ACE Working Group F. Palombini
Internet-Draft Ericsson AB
Intended status: Standards Track M. Tiloca
Expires: September 10, 2020 RISE AB
March 09, 2020
Key Provisioning for Group Communication using ACE
draft-ietf-ace-key-groupcomm-05
Abstract
This document defines message formats and procedures for requesting
and distributing group keying material using the ACE framework, to
protect communications between group members.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Authorization to Join a Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. Authorization Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2. Authorization Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. Token Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Keying Material Provisioning and Group Membership Management 13
4.1. Interface at the KDC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2. Joining Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.3. Retrieval of Updated Keying Material . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.4. Retrieval of New Keying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.5. Retrieval of Public Keys and Roles for Group Members . . 29
4.6. Update of Public Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.7. Retrieval of Group Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.8. Retrieval of Keying Material Version . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.9. Group Leaving Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5. Removal of a Node from the Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6. ACE Groupcomm Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
7.1. Update of Keying Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
7.2. Block-Wise Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.1. Media Type Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
8.2. CoAP Content-Formats Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.3. ACE Authorization Server Request Creation Hints Registry 37
8.4. ACE Groupcomm Parameters Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.5. ACE Groupcomm Key Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.6. ACE Groupcomm Profile Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
8.7. ACE Groupcomm Policy Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8.8. Sequence Number Synchronization Method Registry . . . . . 41
8.9. Expert Review Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9.3. URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix A. Requirements on Application Profiles . . . . . . . . 45
Appendix B. Document Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
B.1. Version -04 to -05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
B.2. Version -03 to -04 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
B.3. Version -02 to -03 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
B.4. Version -01 to -02 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
B.5. Version -00 to -01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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1. Introduction
This document expands the ACE framework [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] to
define the message exchanges used to request, distribute and renew
the keying material in a group communication scenario, e.g. based on
multicast [I-D.dijk-core-groupcomm-bis] or on publishing-subscribing
[I-D.ietf-core-coap-pubsub]. The ACE framework is based on CBOR
[RFC7049], so CBOR is the format used in this specification.
However, using JSON [RFC8259] instead of CBOR is possible, using the
conversion method specified in Sections 4.1 and 4.2 of [RFC7049].
Profiles that use group communication can build on this document, by
defining a number of details such as the exact group communication
protocol and security protocols used. The specific list of details a
profile needs to define is shown in Appendix A.
If the application requires backward and forward security, new keying
material is generated and distributed to the group upon membership
changes. A key management scheme performs the actual distribution of
the new keying material to the group. In particular, the key
management scheme rekeys the current group members when a new node
joins the group, and the remaining group members when a node leaves
the group. Rekeying mechanisms can be based on [RFC2093], [RFC2094]
and [RFC2627].
1.1. 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.
Readers are expected to be familiar with the terms and concepts
described in [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] and [RFC8152], such as
Authorization Server (AS) and Resource Server (RS).
This document additionally uses the following terminology:
o Transport profile, to indicate a profile of ACE as per
Section 5.6.4.3 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]. A transport
profile specifies the communication protocol and communication
security protocol between an ACE Client and Resource Server, as
well as proof-of-possession methods, if it supports proof-of-
possession access tokens, etc. Tranport profiles of ACE include,
for instance, [I-D.ietf-ace-oscore-profile],
[I-D.ietf-ace-dtls-authorize] and [I-D.ietf-ace-mqtt-tls-profile].
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o Application profile, that defines how applications enforce and use
supporting security services they require. These services may
include, for instance, provisioning, revocation and
(re-)distribution of keying material. An application profile may
define specific procedures and message formats.
2. Overview
+------------+ +-----------+
| AS | | KDC |
| | .-------->| |
+------------+ / +-----------+
^ /
| /
v / +-----------+
+------------+ / +------------+ |+-----------+
| Client |<-' | Dispatcher | ||+-----------+
| |<-------->| (RS) |<------->|| Group |
+------------+ +------------+ +| members |
+-----------+
Figure 1: Key Distribution Participants
The following participants (see Figure 1) take part in the
authorization and key distribution.
o Client (C): node that wants to join the group communication. It
can request write and/or read rights.
o Authorization Server (AS): same as AS in the ACE Framework; it
enforces access policies, and knows if a node is allowed to join a
given group with write and/or read rights.
o Key Distribution Center (KDC): maintains the keying material to
protect group communications, and provides it to Clients
authorized to join a given group. During the first part of the
exchange (Section 3), it takes the role of the RS in the ACE
Framework. During the second part (Section 4), which is not based
on the ACE Framework, it distributes the keying material. In
addition, it provides the latest keying material to group members
when requested or, if required by the application, when membership
changes.
o Dispatcher: entity through which the Clients communicate with the
group and which distributes messages to the group members.
Examples of dispatchers are: the Broker node in a pub-sub setting;
a relayer node for group communication that delivers group
messages as multiple unicast messages to all group members; an
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implicit entity as in a multicast communication setting, where
messages are transmitted to a multicast IP address and delivered
on the transport channel.
This document specifies a mechanism for:
o Authorizing a new node to join the group (Section 3), and
providing it with the group keying material to communicate with
the other group members (Section 4).
o A node to leave the group of for the KDC to remove a current
member of the group (Section 5).
o Retrieving keying material as a current group member (Section 4.3
and Section 4.4).
o Renewing and re-distributing the group keying material (rekeying)
upon a membership change in the group (Section 4.9 and Section 5).
Figure 2 provides a high level overview of the message flow for a
node joining a group communication setting, which can be expanded as
follows.
1. The joining node requests an Access Token from the AS, in order
to access a specific group-membership resource on the KDC and
hence join the associated group. The joining node will start or
continue using a secure communication association with the KDC,
according to the response from the AS.
2. The joining node transfers authentication and authorization
information to the KDC, by posting the obtained Access Token to
the /authz-info endpoint at the KDC. After that, a joining node
MUST have a secure communication association established with the
KDC, before starting to join a group under that KDC. Possible
ways to provide a secure communication association are DTLS
[RFC6347] and OSCORE [RFC8613].
3. The joining node starts the joining process to become a member of
the group, by accessing the related group-membership resource at
the KDC. At the end of the joining process, the joining node has
received from the KDC the parameters and keying material to
securely communicate with the other members of the group, and the
KDC has stored the association between the authorization
information from the access token and the secure session with the
client.
4. The joining node and the KDC maintain the secure association, to
support possible future communications. These especially include
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key management operations, such as retrieval of updated keying
material or participation to a group rekeying process.
C AS KDC Group
| | | Member
/ | | | |
| | Authorization Request | | |
Defined | |-------------------------->| | |
in the | | | | |
ACE | | Authorization Response | | |
framework | |<--------------------------| | |
| | | |
\ |---------- Token Post --------->| |
| | |
|------- Joining Request ------->| |
| | |
|<------ Joining Response -------|-- Group Rekeying -->|
| | |
| Dispatcher |
| | |
|<===== Secure group communication =======|===========>|
| | |
Figure 2: Message Flow Upon New Node's Joining
The exchange of Authorization Request and Authorization Response
between Client and AS MUST be secured, as specified by the transport
profile of ACE used between Client and KDC.
The exchange of Joining Request and Joining Response between Client
and KDC MUST be secured, as a result of the transport profile of ACE
used between Client and KDC.
All further communications between the Client and the KDC MUST be
secured, for instance with the same security mechanism used for the
Key Distribution exchange.
All communications between a Client and the other group members MUST
be secured using the keying material provided in Section 4.
3. Authorization to Join a Group
This section describes in detail the format of messages exchanged by
the participants when a node requests access to a group. This
exchange is based on ACE [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz].
As defined in [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], the Client requests from
the AS an authorization to join the group through the KDC (see
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Section 3.1). If the request is approved and authorization is
granted, the AS provides the Client with a proof-of-possession access
token and parameters to securely communicate with the KDC (see
Section 3.2).
Communications between the Client and the AS MUST be secured, as
defined by the transport profile of ACE used. The Content-Format
used in the messages is the one specified by the used transport
profile of ACE (e.g. application/ace+cbor for the first two messages
and application/cwt for the third message, depending on the format of
the access token). The transport profile of ACE also defines a
number of details such as the communication and security protocols
used with the KDC (see Appendix C of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]).
Figure 3 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
Client AS KDC
| | |
|---- Authorization Request: POST /token ------>| |
| | |
|<--- Authorization Response: 2.01 (Created) ---| |
| | |
|----- POST Token: POST /authz-info --------------->|
| |
Figure 3: Message Flow of Join Authorization
3.1. Authorization Request
The Authorization Request sent from the Client to the AS is as
defined in Section 5.6.1 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] and MAY
contain the following parameters, which, if included, MUST have the
corresponding values:
o 'scope', containing the identifier of the specific group(s), or
topic(s) in the case of pub-sub, that the Client wishes to access,
and optionally the role(s) that the Client wishes to take.
This value is a CBOR byte string, encoding a CBOR array of one or
more entries.
An entry has as value a CBOR array, which contains:
* As first element, the identifier of the specific group or
topic.
* Optionally, as second element, the role (or CBOR array of
roles) that the Client wishes to take in the group. This
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element is optional since roles may have been pre-assigned to
the Client, as associated to its verifiable identity
credentials. Alternatively, the application may have defined a
single, well-known role for the target resource(s) and
audience(s).
