {
OIDFilter filters<0..2^16-1>;
} OIDFilterExtension;
struct {} PostHandshakeAuth;
struct {
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} EncryptedExtensions;
struct {
opaque certificate_request_context<0..2^8-1>;
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateRequest;
B.3.3. Authentication Messages
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enum {
X509(0),
OpenPGP_RESERVED(1),
RawPublicKey(2),
(255)
} CertificateType;
struct {
select (certificate_type) {
case RawPublicKey:
/* From RFC 7250 ASN.1_subjectPublicKeyInfo */
opaque ASN1_subjectPublicKeyInfo<1..2^24-1>;
case X509:
opaque cert_data<1..2^24-1>;
};
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateEntry;
struct {
opaque certificate_request_context<0..2^8-1>;
CertificateEntry certificate_list<0..2^24-1>;
} Certificate;
struct {
SignatureScheme algorithm;
opaque signature<0..2^16-1>;
} CertificateVerify;
struct {
opaque verify_data[Hash.length];
} Finished;
B.3.4. Ticket Establishment
struct {
uint32 ticket_lifetime;
uint32 ticket_age_add;
opaque ticket_nonce<0..255>;
opaque ticket<1..2^16-1>;
Extension extensions<0..2^16-1>;
} NewSessionTicket;
B.3.5. Updating Keys
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struct {} EndOfEarlyData;
enum {
update_not_requested(0), update_requested(1), (255)
} KeyUpdateRequest;
struct {
KeyUpdateRequest request_update;
} KeyUpdate;
B.4. Cipher Suites
A cipher suite defines the pair of the AEAD algorithm and hash
algorithm to be used with HKDF. Cipher suite names follow the naming
convention:
CipherSuite TLS_AEAD_HASH = VALUE;
+===========+================================================+
| Component | Contents |
+===========+================================================+
| TLS | The string "TLS" |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------+
| AEAD | The AEAD algorithm used for record protection |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------+
| HASH | The hash algorithm used with HKDF |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------+
| VALUE | The two byte ID assigned for this cipher suite |
+-----------+------------------------------------------------+
Table 4: Cipher Suite Name Structure
This specification defines the following cipher suites for use with
TLS 1.3.
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+==============================+=============+
| Description | Value |
+==============================+=============+
| TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 | {0x13,0x01} |
+------------------------------+-------------+
| TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 | {0x13,0x02} |
+------------------------------+-------------+
| TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 | {0x13,0x03} |
+------------------------------+-------------+
| TLS_AES_128_CCM_SHA256 | {0x13,0x04} |
+------------------------------+-------------+
| TLS_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256 | {0x13,0x05} |
+------------------------------+-------------+
Table 5: Cipher Suite List
The corresponding AEAD algorithms AEAD_AES_128_GCM, AEAD_AES_256_GCM,
and AEAD_AES_128_CCM are defined in [RFC5116].
AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305 is defined in [RFC8439]. AEAD_AES_128_CCM_8
is defined in [RFC6655]. The corresponding hash algorithms are
defined in [SHS].
Although TLS 1.3 uses the same cipher suite space as previous
versions of TLS, TLS 1.3 cipher suites are defined differently, only
specifying the symmetric ciphers, and cannot be used for TLS 1.2.
Similarly, cipher suites for TLS 1.2 and lower cannot be used with
TLS 1.3.
New cipher suite values are assigned by IANA as described in
Section 11.
Appendix C. Implementation Notes
The TLS protocol cannot prevent many common security mistakes. This
appendix provides several recommendations to assist implementors.
[RFC8448] provides test vectors for TLS 1.3 handshakes.
C.1. Random Number Generation and Seeding
TLS requires a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator
(CSPRNG). A performant and appropriately-secure CSPRNG is provided
by most operating systems or can be sourced from a cryptographic
library. It is RECOMMENDED to use an existing CSPRNG implementation
in preference to crafting a new one. Many adequate cryptographic
libraries are already available under favorable license terms.
Should those prove unsatisfactory, [RFC4086] provides guidance on the
generation of random values.
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TLS uses random values (1) in public protocol fields such as the
public Random values in the ClientHello and ServerHello and (2) to
generate keying material. With a properly functioning CSPRNG, this
does not present a security problem, as it is not feasible to
determine the CSPRNG state from its output. However, with a broken
CSPRNG, it may be possible for an attacker to use the public output
to determine the CSPRNG internal state and thereby predict the keying
material, as documented in [CHECKOWAY] and [DSA-1571-1].
Implementations can provide extra security against this form of
attack by using separate CSPRNGs to generate public and private
values.
[RFC8937] describes a way for security protocol implementations to
augment their (pseudo)random number generators using a long-term
private key and a deterministic signature function. This improves
randomness from broken or otherwise subverted random number
generators.
C.2. Certificates and Authentication
Implementations are responsible for verifying the integrity of
certificates and should generally support certificate revocation
messages. Absent a specific indication from an application profile,
certificates should always be verified to ensure proper signing by a
trusted certificate authority (CA). The selection and addition of
trust anchors should be done very carefully. Users should be able to
view information about the certificate and trust anchor.
Applications SHOULD also enforce minimum and maximum key sizes. For
example, certification paths containing keys or signatures weaker
than 2048-bit RSA or 224-bit ECDSA are not appropriate for secure
applications.
Note that it is common practice in some protocols to use the same
certificate in both client and server modes. This setting has not
been extensively analyzed and it is the responsibility of the higher
level protocol to ensure there is no ambiguity in this case about the
higher-level semantics.
C.3. Implementation Pitfalls
Implementation experience has shown that certain parts of earlier TLS
specifications are not easy to understand and have been a source of
interoperability and security problems. Many of these areas have
been clarified in this document but this appendix contains a short
list of the most important things that require special attention from
implementors.
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TLS protocol issues:
* Do you correctly handle handshake messages that are fragmented to
multiple TLS records (see Section 5.1)? Do you correctly handle
corner cases like a ClientHello that is split into several small
fragments? Do you fragment handshake messages that exceed the
maximum fragment size? In particular, the Certificate and
CertificateRequest handshake messages can be large enough to
require fragmentation. Certificate compression as defined in
[RFC8879] can be used to reduce the risk of fragmentation.
* Do you ignore the TLS record layer version number in all
unencrypted TLS records (see Appendix E)?
