Token Binding for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1.3 Connections
draft-ietf-tokbind-tls13-02

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Network Working Group                                          N. Harper
Internet-Draft                                               Google Inc.
Updates: RFC8472 (if approved)                          October 22, 2018
Intended status: Standards Track
Expires: April 25, 2019

Token Binding for Transport Layer Security (TLS) Version 1.3 Connections
                      draft-ietf-tokbind-tls13-02

Abstract

   Negotiation of the Token Binding protocol is only defined for
   Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.2 and earlier.  Token
   Binding users may wish to use it with TLS 1.3; this document defines
   a backwards compatible way to negotiate Token Binding on TLS 1.3
   connections.

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1.  Introduction

   Negotiating Token Binding using a TLS [RFC8446] extension as
   described in [RFC8472] is fairly straightforward, but is restricted
   to TLS 1.2 and earlier.  Only one minor change is needed to use this
   extension to negotiate Token Binding on connections using TLS 1.3 and
   later.  Instead of the server putting the "token_binding" extension
   in the ServerHello like in TLS 1.2, in TLS 1.3 the server puts it in
   EncryptedExtensions instead.

   This document also non-normatively provides a clarification for the
   definition of the TokenBinding.signature field from [RFC8471], since
   TLS 1.3 defines an alternate (but API-compatible) exporter mechanism
   to the one in [RFC5705] used in [RFC8471].

1.1.  Requirements Language

   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.

2.  Token Binding TLS Extension

   In TLS 1.3, the "token_binding" TLS extension may be present only in
   ClientHello and EncryptedExtensions handshake messages.  The format
   of the "token_binding" TLS extension remains the same as defined in
   [RFC8472].

   A client puts the "token_binding" TLS extension in its ClientHello to
   indicate its support for the Token Binding protocol.  The client
   should follow the same rules for when to send this extension and the
   contents of its data as in section 2 of [RFC8472].  Since the
   "token_binding" extension remains unchanged from TLS 1.2 to TLS 1.3
   in the ClientHello, a client sending the "token_binding" extension in
   a TLS 1.3 ClientHello is backwards compatible with a server that only
   supports TLS 1.2.

   A server puts the "token_binding" TLS extension in the
   EncryptedExtensions message following its ServerHello to indicate
   support for the Token Binding protocol and to select protocol version
   and key parameters.  The server includes the extension following the
   same rules as section 3 of [RFC8472], with the following changes:

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   o  The "token_binding" TLS extension is in EncryptedExtensions
      instead of ServerHello.

   o  The server MUST NOT include both the "token_binding" extension and
      the "early_data" extension on the same connection.

3.  Interaction with 0-RTT Data

   [RFC8446] requires that extensions define their interaction with
   0-RTT.  The "token_binding" extension MUST NOT be used with 0-RTT