NULL Encryption and Key Exchange Without Forward Secrecy are Discouraged
draft-mattsson-tls-psk-ke-dont-dont-dont-05
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Author | John Preuß Mattsson | ||
Last updated | 2023-07-25 (Latest revision 2023-01-19) | ||
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Abstract
Massive pervasive monitoring attacks using key exfiltration and made possible by key exchange without forward secrecy have been reported. If key exchange without Diffie-Hellman is used, static exfiltration of the long-term authentication keys enables passive attackers to compromise all past and future connections. Malicious actors can get access to long-term keys in different ways: physical attacks, hacking, social engineering attacks, espionage, or by simply demanding access to keying material with or without a court order. Exfiltration attacks are a major cybersecurity threat. If NULL encryption is used an on-path attacker can read all application data. The use of psk_ke and NULL encryption are not following zero trust principles of minimizing the impact of breach and governments have already made deadlines for their deprecation. This document evaluates TLS pre-shared key exchange modes, (EC)DHE groups, signature algorithms, and cipher suites and downgrades many entries to "N" and "D" where "D" indicates that the entries are "Discouraged".
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