* Have you ensured that all support for SSL, RC4, EXPORT ciphers,
and MD5 (via the "signature_algorithms" extension) is completely
removed from all possible configurations that support TLS 1.3 or
later, and that attempts to use these obsolete capabilities fail
correctly? (see Appendix E)?
* Do you handle TLS extensions in ClientHellos correctly, including
unknown extensions?
* When the server has requested a client certificate but no suitable
certificate is available, do you correctly send an empty
Certificate message, instead of omitting the whole message (see
Section 4.4.2)?
* When processing the plaintext fragment produced by AEAD-Decrypt
and scanning from the end for the ContentType, do you avoid
scanning past the start of the cleartext in the event that the
peer has sent a malformed plaintext of all zeros?
* Do you properly ignore unrecognized cipher suites (Section 4.1.2),
hello extensions (Section 4.2), named groups (Section 4.2.7), key
shares (Section 4.2.8), supported versions (Section 4.2.1), and
signature algorithms (Section 4.2.3) in the ClientHello?
* As a server, do you send a HelloRetryRequest to clients which
support a compatible (EC)DHE group but do not predict it in the
"key_share" extension? As a client, do you correctly handle a
HelloRetryRequest from the server?
Cryptographic details:
* What countermeasures do you use to prevent timing attacks
[TIMING]?
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* When using Diffie-Hellman key exchange, do you correctly preserve
leading zero bytes in the negotiated key (see Section 7.4.1)?
* Does your TLS client check that the Diffie-Hellman parameters sent
by the server are acceptable (see Section 4.2.8.1)?
* Do you use a strong and, most importantly, properly seeded random
number generator (see Appendix C.1) when generating Diffie-Hellman
private values, the ECDSA "k" parameter, and other security-
critical values? It is RECOMMENDED that implementations implement
"deterministic ECDSA" as specified in [RFC6979]. Note that purely
deterministic ECC signatures such as deterministic ECDSA and EdDSA
may be vulnerable to certain side-channel and fault injection
attacks in easily accessible IoT devices.
* Do you zero-pad Diffie-Hellman public key values and shared
secrets to the group size (see Section 4.2.8.1 and Section 7.4.1)?
* Do you verify signatures after making them, to protect against
RSA-CRT key leaks [FW15]?
C.4. Client and Server Tracking Prevention
Clients SHOULD NOT reuse a ticket for multiple connections. Reuse of
a ticket allows passive observers to correlate different connections.
Servers that issue tickets SHOULD offer at least as many tickets as
the number of connections that a client might use; for example, a web
browser using HTTP/1.1 [RFC9112] might open six connections to a
server. Servers SHOULD issue new tickets with every connection.
This ensures that clients are always able to use a new ticket when
creating a new connection.
Offering a ticket to a server additionally allows the server to
correlate different connections. This is possible independent of
ticket reuse. Client applications SHOULD NOT offer tickets across
connections that are meant to be uncorrelated. For example, [FETCH]
defines network partition keys to separate cache lookups in web
browsers.
Clients and Servers SHOULD NOT reuse a key share for multiple
connections. Reuse of a key share allows passive observers to
correlate different connections. Reuse of a client key share to the
same server additionally allows the server to correlate different
connections.
It is RECOMMENDED that the labels for external identities be selected
so that they do not provide additional information about the identity
of the user. For instance, if the label includes an e-mail address,
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then this trivially identifies the user to a passive attacker, unlike
the client's Certificate, which is encrypted. There are a number of
potential ways to avoid this risk, including (1) using random
identity labels (2) pre-encrypting the identity under a key known to
the server or (3) using the Encrypted Client Hello
[I-D.ietf-tls-esni] extension.
If an external PSK identity is used for multiple connections, then it
will generally be possible for an external observer to track clients
and/or servers across connections. Use of the Encrypted Client Hello
[I-D.ietf-tls-esni] extension can mitigate this risk, as can
mechanisms external to TLS that rotate or encrypt the PSK identity.
C.5. Unauthenticated Operation
Previous versions of TLS offered explicitly unauthenticated cipher
suites based on anonymous Diffie-Hellman. These modes have been
deprecated in TLS 1.3. However, it is still possible to negotiate
parameters that do not provide verifiable server authentication by
several methods, including:
* Raw public keys [RFC7250].
* Using a public key contained in a certificate but without
validation of the certificate chain or any of its contents.
Either technique used alone is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle
attacks and therefore unsafe for general use. However, it is also
possible to bind such connections to an external authentication
mechanism via out-of-band validation of the server's public key,
trust on first use, or a mechanism such as channel bindings (though
the channel bindings described in [RFC5929] are not defined for TLS
1.3). If no such mechanism is used, then the connection has no
protection against active man-in-the-middle attack; applications MUST
NOT use TLS in such a way absent explicit configuration or a specific
application profile.
Appendix D. Updates to TLS 1.2
To align with the names used this document, the following terms from
[RFC5246] are renamed:
* The master secret, computed in Section 8.1 of [RFC5246], is
renamed to the main secret. It is referred to as main_secret in
formulas and structures, instead of master_secret. However, the
label parameter to the PRF function is left unchanged for
compatibility.
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* The premaster secret is renamed to the preliminary secret. It is
referred to as preliminary_secret in formulas and structures,
instead of pre_master_secret.
* The PreMasterSecret and EncryptedPreMasterSecret structures,
defined in Section 7.4.7.1 of [RFC5246], are renamed to
PreliminarySecret and EncryptedPreliminarySecret, respectively.
Correspondingly, the extension defined in [RFC7627] is renamed to the
"Extended Main Secret" extension. The extension code point is
renamed to "extended_main_secret". The label parameter to the PRF
function in Section 4 of [RFC7627] is left unchanged for
compatibility.
Appendix E. Backward Compatibility
The TLS protocol provides a built-in mechanism for version
negotiation between endpoints potentially supporting different
versions of TLS.
TLS 1.x and SSL 3.0 use compatible ClientHello messages. Servers can
also handle clients trying to use future versions of TLS as long as
the ClientHello format remains compatible and there is at least one
protocol version supported by both the client and the server.
Prior versions of TLS used the record layer version number
(TLSPlaintext.legacy_record_version and
TLSCiphertext.legacy_record_version) for various purposes. As of TLS
1.3, this field is deprecated. The value of
TLSPlaintext.legacy_record_version MUST be ignored by all
implementations. The value of TLSCiphertext.legacy_record_version is
included in the additional data for deprotection but MAY otherwise be
ignored or MAY be validated to match the fixed constant value.