In each entry, the encoding of the group or topic identifier
(REQ1) and of the role identifiers (REQ2) is application specific,
and part of the requirements for the application profile.
In particular, the application profile may specify CBOR values to
use for abbreviating role identifiers (OPT7).
An example of CDDL definition of scope, with group identifier
encoded as byte string and role identifier as text string, is
given in Figure 4.
o 'audience', with an identifier of a KDC.
o 'req_cnf', as defined in Section 3.1 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-params], optionally containing the public key
or a reference to the public key of the Client, if it wishes to
communicate that to the AS.
o Other additional parameters as defined in
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], if necessary.
As in [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], these parameters are included in
the payload, which is formatted as a CBOR map. The Content-Format
"application/ace+cbor" defined in Section 8.14 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] is used.
scp = [ gid : bstr , ? ( role: tstr / [ 2*role ] ) ]
scope = << [ + scp ] >>
Figure 4: CDDL example of scope, with group identifier encoded as
bstr and role as tstr
3.2. Authorization Response
The Authorization Response sent from the AS to the Client is as
defined in Section 5.6.2 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] and MUST
contain the following parameters:
o 'access_token', containing the proof-of-possession access token.
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o 'cnf' if symmetric keys are used, not present if asymmetric keys
are used. This parameter is defined in Section 3.2 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-params] and contains the symmetric proof-of-
possession key that the Client is supposed to use with the KDC.
o 'rs_cnf' if asymmetric keys are used, not present if symmetric
keys are used. This parameter is as defined in Section 3.2 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-params] and contains information about the
public key of the KDC.
o 'expires_in', contains the lifetime in seconds of the access
token. This parameter MAY be omitted if the application defines
how the expiration time is communicated to the Client via other
means, or if it establishes a default value.
Additionally, the Authorization Response MAY contain the following
parameters, which, if included, MUST have the corresponding values:
o 'scope' containing the granted scope, if different from the scope
requested by the client. This parameter has the same format and
encoding of 'scope' in the Authorization Request, defined in
Section 3.1.
o Other additional parameters as defined in
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], if necessary.
The access token MUST contain all the parameters defined above
(including the same 'scope' as in this message, if present, or the
'scope' of the Authorization Request otherwise), and additionally
other optional parameters that the transport profile of ACE requires.
As in [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], these parameters are included in
the payload, which is formatted as a CBOR map. The Content-Format
"application/ace+cbor" is used.
When receiving an Authorization Request from a Client that was
previously authorized, and which still owns a valid non expired
access token, the AS replies with an Authorization Response with a
new access token.
3.3. Token Post
The Client sends a CoAP POST request including the access token to
the KDC, as specified in Section 5.8.1 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz].
If the specific transport profile of ACE defines it, the Client MAY
use a different endpoint than /authz-info at the KDC to post the
access token to.
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Optionally, the Client might want to request necessary information
concerning the public keys in the group, as well as concerning the
algorithm and related parameters for computing signatures in the
group. In such a case, the joining node MAY ask for that information
to the KDC in this same request. To this end, it sends the CoAP POST
request to the /authz-info endpoint using the Content-Format
"application/ace+cbor". The payload of the message MUST be formatted
as a CBOR map, including the access token and the following
parameters:
o 'sign_info' defined in Section 3.3.1, encoding the CBOR simple
value Null, to require information and parameters on the signature
algorithm and on the public keys used in the group.
o 'pub_key_enc' defined in Section 3.3.2, encoding the CBOR simple
value Null, to require information on the exact encoding of public
keys used in the group.
The CDDL notation of the 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' parameters
formatted as in the request is given below.
sign_info_req = nil
pub_key_enc_req = nil
Alternatively, the joining node may retrieve this information by
other means.
After successful verification, the Client is authorized to receive
the group keying material from the KDC and join the group. In
particular, the KDC replies to the Client with a 2.01 (Created)
response, using Content-Format "application/ace+cbor" defined in
Section 8.14 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz].
The payload of the 2.01 response is a CBOR map, which MUST include
the parameter 'rsnonce' defined in Section Section 3.3.3, specifying
a dedicated nonce N_S generated by the KDC. The Client may use this
nonce for proving possession of its own private key (see the
'client_cred_verify' parameter in Section 4). Note that the payload
format of the response deviates from the default as defined in the
ACE framework (see Section 5.8.1 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]).
Optionally, if they were included in the request, the KDC MAY include
the 'sign_info' parameter as well as the 'pub_key_enc' parameter
defined in Section 3.3.1 and Section 3.3.2 of this specification,
respectively.
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The 'sign_info' parameter MUST be present if the POST request
included the 'sign_info' parameter with value Null. If present, the
'sign_info' parameter of the 2.01 (Created) response is a CBOR array
formatted as follows.
TODO: have 'sign_info' as an array of arrays, if 'scope' in the
Access Token covers multiple groups/topics.
o The first element 'sign_alg' is an integer or a text string,
indicating the signature algorithm used in the group. It is
REQUIRED of the application profiles to define specific values
that this parameter can take (REQ3), selected from the set of
signing algorithms of the COSE Algorithms registry defined in
[RFC8152].
o The second element 'sign_parameters' indicates the parameters of
the signature algorithm. Its structure depends on the value of
'sign_alg'. It is REQUIRED of the application profiles to define
specific values for this parameter (REQ4). If no parameters of
the signature algorithm are specified, 'sign_parameters' MUST be
encoded as the CBOR simple value Null.
o The third element 'sign_key_parameters' indicates the parameters
of the key used with the signature algorithm. Its structure
depends on the value of 'sign_alg'. It is REQUIRED of the
application profiles to define specific values for this parameter
(REQ5). If no parameters of the key used with the signature
algorithm are specified, 'sign_key_parameters' MUST be encoded as
the CBOR simple value Null.
The 'pub_key_enc' parameter MUST be present if the POST request
included the 'pub_key_enc' parameter with value Null. If present,
the 'pub_key_enc' parameter of the 2.01 (Created) response is either
a CBOR integer indicating the encoding of public keys used in the
group, or has value Null indicating that the KDC does not act as
repository of public keys for group members.
TODO: have 'pub_key_enc' as an array, if 'scope' in the Access Token
covers multiple groups/topics.
Its acceptable values are taken from the "CWT Confirmation Method"
Registry defined in [I-D.ietf-ace-cwt-proof-of-possession]. It is
REQUIRED of the application profiles to define specific values to use
for this parameter (REQ6).
The CDDL notation of the 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' parameters
formatted as in the response is given below.
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sign_info_res = [
sign_alg : int / tstr,
sign_parameters : any / nil,
sign_key_parameters : any / nil
]
pub_key_enc_res = int / nil
Note that the CBOR map specified as payload of the 2.01 (Created)
response may include further parameters, e.g. according to the
signalled transport profile of ACE.
Applications of this specification MAY define alternative specific
negotiations of parameter values for signature algorithm and
signature keys, if 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' are not used (OPT2).
3.3.1. 'sign_info' Parameter
The 'sign_info' parameter is an OPTIONAL parameter of the AS Request
Creation Hints message defined in Section 5.1.2. of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]. This parameter contains information and
parameters about the signature algorithm and the public keys to be
used between the Client and the RS. Its exact content is application
specific.
In this specification and in application profiles building on it,
this parameter is used to ask and retrieve from the KDC information
about the signature algorithm and related parameters used in the
group.
3.3.2. 'pub_key_enc' Parameter
The 'pub_key_enc' parameter is an OPTIONAL parameter of the AS
Request Creation Hints message defined in Section 5.1.2. of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]. This parameter contains information
about the exact encoding of public keys to be used between the Client
and the RS. Its exact content is application specific.
In this specification and in application profiles building on it,
this parameter is used to ask and retrieve from the KDC information
about the encoding of public keys used in the group.
3.3.3. 'rsnonce' Parameter
The 'rsnonce' parameter is an OPTIONAL parameter of the AS Request
Creation Hints message defined in Section 5.1.2. of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]. This parameter contains a nonce
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generated by the RS and provided to the Client. Its exact content is
application specific.
In this specification and in application profiles building on it,
this parameter is used to provide a nonce that the Client may use to
prove possession of its own private key in the Joining Request ((see
the 'client_cred_verify' parameter in Section 4).
4. Keying Material Provisioning and Group Membership Management
This section defines the interface available at the KDC. Moreover,
this section specifies how the clients can use this interface to join
a group, leave a group, retrieve new keying material or policies.
During the first exchange with the KDC ("Joining"), the Client sends
a request to the KDC, specifying the group it wishes to join (see
Section 4.2). Then, the KDC verifies the access token and that the
Client is authorized to join that group. If so, it provides the
Client with the keying material to securely communicate with the
other members of the group. Whenever used, the Content-Format in
messages containing a payload is set to application/ace-
groupcomm+cbor, as defined in Section 8.2.
When the Client is already a group member, the Client can use the
interface at the KDC to perform the following actions:
o The Client can (re-)get the current keying material, for cases
such as expiration, loss or suspected mismatch, due to e.g. reboot
or missed group rekeying. This is described in Section 4.3.
o The Client can retrieve a new individual key, or new input
material to derive it. This is described in Section 4.4.
o The Client can (re-)get the public keys of other group members,
e.g. if it is aware of new nodes joining the group after itself.
