Message Encryption for Web Push
draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-03
Network Working Group M. Thomson
Internet-Draft Mozilla
Intended status: Standards Track June 29, 2016
Expires: December 31, 2016
Message Encryption for Web Push
draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-03
Abstract
A message encryption scheme is described for the Web Push protocol.
This scheme provides confidentiality and integrity for messages sent
from an Application Server to a User Agent.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Key Generation and Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Diffie-Hellman Group Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Key Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.3. Push Message Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Message Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Key Derivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Push Message Content Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Message Decryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Mandatory Group and Public Key Format . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1. Introduction
The Web Push protocol [I-D.ietf-webpush-protocol] is an intermediated
protocol by necessity. Messages from an Application Server are
delivered to a User Agent via a Push Service.
+-------+ +--------------+ +-------------+
| UA | | Push Service | | Application |
+-------+ +--------------+ +-------------+
| | |
| Setup | |
|<====================>| |
| Provide Subscription |
|-------------------------------------------->|
| | |
: : :
| | Push Message |
| Push Message |<---------------------|
|<---------------------| |
| | |
This document describes how messages sent using this protocol can be
secured against inspection, modification and falsification by a Push
Service.
Web Push messages are the payload of an HTTP message [RFC7230].
These messages are encrypted using an encrypted content encoding
[I-D.ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding]. This document describes how
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this content encoding is applied and describes a recommended key
management scheme.
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