Version negotiation is performed using only the handshake versions
(ClientHello.legacy_version and ServerHello.legacy_version, as well
as the ClientHello, HelloRetryRequest, and ServerHello
"supported_versions" extensions). In order to maximize
interoperability with older endpoints, implementations that negotiate
the use of TLS 1.0-1.2 SHOULD set the record layer version number to
the negotiated version for the ServerHello and all records
thereafter.
For maximum compatibility with previously non-standard behavior and
misconfigured deployments, all implementations SHOULD support
validation of certification paths based on the expectations in this
document, even when handling prior TLS versions' handshakes (see
Section 4.4.2.2).
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TLS 1.2 and prior supported an "Extended Main Secret" [RFC7627]
extension which digested large parts of the handshake transcript into
the secret and derived keys. Note this extension was renamed in
Appendix D. Because TLS 1.3 always hashes in the transcript up to
the server Finished, implementations which support both TLS 1.3 and
earlier versions SHOULD indicate the use of the Extended Main Secret
extension in their APIs whenever TLS 1.3 is used.
E.1. Negotiating with an Older Server
A TLS 1.3 client who wishes to negotiate with servers that do not
support TLS 1.3 will send a normal TLS 1.3 ClientHello containing
0x0303 (TLS 1.2) in ClientHello.legacy_version but with the correct
version(s) in the "supported_versions" extension. If the server does
not support TLS 1.3, it will respond with a ServerHello containing an
older version number. If the client agrees to use this version, the
negotiation will proceed as appropriate for the negotiated protocol.
A client using a ticket for resumption SHOULD initiate the connection
using the version that was previously negotiated.
Note that 0-RTT data is not compatible with older servers and SHOULD
NOT be sent absent knowledge that the server supports TLS 1.3. See
Appendix E.3.
If the version chosen by the server is not supported by the client
(or is not acceptable), the client MUST abort the handshake with a
"protocol_version" alert.
Some legacy server implementations are known to not implement the TLS
specification properly and might abort connections upon encountering
TLS extensions or versions which they are not aware of.
Interoperability with buggy servers is a complex topic beyond the
scope of this document. Multiple connection attempts may be required
in order to negotiate a backward-compatible connection; however, this
practice is vulnerable to downgrade attacks and is NOT RECOMMENDED.
E.2. Negotiating with an Older Client
A TLS server can also receive a ClientHello indicating a version
number smaller than its highest supported version. If the
"supported_versions" extension is present, the server MUST negotiate
using that extension as described in Section 4.2.1. If the
"supported_versions" extension is not present, the server MUST
negotiate the minimum of ClientHello.legacy_version and TLS 1.2. For
example, if the server supports TLS 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, and
legacy_version is TLS 1.0, the server will proceed with a TLS 1.0
ServerHello. If the "supported_versions" extension is absent and the
server only supports versions greater than
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ClientHello.legacy_version, the server MUST abort the handshake with
a "protocol_version" alert.
Note that earlier versions of TLS did not clearly specify the record
layer version number value in all cases
(TLSPlaintext.legacy_record_version). Servers will receive various
TLS 1.x versions in this field, but its value MUST always be ignored.
E.3. 0-RTT Backward Compatibility
0-RTT data is not compatible with older servers. An older server
will respond to the ClientHello with an older ServerHello, but it
will not correctly skip the 0-RTT data and will fail to complete the
handshake. This can cause issues when a client attempts to use
0-RTT, particularly against multi-server deployments. For example, a
deployment could deploy TLS 1.3 gradually with some servers
implementing TLS 1.3 and some implementing TLS 1.2, or a TLS 1.3
deployment could be downgraded to TLS 1.2.
A client that attempts to send 0-RTT data MUST fail a connection if
it receives a ServerHello with TLS 1.2 or older. It can then retry
the connection with 0-RTT disabled. To avoid a downgrade attack, the
client SHOULD NOT disable TLS 1.3, only 0-RTT.
To avoid this error condition, multi-server deployments SHOULD ensure
a uniform and stable deployment of TLS 1.3 without 0-RTT prior to
enabling 0-RTT.
E.4. Middlebox Compatibility Mode
Field measurements [Ben17a] [Ben17b] [Res17a] [Res17b] have found
that a significant number of middleboxes misbehave when a TLS client/
server pair negotiates TLS 1.3. Implementations can increase the
chance of making connections through those middleboxes by making the
TLS 1.3 handshake look more like a TLS 1.2 handshake:
* The client always provides a non-empty session ID in the
ClientHello, as described in the legacy_session_id section of
Section 4.1.2.
* If not offering early data, the client sends a dummy
change_cipher_spec record (see the third paragraph of Section 5)
immediately before its second flight. This may either be before
its second ClientHello or before its encrypted handshake flight.
If offering early data, the record is placed immediately after the
first ClientHello.
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* The server sends a dummy change_cipher_spec record immediately
after its first handshake message. This may either be after a
ServerHello or a HelloRetryRequest.
When put together, these changes make the TLS 1.3 handshake resemble
TLS 1.2 session resumption, which improves the chance of successfully
connecting through middleboxes. This "compatibility mode" is
partially negotiated: the client can opt to provide a session ID or
not, and the server has to echo it. Either side can send
change_cipher_spec at any time during the handshake, as they must be
ignored by the peer, but if the client sends a non-empty session ID,
the server MUST send the change_cipher_spec as described in this
appendix.
E.5. Security Restrictions Related to Backward Compatibility
Implementations negotiating the use of older versions of TLS SHOULD
prefer forward secret and AEAD cipher suites, when available.
The security of RC4 cipher suites is considered insufficient for the
reasons cited in [RFC7465]. Implementations MUST NOT offer or
negotiate RC4 cipher suites for any version of TLS for any reason.
Old versions of TLS permitted the use of very low strength ciphers.
Ciphers with a strength less than 112 bits MUST NOT be offered or
negotiated for any version of TLS for any reason.
The security of SSL 2.0 [SSL2], SSL 3.0 [RFC6101], TLS 1.0 [RFC2246],
and TLS 1.1 [RFC4346] are considered insufficient for the reasons
enumerated in [RFC6176], [RFC7568], and [RFC8996] and they MUST NOT
be negotiated for any reason.