This is described in Section 4.5.
o The Client can (re-)get the policies currently enforced in the
group. This is described in Section 4.7.
o The Client can (re-)get the version number of the keying material
currently used in the group. This is described in Section 4.8.
o The Client can request to leave the group. This is further
discussed in Section 4.9.
Upon receiving a request from a Client, the KDC MUST check that it is
storing a valid access token from that Client for the group
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identifier assiciated to the endpoint. If that is not the case, i.e.
the KDC does not store a valid access token or this is not valid for
that Client for the group identifier at hand, the KDC MUST respond to
the Client with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
4.1. Interface at the KDC
The KDC is configured with the following resources:
o /ace-group : this resource is fixed and indicates that this
specification is used. Other applications that run on a KDC
implementing this specification MUST NOT use this same resource.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME : one sub-resource to /ace-group is
implemented for each group the KDC manages. These resources are
identified by the group identifiers of the groups the KDC manages
(in this example, the group identifier has value "GROUPNAME").
These resources support GET and POST method.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME/pub-key : this sub-resource is fixed and
supports GET and FETCH methods.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME/policies: this sub-resource is fixed and
supports the GET method.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME/ctx-num: this sub-resource is fixed and
supports the GET method.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME: one sub-resource to /ace-
group/GROUPNAME is implemented for each node in the group the KDC
manages. These resources are identified by the node name (in this
example, the node name has value "NODENAME"). These resources
support GET, PUT and DELETE methods.
o /ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME/pub-key: one sub-resource to
/ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME is implemented for each node
in the group the KDC manages. These resources are identified by
the node name (in this example, the node name has value
"NODENAME"). These resources support the POST method.
The details for the handlers of each resource are given in the
following sections. These endpoints are used to perform the
operations introduced in Section 4. Note that the url-path given
here are default names: implementations are not required to use these
names, and can define their own instead.
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4.1.1. ace-group
No handlers are implemented for this resource.
4.1.2. ace-group/GROUPNAME
This resource implements GET and POST handlers.
4.1.2.1. POST Handler
The POST handler adds the public key of the client to the list of the
group members' public keys and returns the symmetric group keying
material for the group identified by "GROUPNAME".
The handler expects a request with payload formatted as a CBOR map
which MAY contain the following fields, which, if included, MUST have
the corresponding values:
o 'scope', with value the specific resource that the Client is
authorized to access, i.e. group or topic identifier, and role(s).
This value is a CBOR byte string encoding one scope entry, as
defined in Section 3.1.
o 'get_pub_keys', if the Client wishes to receive the public keys of
the other nodes in the group from the KDC. The value is an empty
CBOR array. This parameter may be present if the KDC stores the
public keys of the nodes in the group and distributes them to the
Client; it is useless to have here if the set of public keys of
the members of the group is known in another way, e.g. it was
provided by the AS.
o 'client_cred', with value the public key or certificate of the
Client, encoded as a CBOR byte string. This field contains the
public key of the Client. This field is used if the KDC is
managing (collecting from/distributing to the Client) the public
keys of the group members, and if the Client's role in the group
will require for it to send messages to the group. The default
encoding for public keys is COSE Keys. Alternative specific
encodings of this parameter MAY be defined in applications of this
specification (OPT1).
o 'cnonce', as defined in Section 5.1.2 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz], and including a dedicated nonce N_C
generated by the Client. This parameter MUST be present if the
'client_cred' parameter is present.
o 'client_cred_verify', encoded as a CBOR byte string. This
parameter MUST be present if the 'client_cred' parameter is
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present. This parameter contains a signature computed by the
Client over N_S concatenated with N_C, where N_S is the nonce
received from the KDC in the 'rsnonce' parameter of the 2.01
(Created) response to the token POST request (see Section 3.3),
while N_C is the nonce generated by the Client and specified in
the 'cnonce' parameter above. If the token is not being posted
(e.g. if it is used directly to validate TLS instead), it is
REQUIRED of the specific profile to define how the nonce N_S is
generated (REQ17). The Client computes the signature by using its
own private key, whose corresponding public key is either directly
specified in the 'client_cred' parameter or included in the
certificate specified in the 'client_cred' parameter.
o 'pub_keys_repos', can be present if a certificate is present in
the 'client_cred' field, with value the URI of the certificate of
the Client. This parameter is encoded as a CBOR text string.
Alternative specific encodings of this parameter MAY be defined in
applications of this specification (OPT3).
o 'control_path', with value the URI path of a resource at the
Client, encoded as a CBOR text string. This resource is intended
to be accessible for the KDC to send request messages to the
Client, such as for individual provisioning of new keying material
when performing a group rekeying. In particular, this resource is
intended for communications concerning exclusively the group or
topic specified in the 'scope' parameter. Note that, in order to
support mechanisms of rekeying using this resource, the Client
needs to be able to act as a CoAP server.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message. The KDC MAY set
the payload with the 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' parameter,
formatted as 'sign_info_res' and 'pub_key_enc_res' in the payload of
the 2.01 (Created) response to the Token Post as defined in
Section 3.3. Note that in this case, the content format MUST be set
to application/ace+cbor.
If the request is not formatted correctly (e.g. unknown, not-expected
fields present, or expected fields with incorrect format), the
handler MUST respond with a 4.00 (Bad Request) error message. The
response MAY contain a CBOR map in the payload with ace-
groupcomm+cbor format, e.g. it could send back "pub_key_enc" set to
Null if the Client sent its own public key and the KDC is not set to
store public keys of the group members. Application profiles MAY
define optional or mandatory payload formats for specific error cases
(OPT6).
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If the KDC stores the group members' public keys, the handler
verifies that one public key can be retrieved for the node, either
from the 'client_cred' field, or from the KDC previous knowledge of
it. In particular, the KDC checks that such public key has an
accepted format for the group identified by "GROUPNAME", i.e. it is
encoded as expected and is compatible with the signature algorithm
and possible associated parameters. If that cannot be verified, it
is RECOMMENDED that the handler stops the process and responds with a
4.00 (Bad Request) error message. Applications profiles MAY define
alternatives (OPT5).
If the signature contained in "client_cred_verify" does not pass
verification, the handler MUST respond with a 4.00 (Bad Request)
error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler adds the retrieved public key
of the node to the list of public keys stored for the group
identified by "GROUPNAME". Moreover, the handler assigns a name NAME
to the node, and creates a sub-resource to /ace-group/GROUPNAME/ at
the KDC (e.g. "/ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME"). The handler
returns a 2.01 (Created) message containing the symmetric group
keying material, the group policies and all the public keys of the
current members of the group, if the KDC manages those and the Client
requested them. The response message also contains the URI path to
the sub-resource created for that node in a Location-Path CoAP
option. The payload of the response is formatted as a CBOR map which
MAY contain the following fields, which, if included, MUST have the
corresponding values:
o 'gkty', identifying the key type of the 'key' parameter. The set
of values can be found in the "Key Type" column of the "ACE
Groupcomm Key" Registry. Implementations MUST verify that the key
type matches the application profile being used, if present, as
registered in the "ACE Groupcomm Key" registry.
o 'key', containing the keying material for the group communication,
or information required to derive it.
o 'num', containing the version number of the keying material for
the group communication, formatted as an integer. The initial
version MUST be set to 0 at the KDC. This is a strictly monotonic
increasing field.
The exact format of the 'key' value MUST be defined in applications
of this specification (REQ7), as well as accepted values of 'gkty' by
the application (REQ8). Additionally, documents specifying the key
format MUST register it in the "ACE Groupcomm Key" registry defined
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in Section 8.5, including its name, type and application profile to
be used with.
+----------+----------------+---------+-------------------------+
| Name | Key Type Value | Profile | Description |
+----------+----------------+---------+-------------------------+
| Reserved | 0 | | This value is reserved |
+----------+----------------+---------+-------------------------+
Figure 5: Key Type Values
Optionally, the response MAY contain the following parameters, which,
if included, MUST have the corresponding values:
o 'ace-groupcomm-profile', with value a CBOR integer that MUST be
used to uniquely identify the application profile for group
communication. Applications of this specification MUST register
an application profile identifier and the related value for this
parameter in the "ACE Groupcomm Profile" Registry (REQ12).
o 'exp', with value the expiration time of the keying material for
the group communication, encoded as a CBOR unsigned integer or
floating-point number. This field contains a numeric value
representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z UTC
until the specified UTC date/time, ignoring leap seconds,
analogous to what specified for NumericDate in Section 2 of
[RFC7519].
o 'pub_keys', may only be present if 'get_pub_keys' was present in
the request. This parameter is a CBOR byte string, which encodes
the public keys of all the group members paired with the
respective member identifiers. The default encoding for public
keys is COSE Keys, so the default encoding for 'pub_keys' is a
CBOR byte string wrapping a COSE_KeySet (see [RFC8152]), which
contains the public keys of all the members of the group. In
particular, each COSE Key in the COSE_KeySet includes the
identifier of the corresponding group member as value of its 'kid'
key parameter. Alternative specific encodings of this parameter
MAY be defined in applications of this specification (OPT1). The
specific format of the identifiers of group members MUST be
specified in the application profile (REQ9).
o 'peer_roles', MUST be present if 'pub_keys' is present. This
parameter is a CBOR array of n elements, with n the number of
members in the group (and number of public keys included in the
'pub_keys' parameter). The i-th element of the array specifies
the role (or CBOR array of roles) that the group member associated
to the i-th public key in 'pub_keys' has in the group. In
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particular, each array element is encoded as the role element of a
scope entry, as defined in Section 3.1.
o 'group_policies', with value a CBOR map, whose entries specify how
the group handles specific management aspects. These include, for
instance, approaches to achieve synchronization of sequence
numbers among group members. The elements of this field are
registered in the "ACE Groupcomm Policy" Registry. This
specification defines the two elements "Sequence Number
Synchronization Method" and "Key Update Check Interval", which are
summarized in Figure 6. Application profiles that build on this
document MUST specify the exact content format of included map
entries (REQ14).