Implementations MUST NOT send an SSL version 2.0 compatible CLIENT-
HELLO. Implementations MUST NOT negotiate TLS 1.3 or later using an
SSL version 2.0 compatible CLIENT-HELLO. Implementations are NOT
RECOMMENDED to accept an SSL version 2.0 compatible CLIENT-HELLO in
order to negotiate older versions of TLS.
Implementations MUST NOT send a ClientHello.legacy_version or
ServerHello.legacy_version set to 0x0300 or less. Any endpoint
receiving a Hello message with ClientHello.legacy_version or
ServerHello.legacy_version set to 0x0300 MUST abort the handshake
with a "protocol_version" alert.
Implementations MUST NOT send any records with a version less than
0x0300. Implementations SHOULD NOT accept any records with a version
less than 0x0300 (but may inadvertently do so if the record version
number is ignored completely).
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Implementations MUST NOT use the Truncated HMAC extension, defined in
Section 7 of [RFC6066], as it is not applicable to AEAD algorithms
and has been shown to be insecure in some scenarios.
Appendix F. Overview of Security Properties
A complete security analysis of TLS is outside the scope of this
document. In this appendix, we provide an informal description of
the desired properties as well as references to more detailed work in
the research literature which provides more formal definitions.
We cover properties of the handshake separately from those of the
record layer.
F.1. Handshake
The TLS handshake is an Authenticated Key Exchange (AKE) protocol
which is intended to provide both one-way authenticated (server-only)
and mutually authenticated (client and server) functionality. At the
completion of the handshake, each side outputs its view of the
following values:
* A set of "session keys" (the various secrets derived from the main
secret) from which can be derived a set of working keys.
* A set of cryptographic parameters (algorithms, etc.).
* The identities of the communicating parties.
We assume the attacker to be an active network attacker, which means
it has complete control over the network used to communicate between
the parties [RFC3552]. Even under these conditions, the handshake
should provide the properties listed below. Note that these
properties are not necessarily independent, but reflect the protocol
consumers' needs.
Establishing the same session keys: The handshake needs to output
the same set of session keys on both sides of the handshake,
provided that it completes successfully on each endpoint (see
[CK01], Definition 1, part 1).
Secrecy of the session keys: The shared session keys should be known
only to the communicating parties and not to the attacker (see
[CK01]; Definition 1, part 2). Note that in a unilaterally
authenticated connection, the attacker can establish its own
session keys with the server, but those session keys are distinct
from those established by the client.
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Peer Authentication: The client's view of the peer identity should
reflect the server's identity. If the client is authenticated,
the server's view of the peer identity should match the client's
identity.
Uniqueness of the session keys: Any two distinct handshakes should
produce distinct, unrelated session keys. Individual session keys
produced by a handshake should also be distinct and independent.
Downgrade Protection: The cryptographic parameters should be the
same on both sides and should be the same as if the peers had been
communicating in the absence of an attack (see [BBFGKZ16];
Definitions 8 and 9).
Forward secret with respect to long-term keys: If the long-term
keying material (in this case the signature keys in certificate-
based authentication modes or the external/resumption PSK in PSK
with (EC)DHE modes) is compromised after the handshake is
complete, this does not compromise the security of the session key
(see [DOW92]), as long as the session key itself (and all material
that could be used to recreate the session key) has been erased.
In particular, private keys corresponding to key shares, shared
secrets, and keys derived in the TLS Key Schedule other than
binder_key, resumption_secret, and PSKs derived from the
resumption_secret also need to be erased. The forward secrecy
property is not satisfied when PSK is used in the "psk_ke"
PskKeyExchangeMode. Failing to erase keys or secrets intended to
be ephemeral or connection-specific in effect creates additional
long-term keys that must be protected. Compromise of those long-
term keys (even after the handshake is complete) can result in
loss of protection for the connection's traffic.
Key Compromise Impersonation (KCI) resistance: In a mutually
authenticated connection with certificates, compromising the long-
term secret of one actor should not break that actor’s
authentication of their peer in the given connection (see
[HGFS15]). For example, if a client's signature key is
compromised, it should not be possible to impersonate arbitrary
servers to that client in subsequent handshakes.
Protection of endpoint identities: The server's identity
(certificate) should be protected against passive attackers. The
client's identity (certificate) should be protected against both
passive and active attackers. This property does not hold for
cipher suites without confidentiality; while this specification
does not define any such cipher suites, other documents may do so.
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Informally, the signature-based modes of TLS 1.3 provide for the
establishment of a unique, secret, shared key established by an
(EC)DHE key exchange and authenticated by the server's signature over
the handshake transcript, as well as tied to the server's identity by
a MAC. If the client is authenticated by a certificate, it also
signs over the handshake transcript and provides a MAC tied to both
identities. [SIGMA] describes the design and analysis of this type
of key exchange protocol. If fresh (EC)DHE keys are used for each
connection, then the output keys are forward secret.
The external PSK and resumption PSK bootstrap from a long-term shared
secret into a unique per-connection set of short-term session keys.
This secret may have been established in a previous handshake. If
PSK with (EC)DHE key establishment is used, these session keys will
also be forward secret. The resumption PSK has been designed so that
the resumption secret computed by connection N and needed to form
connection N+1 is separate from the traffic keys used by connection
N, thus providing forward secrecy between the connections. In
addition, if multiple tickets are established on the same connection,
they are associated with different keys, so compromise of the PSK
associated with one ticket does not lead to the compromise of
connections established with PSKs associated with other tickets.
This property is most interesting if tickets are stored in a database
(and so can be deleted) rather than if they are self-encrypted.
Forward secrecy limits the effect of key leakage in one direction
(compromise of a key at time T2 does not compromise some key at time
T1 where T1 < T2). Protection in the other direction (compromise at
time T1 does not compromise keys at time T2) can be achieved by
rerunning (EC)DHE. If a long-term authentication key has been
compromised, a full handshake with (EC)DHE gives protection against
passive attackers. If the resumption_secret has been compromised, a
resumption handshake with (EC)DHE gives protection against passive
attackers and a full handshake with (EC)DHE gives protection against
active attackers. If a traffic secret has been compromised, any
handshake with (EC)DHE gives protection against active attackers.
Using the terms in [RFC7624], forward secrecy without rerunning
(EC)DHE does not stop an attacker from doing static key exfiltration.
After key exfiltration of application_traffic_secret_N, an attacker
can e.g., passively eavesdrop on all future data sent on the
connection including data encrypted with
application_traffic_secret_N+1, application_traffic_secret_N+2, etc.
Frequently rerunning (EC)DHE forces an attacker to do dynamic key
exfiltration (or content exfiltration).
The PSK binder value forms a binding between a PSK and the current
handshake, as well as between the session where the PSK was
established and the current session. This binding transitively
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includes the original handshake transcript, because that transcript
is digested into the values which produce the resumption secret.
This requires that both the KDF used to produce the resumption secret
and the MAC used to compute the binder be collision resistant. See
Appendix F.1.1 for more on this. Note: The binder does not cover the
binder values from other PSKs, though they are included in the
Finished MAC.
Note: This specification does not currently permit the server to send
a certificate_request message in non-certificate-based handshakes
(e.g., PSK). If this restriction were to be relaxed in future, the
client's signature would not cover the server's certificate directly.
However, if the PSK was established through a NewSessionTicket, the
client's signature would transitively cover the server's certificate
through the PSK binder. [PSK-FINISHED] describes a concrete attack
on constructions that do not bind to the server's certificate (see
also [Kraw16]). It is unsafe to use certificate-based client
authentication when the client might potentially share the same PSK/
key-id pair with two different endpoints. In the absence of some
other specification to the contrary, implementations MUST NOT combine
external PSKs with certificate-based authentication of either the
client or server. [RFC8773] provides an extension to permit this,
but has not received the level of analysis as this specification.
If an exporter is used, then it produces values which are unique and
secret (because they are generated from a unique session key).
Exporters computed with different labels and contexts are
computationally independent, so it is not feasible to compute one
from another or the session secret from the exported value. Note:
Exporters can produce arbitrary-length values; if exporters are to be
used as channel bindings, the exported value MUST be large enough to
provide collision resistance. The exporters provided in TLS 1.3 are
derived from the same Handshake Contexts as the early traffic keys
and the application traffic keys, respectively, and thus have similar
security properties. Note that they do not include the client's
certificate; future applications which wish to bind to the client's
certificate may need to define a new exporter that includes the full
handshake transcript.
For all handshake modes, the Finished MAC (and, where present, the
signature) prevents downgrade attacks. In addition, the use of
certain bytes in the random nonces as described in Section 4.1.3
allows the detection of downgrade to previous TLS versions. See
[BBFGKZ16] for more details on TLS 1.3 and downgrade.
As soon as the client and the server have exchanged enough
information to establish shared keys, the remainder of the handshake
is encrypted, thus providing protection against passive attackers,
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even if the computed shared key is not authenticated. Because the
server authenticates before the client, the client can ensure that if
it authenticates to the server, it only reveals its identity to an
authenticated server. Note that implementations must use the
provided record-padding mechanism during the handshake to avoid
leaking information about the identities due to length. The client's
proposed PSK identities are not encrypted, nor is the one that the
server selects.
F.1.1. Key Derivation and HKDF
Key derivation in TLS 1.3 uses HKDF as defined in [RFC5869] and its
two components, HKDF-Extract and HKDF-Expand. The full rationale for
the HKDF construction can be found in [Kraw10] and the rationale for
the way it is used in TLS 1.3 in [KW16]. Throughout this document,
each application of HKDF-Extract is followed by one or more
invocations of HKDF-Expand. This ordering should always be followed
(including in future revisions of this document); in particular, one
SHOULD NOT use an output of HKDF-Extract as an input to another
application of HKDF-Extract without an HKDF-Expand in between.
Multiple applications of HKDF-Expand to some of the same inputs are
allowed as long as these are differentiated via the key and/or the
labels.
Note that HKDF-Expand implements a pseudorandom function (PRF) with
both inputs and outputs of variable length. In some of the uses of
HKDF in this document (e.g., for generating exporters and the
resumption_secret), it is necessary that the application of HKDF-
Expand be collision resistant; namely, it should be infeasible to
find two different inputs to HKDF-Expand that output the same value.
This requires the underlying hash function to be collision resistant
and the output length from HKDF-Expand to be of size at least 256
bits (or as much as needed for the hash function to prevent finding
collisions).
F.1.2. Certificate-Based Client Authentication
A client that has sent certificate-based authentication data to a
server, either during the handshake or in post-handshake
authentication, cannot be sure whether the server afterwards
considers the client to be authenticated or not. If the client needs
to determine if the server considers the connection to be
unilaterally or mutually authenticated, this has to be provisioned by
the application layer. See [CHHSV17] for details. In addition, the
analysis of post-handshake authentication from [Kraw16] shows that
the client identified by the certificate sent in the post-handshake
phase possesses the traffic key. This party is therefore the client
that participated in the original handshake or one to whom the
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original client delegated the traffic key (assuming that the traffic
key has not been compromised).
F.1.3. 0-RTT
The 0-RTT mode of operation generally provides security properties
similar to those of 1-RTT data, with the two exceptions that the
0-RTT encryption keys do not provide full forward secrecy and that
the server is not able to guarantee uniqueness of the handshake (non-
replayability) without keeping potentially undue amounts of state.
See Section 8 for mechanisms to limit the exposure to replay.
F.1.4. Exporter Independence
The exporter_secret and early_exporter_secret are derived to be
independent of the traffic keys and therefore do not represent a
threat to the security of traffic encrypted with those keys.
However, because these secrets can be used to compute any exporter
value, they SHOULD be erased as soon as possible. If the total set
of exporter labels is known, then implementations SHOULD pre-compute
the inner Derive-Secret stage of the exporter computation for all
those labels, then erase the [early_]exporter_secret, followed by
each inner values as soon as it is known that it will not be needed
again.
F.1.5. Post-Compromise Security
TLS does not provide security for handshakes which take place after
the peer's long-term secret (signature key or external PSK) is
compromised. It therefore does not provide post-compromise security
[CCG16], sometimes also referred to as backwards or future secrecy.
This is in contrast to KCI resistance, which describes the security
guarantees that a party has after its own long-term secret has been
compromised.
F.1.6. External References
The reader should refer to the following references for analysis of
the TLS handshake: [DFGS15], [CHSV16], [DFGS16], [KW16], [Kraw16],
[FGSW16], [LXZFH16], [FG17], and [BBK17].