+--------------+-------+----------|--------------------|------------+
| Name | CBOR | CBOR | Description | Reference |
| | label | type | | |
|--------------+-------+----------|--------------------|------------|
| Sequence | TBD1 | tstr/int | Method for a re- | [[this |
| Number | | | cipient node to | document]] |
| Synchroniza- | | | synchronize with | |
| tion Method | | | sequence numbers | |
| | | | of a sender node. | |
| | | | Its value is taken | |
| | | | from the 'Value' | |
| | | | column of the | |
| | | | Sequence Number | |
| | | | Synchronization | |
| | | | Method registry | |
| | | | | |
| Key Update | TBD2 | int | Polling interval | [[this |
| Check | | | in seconds, to | document]] |
| Interval | | | check for new | |
| | | | keying material at | |
| | | | the KDC | |
+--------------+-------+----------|--------------------|------------+
Figure 6: ACE Groupcomm Policies
o 'mgt_key_material', encoded as a CBOR byte string and containing
the administrative keying material to participate in the group
rekeying performed by the KDC. The application profile MUST
define if this field is used, and if used then MUST specify the
exact format and content which depend on the specific rekeying
scheme used in the group. If the usage of 'mgt_key_material' is
indicated and its format defined for a specific key management
scheme, that format must explicitly indicate the key management
scheme itself. If a new rekeying scheme is defined to be used for
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an existing 'mgt_key_material' in an existing profile, then that
profile will have to be updated accordingly, especially with
respect to the usage of 'mgt_key_material' related format and
content (REQ18).
Specific application profiles that build on this document MUST
specify the communication protocol that members of the group use to
communicate with each other (REQ10) and how exactly the keying
material is used to protect the group communication (REQ11).
CBOR labels for these fields are defined in Section 6.
4.1.2.2. GET Handler
The GET handler returns the symmetric group keying material for the
group identified by "GROUPNAME".
The handler expects a GET request.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message. The KDC MAY set
the payload with the 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' parameter,
formatted as 'sign_info_res' and 'pub_key_enc_res' in the payload of
the 2.01 (Created) response to the Token Post as defined in
Section 3.3. Note that in this case, the content format MUST be set
to application/ace+cbor.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing the symmetric group keying material. The payload
of the response is formatted as a CBOR map which MUST contain the
parameters 'gkty','key' and 'num' specified in Section 4.1.2.1.
The payload MAY also include the parameters 'ace-groupcomm-profile',
'exp' and 'mgt_key_material' parameters specified in Section 4.1.2.1.
4.1.3. ace-group/GROUPNAME/pub-key
This resource implements GET and FETCH handlers.
4.1.3.1. FETCH Handler
The FETCH handler receives identifiers of group members for the group
identified by "GROUPNAME" and returns the public keys of such group
members.
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The handler expects a request with payload formatted as a CBOR map.
The payload of this request is a CBOR Map that MUST contain the
following fields:
o 'get_pub_keys', whose value is a non-empty CBOR array. Each
element of the array is the identifier of a group member for the
group identified by "GROUPNAME". The specific format of public
keys as well as identifiers of group members MUST be specified by
the application profile (OPT1, REQ9).
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler identifies the public keys of
the current group members for which the identifier matches with one
of those indicated in the request. Then, the handler returns a 2.05
(Content) message response with payload formatted as a CBOR map,
containing only the 'pub_keys' and 'peer_roles' parameters from
Section 4.1.2.1. In particular, 'pub_keys' encodes the list of
public keys of those group members including the respective member
identifiers, while 'peer_roles' encodes their respective role (or
CBOR array of roles) in the group.
If the KDC does not store any public key associated with the
specified member identifiers, the handler returns a response with
payload formatted as a CBOR byte string of zero length. The specific
format of public keys as well as of identifiers of group members is
specified by the application profile (OPT1, REQ9).
The handler MAY enforce one of the following policies, in order to
handle possible identifiers that are included in the 'get_pub_keys'
parameter of the request but are not associated to any current group
member. Such a policy MUST be specified by the application profile
(REQ13)
o The KDC silently ignores those identifiers.
o The KDC retains public keys of group members for a given amount of
time after their leaving, before discarding them. As long as such
public keys are retained, the KDC provides them to a requesting
Client.
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4.1.3.2. GET Handler
The handler expects a GET request.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing the public keys of all the current group members,
for the group identified by "GROUPNAME". The payload of the response
is formatted as a CBOR map, containing only the 'pub_keys' and
'peer_roles' parameters from Section 4.1.2.1. In particular,
'pub_keys' encodes the list of public keys of those group members
including the respective member identifiers, while 'peer_roles'
encodes their respective role (or CBOR array of roles) in the group.
If the KDC does not store any public key for the group, the handler
returns a response with payload formatted as a CBOR byte string of
zero length. The specific format of public keys as well as of
identifiers of group members is specified by the application profile
(OPT1, REQ9).
4.1.4. ace-group/GROUPNAME/policies
This resource implements a GET handler.
4.1.4.1. GET Handler
The handler expects a GET request.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing the list of policies for the group identified by
"GROUPNAME". The payload of the response is formatted as a CBOR map
including only the parameter 'group_policies' defined in
Section 4.1.2.1 and specifying the current policies in the group. If
the KDC does not store any policy, the payload is formatted as a
zero-length CBOR byte string.
The specific format and meaning of group policies MUST be specified
in the application profile (REQ14).
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4.1.5. ace-group/GROUPNAME/ctx-num
This resource implements a GET handler.
4.1.5.1. GET Handler
The handler expects a GET request.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client. If verification fails, the KDC MUST
respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing an integer that represents the version number of
the symmetric group keying material. This number is incremented on
the KDC every time the KDC updates the symmetric group keying
material. The payload of the response is formatted as a CBOR
integer.
4.1.6. ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME
This resource implements GET, PUT and DELETE handlers.
4.1.6.1. PUT Handler
The PUT handler is used to get the KDC to produce and return
individual keying material to protect outgoing messages for the node
(identified by "NODENAME") for the group identified by "GROUPNAME".
The handler expects a request with empty payload.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client, identified by "NODENAME". If verification
fails, the KDC MUST respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing newly-generated individual keying material for the
Client, or information enabling the Client to derive it. The payload
of the response is formatted as a CBOR map. The specific format of
newly-generated individual keying material for group members, or of
the information to derive it, and corresponding CBOR label, MUST be
specified in the application profile (REQ15) and registered in
Section 8.4.
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4.1.6.2. GET Handler
The handler expects a GET request.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client, identified by "NODENAME". If verification
fails, the KDC MUST respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler returns a 2.05 (Content)
message containing both the group keying material and the individual
keying material for the Client, or information enabling the Client to
derive it. The payload of the response is formatted as a CBOR map.
The format for the group keying material is the same as defined in
the response of Section 4.1.2.2. The specific format of individual
keying material for group members, or of the information to derive
it, and corresponding CBOR label, MUST be specified in the
application profile (REQ15) and registered in Section 8.4.
4.1.6.3. DELETE Handler
The DELETE handler removes the node identified by "NODENAME" from the
group identified by "GROUPNAME". If the node sending the request and
the node name used in the Uri-Path do not match, the handler responds
with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error response.
The handler expects a request with payload formatted as a CBOR map.
The payload of this request is a CBOR Map that MAY contain only the
'scope' field as specified in Section 4.1.2.1.
The handler verifies that the group identifier of the /ace-group/
GROUPNAME path is a subset of the 'scope' stored in the access token
associated to this client, identified by "NODENAME". If verification
fails, the KDC MUST respond with a 4.01 (Unauthorized) error message.
If the request contained a 'scope' field, the handler MUST extract
the roles for that client. If the value is such that the KDC cannot
extract all the necessary information to understand and process it
correctly (e.g. unrecognized roles), the KDC MUST respond with a 4.00
(Bad Request) error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler removes the client from the
group identified by "GROUPNAME", for specific roles if roles were
specified in the 'scope' field, or for all roles. That includes
removing the public key of the client if the KDC keep tracks of that.
Then, the handler delete the sub-resource nodes/NODENAME and returns
a 2.02 (Deleted) message with empty payload.
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4.1.7. ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME/pub-key
This resource implements a POST handler.