F.2. Record Layer
The record layer depends on the handshake producing strong traffic
secrets which can be used to derive bidirectional encryption keys and
nonces. Assuming that is true, and the keys are used for no more
data than indicated in Section 5.5, then the record layer should
provide the following guarantees:
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Confidentiality: An attacker should not be able to determine the
plaintext contents of a given record.
Integrity: An attacker should not be able to craft a new record
which is different from an existing record which will be accepted
by the receiver.
Order protection/non-replayability: An attacker should not be able
to cause the receiver to accept a record which it has already
accepted or cause the receiver to accept record N+1 without having
first processed record N.
Length concealment: Given a record with a given external length, the
attacker should not be able to determine the amount of the record
that is content versus padding.
Forward secrecy after key change: If the traffic key update
mechanism described in Section 4.6.3 has been used and the
previous generation key is deleted, an attacker who compromises
the endpoint should not be able to decrypt traffic encrypted with
the old key.
Informally, TLS 1.3 provides these properties by AEAD-protecting the
plaintext with a strong key. AEAD encryption [RFC5116] provides
confidentiality and integrity for the data. Non-replayability is
provided by using a separate nonce for each record, with the nonce
being derived from the record sequence number (Section 5.3), with the
sequence number being maintained independently at both sides; thus
records which are delivered out of order result in AEAD deprotection
failures. In order to prevent mass cryptanalysis when the same
plaintext is repeatedly encrypted by different users under the same
key (as is commonly the case for HTTP), the nonce is formed by mixing
the sequence number with a secret per-connection initialization
vector derived along with the traffic keys. See [BT16] for analysis
of this construction.
The rekeying technique in TLS 1.3 (see Section 7.2) follows the
construction of the serial generator as discussed in [REKEY], which
shows that rekeying can allow keys to be used for a larger number of
encryptions than without rekeying. This relies on the security of
the HKDF-Expand-Label function as a pseudorandom function (PRF). In
addition, as long as this function is truly one way, it is not
possible to compute traffic keys from prior to a key change (forward
secrecy).
TLS does not provide security for data which is communicated on a
connection after a traffic secret of that connection is compromised.
That is, TLS does not provide post-compromise security/future
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secrecy/backward secrecy with respect to the traffic secret. Indeed,
an attacker who learns a traffic secret can compute all future
traffic secrets on that connection. Systems which want such
guarantees need to do a fresh handshake and establish a new
connection with an (EC)DHE exchange.
F.2.1. External References
The reader should refer to the following references for analysis of
the TLS record layer: [BMMRT15], [BT16], [BDFKPPRSZZ16], [BBK17], and
[PS18].
F.3. Traffic Analysis
TLS is susceptible to a variety of traffic analysis attacks based on
observing the length and timing of encrypted packets [CLINIC]
[HCJC16]. This is particularly easy when there is a small set of
possible messages to be distinguished, such as for a video server
hosting a fixed corpus of content, but still provides usable
information even in more complicated scenarios.
TLS does not provide any specific defenses against this form of
attack but does include a padding mechanism for use by applications:
The plaintext protected by the AEAD function consists of content plus
variable-length padding, which allows the application to produce
arbitrary-length encrypted records as well as padding-only cover
traffic to conceal the difference between periods of transmission and
periods of silence. Because the padding is encrypted alongside the
actual content, an attacker cannot directly determine the length of
the padding, but may be able to measure it indirectly by the use of
timing channels exposed during record processing (i.e., seeing how
long it takes to process a record or trickling in records to see
which ones elicit a response from the server). In general, it is not
known how to remove all of these channels because even a constant-
time padding removal function will likely feed the content into data-
dependent functions. At minimum, a fully constant-time server or
client would require close cooperation with the application-layer
protocol implementation, including making that higher-level protocol
constant time.
Note: Robust traffic analysis defenses will likely lead to inferior
performance due to delays in transmitting packets and increased
traffic volume.
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F.4. Side Channel Attacks
In general, TLS does not have specific defenses against side-channel
attacks (i.e., those which attack the communications via secondary
channels such as timing), leaving those to the implementation of the
relevant cryptographic primitives. However, certain features of TLS
are designed to make it easier to write side-channel resistant code:
* Unlike previous versions of TLS which used a composite MAC-then-
encrypt structure, TLS 1.3 only uses AEAD algorithms, allowing
implementations to use self-contained constant-time
implementations of those primitives.
* TLS uses a uniform "bad_record_mac" alert for all decryption
errors, which is intended to prevent an attacker from gaining
piecewise insight into portions of the message. Additional
resistance is provided by terminating the connection on such
errors; a new connection will have different cryptographic
material, preventing attacks against the cryptographic primitives
that require multiple trials.
Information leakage through side channels can occur at layers above
TLS, in application protocols and the applications that use them.
Resistance to side-channel attacks depends on applications and
application protocols separately ensuring that confidential
information is not inadvertently leaked.
F.5. Replay Attacks on 0-RTT
Replayable 0-RTT data presents a number of security threats to TLS-
using applications, unless those applications are specifically
engineered to be safe under replay (minimally, this means idempotent,
but in many cases may also require other stronger conditions, such as
constant-time response). Potential attacks include:
* Duplication of actions which cause side effects (e.g., purchasing
an item or transferring money) to be duplicated, thus harming the
site or the user.
* Attackers can store and replay 0-RTT messages in order to reorder
them with respect to other messages (e.g., moving a delete to
after a create).
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* Amplifying existing information leaks caused by side effects like
caching. An attacker could learn information about the content of
a 0-RTT message by replaying it to some cache node that has not
cached some resource of interest, and then using a separate
connection to check whether that resource has been added to the
cache. This could be repeated with different cache nodes as often
as the 0-RTT message is replayable.
If data can be replayed a large number of times, additional attacks
become possible, such as making repeated measurements of the speed of
cryptographic operations. In addition, they may be able to overload
rate-limiting systems. For a further description of these attacks,
see [Mac17].
Ultimately, servers have the responsibility to protect themselves
against attacks employing 0-RTT data replication. The mechanisms
described in Section 8 are intended to prevent replay at the TLS
layer but do not provide complete protection against receiving
multiple copies of client data. TLS 1.3 falls back to the 1-RTT
handshake when the server does not have any information about the
client, e.g., because it is in a different cluster which does not
share state or because the ticket has been deleted as described in
Section 8.1. If the application-layer protocol retransmits data in
this setting, then it is possible for an attacker to induce message
duplication by sending the ClientHello to both the original cluster
(which processes the data immediately) and another cluster which will
fall back to 1-RTT and process the data upon application-layer
replay. The scale of this attack is limited by the client's
willingness to retry transactions and therefore only allows a limited
amount of duplication, with each copy appearing as a new connection
at the server.
If implemented correctly, the mechanisms described in Section 8.1 and
Section 8.2 prevent a replayed ClientHello and its associated 0-RTT
data from being accepted multiple times by any cluster with
consistent state; for servers which limit the use of 0-RTT to one
cluster for a single ticket, then a given ClientHello and its
associated 0-RTT data will only be accepted once. However, if state
is not completely consistent, then an attacker might be able to have
multiple copies of the data be accepted during the replication
window. Because clients do not know the exact details of server
behavior, they MUST NOT send messages in early data which are not
safe to have replayed and which they would not be willing to retry
across multiple 1-RTT connections.
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Application protocols MUST NOT use 0-RTT data without a profile that
defines its use. That profile needs to identify which messages or
interactions are safe to use with 0-RTT and how to handle the
situation when the server rejects 0-RTT and falls back to 1-RTT.
In addition, to avoid accidental misuse, TLS implementations MUST NOT
enable 0-RTT (either sending or accepting) unless specifically
requested by the application and MUST NOT automatically resend 0-RTT
data if it is rejected by the server unless instructed by the
application. Server-side applications may wish to implement special
processing for 0-RTT data for some kinds of application traffic
(e.g., abort the connection, request that data be resent at the
application layer, or delay processing until the handshake
completes). In order to allow applications to implement this kind of
processing, TLS implementations MUST provide a way for the
application to determine if the handshake has completed.
F.5.1. Replay and Exporters
Replays of the ClientHello produce the same early exporter, thus
requiring additional care by applications which use these exporters.
In particular, if these exporters are used as an authentication
channel binding (e.g., by signing the output of the exporter) an
attacker who compromises the PSK can transplant authenticators
between connections without compromising the authentication key.
In addition, the early exporter SHOULD NOT be used to generate
server-to-client encryption keys because that would entail the reuse
of those keys. This parallels the use of the early application
traffic keys only in the client-to-server direction.
F.6. PSK Identity Exposure
Because implementations respond to an invalid PSK binder by aborting
the handshake, it may be possible for an attacker to verify whether a
given PSK identity is valid. Specifically, if a server accepts both
external-PSK and certificate-based handshakes, a valid PSK identity
will result in a failed handshake, whereas an invalid identity will
just be skipped and result in a successful certificate handshake.
Servers which solely support PSK handshakes may be able to resist
this form of attack by treating the cases where there is no valid PSK
identity and where there is an identity but it has an invalid binder
identically.
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F.7. Sharing PSKs
TLS 1.3 takes a conservative approach to PSKs by binding them to a
specific KDF. By contrast, TLS 1.2 allows PSKs to be used with any
hash function and the TLS 1.2 PRF. Thus, any PSK which is used with
both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 must be used with only one hash in TLS 1.3,
which is less than optimal if users want to provision a single PSK.
The constructions in TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 are different, although they
are both based on HMAC. While there is no known way in which the
same PSK might produce related output in both versions, only limited
analysis has been done. Implementations can ensure safety from
cross-protocol related output by not reusing PSKs between TLS 1.3 and
TLS 1.2.
F.8. Misbinding when using Self-Signed Certificates or Raw Public Keys
When TLS 1.3 is used with self-signed certificates without useful
identities (as in DTLS-SRTP [RFC5763]) or raw public keys [RFC7250]
or for peer authentication, it may be vulnerable to misbinding
attacks [MM24]. This risk can be mitigated by using the
"external_id_hash" extension [RFC8444] or, if only the server is
being authenticated, by the server verifying that the "server_name"
extension matches its expected identity.
F.9. Attacks on Static RSA
Although TLS 1.3 does not use RSA key transport and so is not
directly susceptible to Bleichenbacher-type attacks [Blei98] if TLS
1.3 servers also support static RSA in the context of previous
versions of TLS, then it may be possible to impersonate the server
for TLS 1.3 connections [JSS15]. TLS 1.3 implementations can prevent
this attack by disabling support for static RSA across all versions
of TLS. In principle, implementations might also be able to separate
certificates with different keyUsage bits for static RSA decryption
and RSA signature, but this technique relies on clients refusing to
accept signatures using keys in certificates that do not have the
digitalSignature bit set, and many clients do not enforce this
restriction.
Appendix G. Change Log
[[RFC EDITOR: Please remove in final RFC.]] Since -06 - Updated text
about differences from RFC 8446. - Clarify which parts of IANA
considerations are new to this document. - Upgrade the requirement to
initiate key update before exceeding key usage limits to MUST. - Add
some text around use of the same cert for client and server.
Since -05
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* Port in text on key update limits from RFC 9147 (Issue 1257)
* Clarify that you need to ignore NST if you don't do resumption
(Issue 1280)
* Discuss the privacy implications of external key reuse (Issue
1287)
* Advice on key deletion (PR 1282)
* Clarify what unsolicited extensions means (PR 1275)
* close_notify should be warning (PR 1290)
* Reference RFC 8773 (PR 1296)
* Add some more information about application bindings and cite RFC
9525 (PR 1297)
Since -04
* Update the extension table (Issue 1241)
* Clarify user_canceled (Issue 1208)
* Clarify 0-RTT cache side channels (Issue 1225)
* Require that message reinjection be done with the current hash.