4.1.7.1. POST Handler
The POST handler is used to replace the stored public key of this
client (identified by "NODENAME") with the one specified in the
request at the KDC, for the group identified by "GROUPNAME".
The handler expects a POST request with payload as specified in
Section 4.1.2.1, with the difference that it includes only the
parameters 'client_cred', 'cnonce' and 'client_cred_verify'. In
particular, the signature included in 'client_cred_verify' is
expected to be computed as defined in Section 4.1.2.1. Since no
nonce N_S is provided by the KDC, it is REQUIRED of the specific
profile to define how the nonce N_S is generated (REQ17). The
specific format of public keys is specified by the application
profile (OPT1).
The handler verifies that the group identifier GROUPNAME is a subset
of the 'scope' stored in the access token associated to this client.
If verification fails, the KDC MUST respond with a 4.01
(Unauthorized) error message.
If the request is not formatted correctly (e.g. unknown, not-expected
fields present, or expected fields with incorrect format), the
handler MUST respond with a 4.00 (Bad Request) error message.
Application profiles MAY define optional or mandatory payload formats
for specific error cases (OPT6).
Otherwise, the handler checks that the public key specified in the
'client_cred' field has a valid format for the group identified by
"GROUPNAME", i.e. it is encoded as expected and is compatible with
the signature algorithm and possible associated parameters. If that
cannot be verified, the handler MUST respond with a 4.00 (Bad
Request) error message. Applications profiles MAY define
alternatives (OPT5).
Otherwise, the handler verifies the signature contained in the
'client_cred_verify' field of the request, using the public key
specified in the 'client_cred' field. If the signature does not pass
verification, the handler MUST respond with a 4.00 (Bad Request)
error message.
If verification succeeds, the handler replaces the old public key of
the node NODENAME with the one specified in the 'client_cred' field
of the request, and stores it as the new current public key of the
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node NODENAME, in the list of group members' public keys for the
group identified by GROUPNAME. Then, the handler replies with a 2.04
(Changed) response, which does not include a payload.
4.2. Joining Exchange
Figure 7 gives an overview of the Joining exchange between Client and
KDC, when the Client first joins a group.
Client KDC
| |
|----- Joining Request: POST /ace-group/GROUPNAME ------>|
| |
|<--------- Joining Response: 2.01 (Created) ----------- |
| Location-Path = "/ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME" |
Figure 7: Message Flow of First Exchange for Group Joining
If not previously established, the Client and the KDC MUST first
establish a pairwise secure communication channel (REQ16). This can
be achieved, for instance, by using a transport profile of ACE. The
Joining exchange MUST occur over that secure channel. The Client and
the KDC MAY use that same secure channel to protect further pairwise
communications that must be secured.
The secure communication protocol is REQUIRED to establish the secure
channel by using the proof-of-possession key bound to the access
token. As a result, the proof-of-possession to bind the access token
to the Client is performed by using the proof-of-possession key bound
to the access token for establishing secure communication between the
Client and the KDC.
To join the group, the Client sends a CoAP POST request to the /ace-
group/GROUPNAME endpoint at the KDC, where GROUPNAME is the group
identifier of the group to join, formatted as specified in
Section 4.1.2.1. This group identifier is the same as the scope
entry corresponding to that group, specified in the 'scope' parameter
of the Authorization Request/Response, or it can be retrieved from
it. Note that, in case of successful joining, the Client will
receive the URI to retrieve individual or group keying material and
to leave the group in the Location-Path option of the response.
If the application requires backward security, the KDC MUST generate
new group keying material and securely distribute it to all the
current group members, upon a new node's joining the group. To this
end, the KDC uses the message format of the Joining Response (see
Section 4.1.2.1). Application profiles may define alternative ways
of retrieving the keying material, such as sending separate requests
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to different resources at the KDC (Section 4.1.2.2, Section 4.1.3.2,
Section 4.1.4.1). After distributing the new group keying material,
the KDC MUST increment the version number of the keying material.
4.3. Retrieval of Updated Keying Material
When any of the following happens, a node MUST stop using the owned
group keying material to protect outgoing messages, and SHOULD stop
using it to decrypt and verify incoming messages.
o Upon expiration of the keying material, according to what
indicated by the KDC with the 'exp' parameter in a Joining
Response, or to a pre-configured value.
o Upon receiving a notification of revoked/renewed keying material
from the KDC, possibly as part of an update of the keying material
(rekeying) triggered by the KDC.
o Upon receiving messages from other group members without being
able to retrieve the keying material to correctly decrypt them.
This may be due to rekeying messages previously sent by the KDC,
that the Client was not able to receive or decrypt.
In either case, if it wants to continue participating in the group
communication, the node has to request the latest keying material
from the KDC. To this end, the Client sends a CoAP GET request to
the /ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME endpoint at the KDC,
formatted as specified in Section 4.1.6.2.
Note that policies can be set up, so that the Client sends a Key Re-
Distribution request to the KDC only after a given number of received
messages could not be decrypted (because of failed decryption
processing or inability to retrieve the necessary keying material).
It is application dependent and pertaining to the particular message
exchange (e.g. [I-D.ietf-core-oscore-groupcomm]) to set up these
policies, to instruct clients to retain incoming messages and for how
long (OPT4). This allows clients to possibly decrypt such messages
after getting updated keying material, rather than just consider them
non valid messages to discard right away.
The same Key Distribution Request could also be sent by the Client
without being triggered by a failed decryption of a message, if the
Client wants to be sure that it has the latest group keying material.
If that is the case, the Client will receive from the KDC the same
group keying material it already has in memory.
Figure 8 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
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Client KDC
| |
|------------------ Key Distribution Request: --------------->|
| GET ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME |
| |
|<-------- Key Distribution Response: 2.05 (Content) ---------|
| |
Figure 8: Message Flow of Key Distribution Request-Response
Alternatively, the re-distribution of keying material can be
initiated by the KDC, which e.g.:
o Can make the ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME resource
Observable, and send notifications to Clients when the keying
material is updated.
o Can send the payload of the Key Distribution Response in one or
multiple multicast POST requests to the members of the group,
using secure rekeying schemes such as [RFC2093][RFC2094][RFC2627].
o Can send unicast POST requests to each Client over a secure
channel, with the same payload as the Key Distribution Response.
When sending such requests, the KDC can target the URI path
possibly provided by the intended recipient upon joining the
group, as specified in the 'control_path' parameter of the Joining
Request (see Section 4.1.2.1).
o Can act as a publisher in a pub-sub scenario, and update the
keying material by publishing on a specific topic on a broker,
which all the members of the group are subscribed to.
Note that these methods of KDC-initiated key distribution have
different security properties and require different security
associations.
4.4. Retrieval of New Keying Material
Beside possible expiration and depending on what part of the keying
material is no longer eligible to be used, the client may need to
communicate to the KDC its need for that part to be renewed. For
example, if the Client uses an individual key to protect outgoing
traffic and has to renew it, the node may request a new one, or new
input material to derive it, without renewing the whole group keying
material.
To this end, the client performs a Key Renewal Request/Response
exchange with the KDC, i.e. it sends a CoAP PUT request to the /ace-
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group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME endpoint at the KDC, where GROUPNAME
is the group identifier and NODENAME is the node's name, and
formatted as defined in Section 4.1.6.2.
Figure 9 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
Client KDC
| |
|------------------ Key Renewal Request: -------------->|
| PUT ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME |
| |
|<-------- Key Renewal Response: 2.05 (Content) --------|
| |
Figure 9: Message Flow of Key Renewal Request-Response
Note the difference between the Key Distribution Request and the Key
Renewal Request: while the first one only triggers distribution (the
renewal might have happened independently, e.g. because of
expiration), the second one triggers the KDC to produce new
individual keying material for the requesting node.
Furthermore, policies can be set up so that, upon receiving a Key
Renewal Request, the KDC replies to the client with an error
response, and then performs a complete group rekeying (OPT8).
4.5. Retrieval of Public Keys and Roles for Group Members
In case the KDC maintains the public keys of group members, a node in
the group can contact the KDC to request public keys and roles of
either all group members or a specified subset, by sending a CoAP GET
or FETCH request to the /ace-group/GROUPNAME/pub-key endpoint at the
KDC, where GROUPNAME is the group identifier, and formatted as
defined in Section 4.1.3.2 and Section 4.1.3.1.
When receiving a Public Key Response, the requesting group member
stores (or updates) the public keys (in the 'pub_keys' parameter) and
roles (in the 'peer_roles' parameter) of the group members.
Figure 10 and Figure 11 give an overview of the exchanges described
above.
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Client KDC
| |
|--Public Key Request: GET /ace-group/GROUPNAME/pub-key->|
| |
|<--------- Public Key Response: 2.05 (Content) ---------|
| |
Figure 10: Message Flow of Public Key Exchange to Request All Members
Public Keys
Client KDC
| |
|-Public Key Request: FETCH /ace-group/GROUPNAME/pub-key->|
| |
|<--------- Public Key Response: 2.01 (Created) ----------|
| |
Figure 11: Message Flow of Public Key Exchange to Request Specific
Members Public Keys
4.6. Update of Public Key
In case the KDC maintains the public keys of group members, a node in
the group can contact the KDC to upload a new public key to use in
the group, and replace the currently stored one.