Potentially a clarification and potentially a wire format change
depending on previous interpretation (Issue 1227)
Changelog not updated between -00 and -03
Since -00
* Update TLS 1.2 terminology
* Specify "certificate-based" client authentication
* Clarify that privacy guarantees don't apply when you have null
encryption
* Shorten some names
* Address tracking implications of resumption
Contributors
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Martin Abadi
University of California, Santa Cruz
abadi@cs.ucsc.edu
Christopher Allen
(co-editor of TLS 1.0)
Alacrity Ventures
ChristopherA@AlacrityManagement.com
Nimrod Aviram
Tel Aviv University
nimrod.aviram@gmail.com
Richard Barnes
Cisco
rlb@ipv.sx
Steven M. Bellovin
Columbia University
smb@cs.columbia.edu
David Benjamin
Google
davidben@google.com
Benjamin Beurdouche
INRIA & Microsoft Research
benjamin.beurdouche@ens.fr
Karthikeyan Bhargavan
(editor of [RFC7627])
INRIA
karthikeyan.bhargavan@inria.fr
Simon Blake-Wilson
(co-author of [RFC4492])
BCI
sblakewilson@bcisse.com
Nelson Bolyard
(co-author of [RFC4492])
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
nelson@bolyard.com
Ran Canetti
IBM
canetti@watson.ibm.com
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Matt Caswell
OpenSSL
matt@openssl.org
Stephen Checkoway
University of Illinois at Chicago
sfc@uic.edu
Pete Chown
Skygate Technology Ltd
pc@skygate.co.uk
Katriel Cohn-Gordon
University of Oxford
me@katriel.co.uk
Cas Cremers
University of Oxford
cas.cremers@cs.ox.ac.uk
Antoine Delignat-Lavaud
(co-author of [RFC7627])
INRIA
antdl@microsoft.com
Tim Dierks
(co-author of TLS 1.0, co-editor of TLS 1.1 and 1.2)
Independent
tim@dierks.org
Roelof DuToit
Symantec Corporation
roelof_dutoit@symantec.com
Taher Elgamal
Securify
taher@securify.com
Pasi Eronen
Nokia
pasi.eronen@nokia.com
Cedric Fournet
Microsoft
fournet@microsoft.com
Anil Gangolli
anil@busybuddha.org
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David M. Garrett
dave@nulldereference.com
Illya Gerasymchuk
Independent
illya@iluxonchik.me
Alessandro Ghedini
Cloudflare Inc.
alessandro@cloudflare.com
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
ACLU
dkg@fifthhorseman.net
Matthew Green
Johns Hopkins University
mgreen@cs.jhu.edu
Jens Guballa
ETAS
jens.guballa@etas.com
Felix Guenther
TU Darmstadt
mail@felixguenther.info
Vipul Gupta
(co-author of [RFC4492])
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
vipul.gupta@sun.com
Chris Hawk
(co-author of [RFC4492])
Corriente Networks LLC
chris@corriente.net
Kipp Hickman
Alfred Hoenes
David Hopwood
Independent Consultant
david.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk
Marko Horvat
MPI-SWS
mhorvat@mpi-sws.org
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Jonathan Hoyland
Royal Holloway, University of London
jonathan.hoyland@gmail.com
Subodh Iyengar
Facebook
subodh@fb.com
Benjamin Kaduk
Akamai Technologies
kaduk@mit.edu
Hubert Kario
Red Hat Inc.
hkario@redhat.com
Phil Karlton
(co-author of SSL 3.0)
Leon Klingele
Independent
mail@leonklingele.de
Paul Kocher
(co-author of SSL 3.0)
Cryptography Research
paul@cryptography.com
Hugo Krawczyk
IBM
hugokraw@us.ibm.com
Adam Langley
(co-author of [RFC7627])
Google
agl@google.com
Olivier Levillain
ANSSI
olivier.levillain@ssi.gouv.fr
Xiaoyin Liu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
xiaoyin.l@outlook.com
Ilari Liusvaara
Independent
ilariliusvaara@welho.com
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Atul Luykx
K.U. Leuven
atul.luykx@kuleuven.be
Colm MacCarthaigh
Amazon Web Services
colm@allcosts.net
Carl Mehner
USAA
carl.mehner@usaa.com
Jan Mikkelsen
Transactionware
janm@transactionware.com
Bodo Moeller
(co-author of [RFC4492])
Google
bodo@acm.org
Kyle Nekritz
Facebook
knekritz@fb.com
Erik Nygren
Akamai Technologies
erik+ietf@nygren.org
Magnus Nystrom
Microsoft
mnystrom@microsoft.com
Kazuho Oku
DeNA Co., Ltd.
kazuhooku@gmail.com
Kenny Paterson
Royal Holloway, University of London
kenny.paterson@rhul.ac.uk
Christopher Patton
University of Florida
cjpatton@ufl.edu
Alfredo Pironti
(co-author of [RFC7627])
INRIA
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alfredo.pironti@inria.fr
Andrei Popov
Microsoft
andrei.popov@microsoft.com
John {{{Preuß Mattsson}}}
Ericsson
john.mattsson@ericsson.com
Marsh Ray
(co-author of [RFC7627])
Microsoft
maray@microsoft.com
Robert Relyea
Netscape Communications
relyea@netscape.com
Kyle Rose
Akamai Technologies
krose@krose.org
Jim Roskind
Amazon
jroskind@amazon.com
Michael Sabin
Joe Salowey
Tableau Software
joe@salowey.net
Rich Salz
Akamai
rsalz@akamai.com
David Schinazi
Apple Inc.
dschinazi@apple.com
Sam Scott
Royal Holloway, University of London
me@samjs.co.uk
Thomas Shrimpton
University of Florida
teshrim@ufl.edu
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Dan Simon
Microsoft, Inc.
dansimon@microsoft.com
Brian Smith
Independent
brian@briansmith.org
Ben Smyth
Ampersand
www.bensmyth.com
Brian Sniffen
Akamai Technologies
ietf@bts.evenmere.org
Nick Sullivan
Cloudflare Inc.
nick@cloudflare.com
Bjoern Tackmann
University of California, San Diego
btackmann@eng.ucsd.edu
Tim Taubert
Mozilla
ttaubert@mozilla.com
Martin Thomson
Mozilla
mt@mozilla.com
Hannes Tschofenig
Arm Limited
Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com
Sean Turner
sn3rd
sean@sn3rd.com
Steven Valdez
Google
svaldez@google.com
Filippo Valsorda
Cloudflare Inc.
filippo@cloudflare.com
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Thyla van der Merwe
Royal Holloway, University of London
tjvdmerwe@gmail.com
Victor Vasiliev
Google
vasilvv@google.com
Loganaden Velvindron
cyberstorm.mu
logan@cyberstorm.mu
Hoeteck Wee
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
hoeteck@alum.mit.edu
Tom Weinstein
David Wong
NCC Group
david.wong@nccgroup.trust
Christopher A. Wood
Apple Inc.
cawood@apple.com
Tim Wright
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