To this end, the Client performs a Public Key Update Request/Response
exchange with the KDC, i.e. it sends a CoAP POST request to the /ace-
group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME/pub-key endpoint at the KDC, where
GROUPNAME is the group identifier and NODENAME is the node's name.
The request is formatted as specified in Section 4.1.7.1.
Figure Figure 12 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
Client KDC
| |
|-------------- Public Key Update Request: ---------------------->|
| POST ace-group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME/pub-key |
| |
|<------- Public Key Update Response: 2.04 (Changed) -------------|
| |
Figure 12: Message Flow of Public Key Update Request-Response
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4.7. Retrieval of Group Policies
A node in the group can contact the KDC to retrieve the current group
policies, by sending a CoAP GET request to the /ace-group/GROUPNAME/
policies endpoint at the KDC, where GROUPNAME is the group
identifier, and formatted as defined in Section 4.1.4.1
Figure 13 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
Client KDC
| |
|-Policies Request: GET ace-group/GROUPNAME/policies ->|
| |
|<--------- Policies Response: 2.05 (Content) ---------|
| |
Figure 13: Message Flow of Policies Request-Response
4.8. Retrieval of Keying Material Version
A node in the group can contact the KDC to request information about
the version number of the symmetric group keying material, by sending
a CoAP GET request to the /ace-group/GROUPNAME/ctx-num endpoint at
the KDC, where GROUPNAME is the group identifier, formatted as
defined in Section 4.1.5.1. In particular, the version is
incremented by the KDC every time the group keying material is
renewed.
Figure 14 gives an overview of the exchange described above.
Client KDC
| |
|-- Version Request: GET ace-group/GROUPNAME/ctx-num -->|
| |
|<--------- Version Response: 2.05 (Content) -----------|
| |
Figure 14: Message Flow of Version Request-Response
4.9. Group Leaving Request
A node can actively request to leave the group. In this case, the
Client sends a CoAP DELETE request to the endpoint /ace-
group/GROUPNAME/nodes/NODENAME at the KDC, where GROUPNAME is the
group identifier and NODENAME is the node's name, formatted as
defined in Section 4.1.6.3
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Alternatively, a node may be removed by the KDC, without having
explicitly asked for it. This is further discussed in Section 5.
5. Removal of a Node from the Group
This section describes the different scenarios according to which a
node ends up being removed from the group.
If the application requires forward security, the KDC MUST generate
new group keying material and securely distribute it to all the
current group members but the leaving node, using the message format
of the Key Distribution Response (see Section 4.3). Application
profiles may define alternative message formats. Once distributed
the new group keying material, the KDC MUST increment the version
number of the keying material.
Note that, after having left the group, a node may wish to join it
again. Then, as long as the node is still authorized to join the
group, i.e. it still has a valid access token, it can re-request to
join the group directly to the KDC without needing to retrieve a new
access token from the AS. This means that the KDC might decide to
keep track of nodes with valid access tokens, before deleting all
information about the leaving node.
A node may be evicted from the group in the following cases.
1. The node explicitly asks to leave the group, as defined in
Section 4.9.
2. The node has been found compromised or is suspected so.
3. The node's authorization to be a group member is expired. If the
AS provides Token introspection (see Section 5.7 of
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]), the KDC can optionally use and check
whether:
* the node is not authorized anymore;
* the access token is still valid, upon its expiration.
In either case, once aware that a node is not authorized anymore, the
KDC has to remove the unauthorized node from the list of group
members, if the KDC keeps track of that.
In case of forced eviction, the KDC MAY explicitly inform the leaving
node, if the Client implements the 'control_path' resource specified
in Section 4.1.2.1. To this end, the KDC can send a DEL request,
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targeting the URI specified in the 'control_path' parameter of the
Joining Request.
6. ACE Groupcomm Parameters
This specification defines a number of fields used during the second
part of the message exchange, after the ACE Token POST exchange. The
table below summarizes them, and specifies the CBOR key to use
instead of the full descriptive name. Note that the media type ace-
groupcomm+cbor MUST be used when these fields are transported.
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+-----------------------+------+-----------------+------------------+
| Name | CBOR | CBOR Type | Reference |
| | Key | | |
+-----------------------+------+-----------------+------------------+
| scope | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| get_pub_keys | TBD | array | Section 4.1.2.1, |
| | | | Section 4.1.3.1 |
| | | | |
| client_cred | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| cnonce | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| client_cred_verify | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| pub_keys_repos | TBD | text string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| control_path | TBD | text string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| gkty | TBD | int / text | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | string | |
| | | | |
| key | TBD | see "ACE | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | Groupcomm Key" | |
| | | Registry | |
| | | | |
| num | TBD | int | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| ace-groupcomm-profile | TBD | int | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| exp | TBD | int / float | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| pub_keys | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| peer_roles | TBD | array | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| group_policies | TBD | map | Section 4.1.2.1 |
| | | | |
| mgt_key_material | TBD | byte string | Section 4.1.2.1 |
+-----------------------+------+-----------------+------------------+
7. Security Considerations
When a Client receives a message from a sender for the first time, it
needs to have a mechanism in place to avoid replay, e.g.
Appendix B.2 of [RFC8613].
The KDC must renew the group keying material upon its expiration.
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The KDC should renew the keying material upon group membership
change, and should provide it to the current group members through
the rekeying scheme used in the group.
The KDC may enforce a rekeying policy that takes into account the
overall time required to rekey the group, as well as the expected
rate of changes in the group membership.
That is, the KDC may not rekey the group at every membership change,
for instance if members' joining and leaving occur frequently and
performing a group rekeying takes too long. Instead, the KDC may
rekey the group after a minum number of group members have joined or
left within a given time interval, or during predictable network
inactivity periods.
However, this would result in the KDC not constantly preserving
backward and forward security. In fact, newly joining group members
could be able to access the keying material used before their
joining, and thus could access past group communications. Also,
until the KDC performs a group rekeying, the newly leaving nodes
would still be able to access upcoming group communications that are
protected with the keying material that has not yet been updated.
7.1. Update of Keying Material
A group member can receive a message shortly after the group has been
rekeyed, and new keying material has been distributed by the KDC. In
the following two cases, this may result in misaligned keying
material between the group members.
In the first case, the sender protects a message using the old keying
material. However, the recipient receives the message after having
received the new keying material, hence not being able to correctly
process it. A possible way to ameliorate this issue is to preserve
the old, recent, keying material for a maximum amount of time defined
by the application. By doing so, the recipient can still try to
process the received message using the old retained keying material
as second attempt. Note that a former (compromised) group member can
take advantage of this by sending messages protected with the old
retained keying material. Therefore, a conservative application
policy should not admit the storage of old keying material.
In the second case, the sender protects a message using the new
keying material, but the recipient receives that request before
having received the new keying material. Therefore, the recipient
would not be able to correctly process the request and hence discards
it. If the recipient receives the new keying material shortly after
that and the sender endpoint uses CoAP retransmissions, the former
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will still be able to receive and correctly process the message. In
any case, the recipient should actively ask the KDC for an updated
keying material according to an application-defined policy, for
instance after a given number of unsuccessfully decrypted incoming
messages.
A node that has left the group should not expect any of its outgoing
messages to be successfully processed, if received after its leaving,
due to a possible group rekeying occurred before the message
reception.
7.2. Block-Wise Considerations
If the block-wise options [RFC7959] are used, and the keying material
is updated in the middle of a block-wise transfer, the sender of the
blocks just changes the keying material to the updated one and
continues the transfer. As long as both sides get the new keying
material, updating the keying material in the middle of a transfer
will not cause any issue. Otherwise, the sender will have to
transmit the message again, when receiving an error message from the
recipient.
Compared to a scenario where the transfer does not use block-wise,
depending on how fast the keying material is changed, the nodes might
consume a larger amount of the network bandwidth resending the blocks
again and again, which might be problematic.
8. IANA Considerations
This document has the following actions for IANA.
8.1. Media Type Registrations
This specification registers the 'application/ace-groupcomm+cbor'
media type for messages of the protocols defined in this document
following the ACE exchange and carrying parameters encoded in CBOR.
This registration follows the procedures specified in [RFC6838].
Type name: application
Subtype name: ace-groupcomm+cbor
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding considerations: Must be encoded as CBOR map containing the
protocol parameters defined in [this document].
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Security considerations: See Section 7 of this document.
Interoperability considerations: n/a
Published specification: [this document]
Applications that use this media type: The type is used by
authorization servers, clients and resource servers that support the
ACE groupcomm framework as specified in [this document].
Additional information:
Magic number(s): n/a
File extension(s): .ace-groupcomm
Macintosh file type code(s): n/a
Person & email address to contact for further information:
iesg@ietf.org [1]
Intended usage: COMMON
Restrictions on usage: None
Author: Francesca Palombini francesca.palombini@ericsson.com [2]
Change controller: IESG
8.2. CoAP Content-Formats Registry
This specification registers the following entry to the "CoAP
Content-Formats" registry, within the "CoRE Parameters" registry:
Media Type: application/ace-groupcomm+cbor
Encoding: -
ID: TBD
Reference: [this document]
8.3. ACE Authorization Server Request Creation Hints Registry
IANA is asked to register the following entries in the "ACE
Authorization Server Request Creation Hints" Registry defined in
Section 8.1 of [I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz].
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o Name: sign_info
o CBOR Key: TBD (range -256 to 255)
o Value Type: any
o Reference: [[This specification]]
o Name: pub_key_enc
o CBOR Key: TBD (range -256 to 255)
o Value Type: integer
o Reference: [[This specification]]
o Name: rsnonce
o CBOR Key: TBD (range -256 to 255)
o Value Type: byte string
o Reference: [[This specification]]
8.4. ACE Groupcomm Parameters Registry
This specification establishes the "ACE Groupcomm Parameters" IANA
Registry. The Registry has been created to use the "Expert Review
Required" registration procedure [RFC8126]. Expert review guidelines
are provided in Section 8.9.
The columns of this Registry are:
o Name: This is a descriptive name that enables easier reference to
the item. The name MUST be unique. It is not used in the
encoding.
o CBOR Key: This is the value used as CBOR key of the item. These
values MUST be unique. The value can be a positive integer, a
negative integer, or a string.
o CBOR Type: This contains the CBOR type of the item, or a pointer
to the registry that defines its type, when that depends on
another item.
o Reference: This contains a pointer to the public specification for
the item.
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This Registry has been initially populated by the values in
Section 6. The Reference column for all of these entries refers to
sections of this document.
8.5. ACE Groupcomm Key Registry
This specification establishes the "ACE Groupcomm Key" IANA Registry.
The Registry has been created to use the "Expert Review Required"
registration procedure [RFC8126]. Expert review guidelines are
provided in Section 8.9.
The columns of this Registry are:
o Name: This is a descriptive name that enables easier reference to
the item. The name MUST be unique. It is not used in the
encoding.
o Key Type Value: This is the value used to identify the keying
material. These values MUST be unique. The value can be a
positive integer, a negative integer, or a text string.
o Profile: This field may contain one or more descriptive strings of
application profiles to be used with this item. The values should
be taken from the Name column of the "ACE Groupcomm Profile"
Registry.
o Description: This field contains a brief description of the keying
material.
o References: This contains a pointer to the public specification
for the format of the keying material, if one exists.
This Registry has been initially populated by the values in Figure 5.
The specification column for all of these entries will be this
document.
8.6. ACE Groupcomm Profile Registry
This specification establishes the "ACE Groupcomm Profile" IANA
Registry. The Registry has been created to use the "Expert Review
Required" registration procedure [RFC8126]. Expert review guidelines
are provided in Section 8.9. It should be noted that, in addition to
the expert review, some portions of the Registry require a
specification, potentially a Standards Track RFC, be supplied as
well.
The columns of this Registry are:
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o Name: The name of the application profile, to be used as value of
the profile attribute.
o Description: Text giving an overview of the application profile
and the context it is developed for.
o CBOR Value: CBOR abbreviation for the name of this application
profile. Different ranges of values use different registration
policies [RFC8126]. Integer values from -256 to 255 are
designated as Standards Action. Integer values from -65536 to
-257 and from 256 to 65535 are designated as Specification
Required. Integer values greater than 65535 are designated as
Expert Review. Integer values less than -65536 are marked as
Private Use.
o Reference: This contains a pointer to the public specification of
the abbreviation for this application profile, if one exists.
8.7. ACE Groupcomm Policy Registry
This specification establishes the "ACE Groupcomm Policy" IANA
Registry. The Registry has been created to use the "Expert Review
Required" registration procedure [RFC8126]. Expert review guidelines
are provided in Section 8.9. It should be noted that, in addition to
the expert review, some portions of the Registry require a
specification, potentially a Standards Track RFC, be supplied as
well.
The columns of this Registry are:
o Name: The name of the group communication policy.
o CBOR label: The value to be used to identify this group
communication policy. Key map labels MUST be unique. The label
can be a positive integer, a negative integer or a string.
Integer values between 0 and 255 and strings of length 1 are
designated as Standards Track Document required. Integer values
from 256 to 65535 and strings of length 2 are designated as
Specification Required. Integer values of greater than 65535 and
strings of length greater than 2 are designated as expert review.
Integer values less than -65536 are marked as private use.
o CBOR type: the CBOR type used to encode the value of this group
communication policy.
o Description: This field contains a brief description for this
group communication policy.
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o Reference: This field contains a pointer to the public
specification providing the format of the group communication
policy, if one exists.
This registry will be initially populated by the values in Figure 6.
8.8. Sequence Number Synchronization Method Registry
This specification establishes the "Sequence Number Synchronization
Method" IANA Registry. The Registry has been created to use the
"Expert Review Required" registration procedure [RFC8126]. Expert
review guidelines are provided in Section 8.9. It should be noted
that, in addition to the expert review, some portions of the Registry
require a specification, potentially a Standards Track RFC, be
supplied as well.
The columns of this Registry are:
o Name: The name of the sequence number synchronization method.
o Value: The value to be used to identify this sequence number
synchronization method.
o Description: This field contains a brief description for this
sequence number synchronization method.
o Reference: This field contains a pointer to the public
specification describing the sequence number synchronization
method.
8.9. Expert Review Instructions
The IANA Registries established in this document are defined as
expert review. This section gives some general guidelines for what
the experts should be looking for, but they are being designated as
experts for a reason so they should be given substantial latitude.
Expert reviewers should take into consideration the following points:
o Point squatting should be discouraged. Reviewers are encouraged
to get sufficient information for registration requests to ensure
that the usage is not going to duplicate one that is already
registered and that the point is likely to be used in deployments.
The zones tagged as private use are intended for testing purposes
and closed environments, code points in other ranges should not be
assigned for testing.
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o Specifications are required for the standards track range of point
assignment. Specifications should exist for specification
required ranges, but early assignment before a specification is
available is considered to be permissible. Specifications are
needed for the first-come, first-serve range if they are expected
to be used outside of closed environments in an interoperable way.
When specifications are not provided, the description provided
needs to have sufficient information to identify what the point is
being used for.
o Experts should take into account the expected usage of fields when
approving point assignment. The fact that there is a range for
standards track documents does not mean that a standards track
document cannot have points assigned outside of that range. The
length of the encoded value should be weighed against how many
code points of that length are left, the size of device it will be
used on, and the number of code points left that encode to that
size.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-ace-cwt-proof-of-possession]
Jones, M., Seitz, L., Selander, G., Erdtman, S., and H.
Tschofenig, "Proof-of-Possession Key Semantics for CBOR
Web Tokens (CWTs)", draft-ietf-ace-cwt-proof-of-
possession-11 (work in progress), October 2019.
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz]
Seitz, L., Selander, G., Wahlstroem, E., Erdtman, S., and
H. Tschofenig, "Authentication and Authorization for
Constrained Environments (ACE) using the OAuth 2.0
Framework (ACE-OAuth)", draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz-33
(work in progress), February 2020.
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-params]
Seitz, L., "Additional OAuth Parameters for Authorization
in Constrained Environments (ACE)", draft-ietf-ace-oauth-
params-12 (work in progress), February 2020.
[I-D.ietf-core-oscore-groupcomm]
Tiloca, M., Selander, G., Palombini, F., and J. Park,
"Group OSCORE - Secure Group Communication for CoAP",
draft-ietf-core-oscore-groupcomm-07 (work in progress),
March 2020.
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[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/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC6838] Freed, N., Klensin, J., and T. Hansen, "Media Type
Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13,
RFC 6838, DOI 10.17487/RFC6838, January 2013,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6838>.
[RFC7049] Bormann, C. and P. Hoffman, "Concise Binary Object
Representation (CBOR)", RFC 7049, DOI 10.17487/RFC7049,
October 2013, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7049>.
[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/info/rfc8126>.
[RFC8152] Schaad, J., "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)",
RFC 8152, DOI 10.17487/RFC8152, July 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8152>.
[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/info/rfc8174>.
9.2. Informative References
[I-D.dijk-core-groupcomm-bis]
Dijk, E., Wang, C., and M. Tiloca, "Group Communication
for the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", draft-
dijk-core-groupcomm-bis-03 (work in progress), March
2020.
[I-D.ietf-ace-dtls-authorize]
Gerdes, S., Bergmann, O., Bormann, C., Selander, G., and
L. Seitz, "Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
Profile for Authentication and Authorization for
Constrained Environments (ACE)", draft-ietf-ace-dtls-
authorize-09 (work in progress), December 2019.
[I-D.ietf-ace-mqtt-tls-profile]
Sengul, C., Kirby, A., and P. Fremantle, "MQTT-TLS profile
of ACE", draft-ietf-ace-mqtt-tls-profile-04 (work in
progress), March 2020.
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[I-D.ietf-ace-oscore-profile]
Palombini, F., Seitz, L., Selander, G., and M. Gunnarsson,
"OSCORE profile of the Authentication and Authorization
for Constrained Environments Framework", draft-ietf-ace-
oscore-profile-10 (work in progress), March 2020.
[I-D.ietf-core-coap-pubsub]
Koster, M., Keranen, A., and J. Jimenez, "Publish-
Subscribe Broker for the Constrained Application Protocol
(CoAP)", draft-ietf-core-coap-pubsub-09 (work in
progress), September 2019.
[RFC2093] Harney, H. and C. Muckenhirn, "Group Key Management
Protocol (GKMP) Specification", RFC 2093,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2093, July 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2093>.
[RFC2094] Harney, H. and C. Muckenhirn, "Group Key Management
Protocol (GKMP) Architecture", RFC 2094,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2094, July 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2094>.
[RFC2627] Wallner, D., Harder, E., and R. Agee, "Key Management for
Multicast: Issues and Architectures", RFC 2627,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2627, June 1999,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2627>.
[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/info/rfc6347>.
[RFC7519] Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, "JSON Web Token
(JWT)", RFC 7519, DOI 10.17487/RFC7519, May 2015,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7519>.
[RFC7959] Bormann, C. and Z. Shelby, Ed., "Block-Wise Transfers in
the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7959,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7959, August 2016,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7959>.
[RFC8259] Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8259>.
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[RFC8613] Selander, G., Mattsson, J., Palombini, F., and L. Seitz,
"Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments
(OSCORE)", RFC 8613, DOI 10.17487/RFC8613, July 2019,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8613>.
9.3. URIs
[1] mailto:iesg@ietf.org
[2] mailto:francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Appendix A. Requirements on Application Profiles
This section lists the requirements on application profiles of this
specification,for the convenience of application profile designers.
o REQ1: Specify the encoding and value of the identifier of group or
topic, for scope entries of 'scope' (see Section 3.1).
o REQ2: Specify the encoding and value of roles, for scope entries
of 'scope' (see Section 3.1).
o REQ3: If used, specify the acceptable values for 'sign_alg' (see
Section 3.3).
o REQ4: If used, specify the acceptable values for 'sign_parameters'
(see Section 3.3).
o REQ5: If used, specify the acceptable values for
'sign_key_parameters' (see Section 3.3).
o REQ6: If used, specify the acceptable values for 'pub_key_enc'
(see Section 3.3).
o REQ7: Specify the exact format of the 'key' value (see
Section 4.1.2.1).
o REQ8: Specify the acceptable values of 'gkty' (see
Section 4.1.2.1).
o REQ9: Specify the format of the identifiers of group members (see
Section 4.1.2.1).
o REQ10: Specify the communication protocol the members of the group
must use (e.g., multicast CoAP).
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o REQ11: Specify the security protocol the group members must use to
protect their communication (e.g., group OSCORE). This must
provide encryption, integrity and replay protection.
o REQ12: Specify and register the application profile identifier
(see Section 4.1.2.1).
o REQ13: Specify policies at the KDC to handle ids that are not
included in get_pub_keys (see Section 4.1.3.1).
o REQ14: If used, specify the format and content of 'group_policies'
and its entries (see Section 4.1.2.1).
o REQ15: Specify the format of newly-generated individual keying
material for group members, or of the information to derive it,
and corresponding CBOR label (see Section 4.1.6.2).
o REQ16: Specify how the communication is secured between Client and
KDC. Optionally, specify tranport profile of ACE
[I-D.ietf-ace-oauth-authz] to use between Client and KDC (see
Section 4.2.
o REQ17: Specify how the nonce N_S is generated, if the token is not
being posted (e.g. if it is used directly to validate TLS
instead).
o REQ18: Specify if 'mgt_key_material' used, and if yes specify its
format and content (see Section 4.1.2.1). If the usage of
'mgt_key_material' is indicated and its format defined for a
specific key management scheme, that format must explicitly
indicate the key management scheme itself. If a new rekeying
scheme is defined to be used for an existing 'mgt_key_material' in
an existing profile, then that profile will have to be updated
accordingly, especially with respect to the usage of
'mgt_key_material' related format and content.
o OPT1: Optionally, specify the encoding of public keys, of
'client_cred', and of 'pub_keys' if COSE_Keys are not used (see
Section 4.1.2.1).
o OPT2: Optionally, specify the negotiation of parameter values for
signature algorithm and signature keys, if 'sign_info' and
'pub_key_enc' are not used (see Section 3.3).
o OPT3: Optionally, specify the encoding of 'pub_keys_repos' if the
default is not used (see Section 4.1.2.1).
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o OPT4: Optionally, specify policies that instruct clients to retain
messages and for how long, if they are unsuccessfully decrypted
(see Section 4.3). This makes it possible to decrypt such
messages after getting updated keying material.
o OPT5: Optionally, specify the behavior of the handler in case of
failure to retrieve a public key for the specific node (see
Section 4.1.2.1).
o OPT6: Optionally, specify possible or required payload formats for
specific error cases.
o OPT7: Optionally, specify CBOR values to use for abbreviating
identifiers of roles in the group or topic (see Section 3.1).
o OPT8: Optionally, specify policies for the KDC to perform group
rekeying after receiving a Key Renewal Request (see Section 4.4).
Appendix B. Document Updates
RFC EDITOR: PLEASE REMOVE THIS SECTION.
B.1. Version -04 to -05
o Updated uppercase/lowercase URI segments for KDC resources.
o Supporting single Access Token for multiple groups/topics.
o Added 'control_path' parameter in the Joining Request.
o Added 'peer_roles' parameter to support legal requesters/
responders.
o Clarification on stopping using owned keying material.
o Clarification on different reasons for processing failures,
related policies, and requirement OPT4.
o Added a KDC sub-resource for group members to upload a new public
key.
o Possible group rekeying following an individual Key Renewal
Request.
o Clarified meaning of requirement REQ3; added requirement OPT8.
o Editorial improvements.
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B.2. Version -03 to -04
o Revised RESTful interface, as to methods and parameters.
o Extended processing of joining request, as to check/retrieval of
public keys.
o Revised and extended profile requirements.
o Clarified specific usage of parameters related to signature
algorithms/keys.
o Included general content previously in draft-ietf-ace-key-
groupcomm-oscore
o Registration of media type and content format application/ace-
group+cbor
o Editorial improvements.
B.3. Version -02 to -03
o Exchange of information on the countersignature algorithm and
related parameters, during the Token POST (Section 3.3).
o Restructured KDC interface, with new possible operations
(Section 4).
o Client PoP signature for the Joining Request upon joining
(Section 4.1.2.1).
o Revised text on group member removal (Section 5).
o Added more profile requirements (Appendix A).
B.4. Version -01 to -02
o Editorial fixes.
o Distinction between transport profile and application profile
(Section 1.1).
o New parameters 'sign_info' and 'pub_key_enc' to negotiate
parameter values for signature algorithm and signature keys
(Section 3.3).
o New parameter 'type' to distinguish different Key Distribution
Request messages (Section 4.1).
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o New parameter 'client_cred_verify' in the Key Distribution Request
to convey a Client signature (Section 4.1).
o Encoding of 'pub_keys_repos' (Section 4.1).
o Encoding of 'mgt_key_material' (Section 4.1).
o Improved description on retrieval of new or updated keying
material (Section 6).
o Encoding of 'get_pub_keys' in Public Key Request (Section 7.1).
o Extended security considerations (Sections 10.1 and 10.2).
o New "ACE Public Key Encoding" IANA Registry (Section 11.2).
o New "ACE Groupcomm Parameters" IANA Registry (Section 11.3),
populated with the entries in Section 8.
o New "Ace Groupcomm Request Type" IANA Registry (Section 11.4),
populated with the values in Section 9.
o New "ACE Groupcomm Policy" IANA Registry (Section 11.7) populated
with two entries "Sequence Number Synchronization Method" and "Key
Update Check Interval" (Section 4.2).
o Improved list of requirements for application profiles
(Appendix A).
B.5. Version -00 to -01
o Changed name of 'req_aud' to 'audience' in the Authorization
Request (Section 3.1).
o Defined error handling on the KDC (Sections 4.2 and 6.2).
o Updated format of the Key Distribution Response as a whole
(Section 4.2).
o Generalized format of 'pub_keys' in the Key Distribution Response
(Section 4.2).
o Defined format for the message to request leaving the group
(Section 5.2).
o Renewal of individual keying material and methods for group
rekeying initiated by the KDC (Section 6).
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o CBOR type for node identifiers in 'get_pub_keys' (Section 7.1).
o Added section on parameter identifiers and their CBOR keys
(Section 8).
o Added request types for requests to a Join Response (Section 9).
o Extended security considerations (Section 10).
o New IANA registries "ACE Groupcomm Key Registry", "ACE Groupcomm
Profile Registry", "ACE Groupcomm Policy Registry" and "Sequence
Number Synchronization Method Registry" (Section 11).
o Added appendix about requirements for application profiles of ACE
on group communication (Appendix A).
Acknowledgments
The following individuals were helpful in shaping this document:
Carsten Bormann, Rikard Hoeglund, Ben Kaduk, John Mattsson, Daniel
Migault, Jim Schaad, Ludwig Seitz, Goeran Selander and Peter van der
Stok.
The work on this document has been partly supported by VINNOVA and
the Celtic-Next project CRITISEC; and by the EIT-Digital High Impact
Initiative ACTIVE.
Authors' Addresses
Francesca Palombini
Ericsson AB
Torshamnsgatan 23
Kista SE-16440 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: francesca.palombini@ericsson.com
Marco Tiloca
RISE AB
Isafjordsgatan 22
Kista SE-16440 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: marco.tiloca@ri.se
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