HTTP                                                           M. Bishop
Internet-Draft                                                    Akamai
Intended status: Standards Track                             N. Sullivan
Expires: November 29, 2018                                    Cloudflare
                                                              M. Thomson
                                                                 Mozilla
                                                            May 28, 2018


             Secondary Certificate Authentication in HTTP/2
              draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs-01

Abstract

   A use of TLS Exported Authenticators is described which enables
   HTTP/2 clients and servers to offer additional certificate-based
   credentials after the connection is established.  The means by which
   these credentials are used with requests is defined.

Note to Readers

   Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group
   mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/ [1].

   Working Group information can be found at http://httpwg.github.io/
   [2]; source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
   https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/labels/secondary-certs [3].

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Server Certificate Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.2.  Client Certificate Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       1.2.1.  HTTP/1.1 using TLS 1.2 and previous . . . . . . . . .   5
       1.2.2.  HTTP/1.1 using TLS 1.3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       1.2.3.  HTTP/2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     1.3.  HTTP-Layer Certificate Authentication . . . . . . . . . .   7
     1.4.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   2.  Discovering Additional Certificates at the HTTP/2 Layer . . .   8
     2.1.  Indicating support for HTTP-layer certificate
           authentication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     2.2.  Making certificates or requests available . . . . . . . .   9
     2.3.  Requiring certificate authentication  . . . . . . . . . .   9
       2.3.1.  Requiring additional server certificates  . . . . . .   9
   3.  Certificates Frames for HTTP/2  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.1.  The CERTIFICATE_NEEDED frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     3.2.  The USE_CERTIFICATE Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     3.3.  The CERTIFICATE_REQUEST Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       3.3.1.  Exported Authenticator Request Characteristics  . . .  15
     3.4.  The CERTIFICATE Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       3.4.1.  Exported Authenticator Characteristics  . . . . . . .  16
   4.  Indicating failures during HTTP-Layer Certificate
       Authentication  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.1.  Impersonation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.2.  Fingerprinting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.3.  Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
     5.4.  Confusion About State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     6.1.  HTTP/2 SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH Setting  . . . . . . . . .  19
     6.2.  New HTTP/2 Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19



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     6.3.  New HTTP/2 Error Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     7.3.  URIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
   Appendix A.  Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     A.1.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs-00:  . . .  21
     A.2.  Since draft-bishop-httpbis-http2-additional-certs-05: . .  22
   Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22

1.  Introduction

   HTTP clients need to know that the content they receive on a
   connection comes from the origin that they intended to retrieve in
   from.  The traditional form of server authentication in HTTP has been
   in the form of a single X.509 certificate provided during the TLS
   RFC5246 [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13] handshake.

   Many existing HTTP [RFC7230] servers also have authentication
   requirements for the resources they serve.  Of the bountiful
   authentication options available for authenticating HTTP requests,
   client certificates present a unique challenge for resource-specific
   authentication requirements because of the interaction with the
   underlying TLS layer.

   TLS 1.2 [RFC5246] supports one server and one client certificate on a
   connection.  These certificates may contain multiple identities, but
   only one certificate may be provided.

   Many HTTP servers host content from several origins.  HTTP/2 permits
   clients to reuse an existing HTTP connection to a server provided
   that the secondary origin is also in the certificate provided during
   the TLS handshake.  In many cases, servers choose to maintain
   separate certificates for different origins but still desire the
   benefits of a shared HTTP connection.

1.1.  Server Certificate Authentication

   Section 9.1.1 of [RFC7540] describes how connections may be used to
   make requests from multiple origins as long as the server is
   authoritative for both.  A server is considered authoritative for an
   origin if DNS resolves the origin to the IP address of the server and
   (for TLS) if the certificate presented by the server contains the
   origin in the Subject Alternative Names field.

   [RFC7838] enables a step of abstraction from the DNS resolution.  If
   both hosts have provided an Alternative Service at hostnames which



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   resolve to the IP address of the server, they are considered
   authoritative just as if DNS resolved the origin itself to that
   address.  However, the server's one TLS certificate is still required
   to contain the name of each origin in question.

   [RFC8336] relaxes the requirement to perform the DNS lookup if
   already connected to a server with an appropriate certificate which
   claims support for a particular origin.

   Servers which host many origins often would prefer to have separate
   certificates for some sets of origins.  This may be for ease of
   certificate management (the ability to separately revoke or renew
   them), due to different sources of certificates (a CDN acting on
   behalf of multiple origins), or other factors which might drive this
   administrative decision.  Clients connecting to such origins cannot
   currently reuse connections, even if both client and server would
   prefer to do so.

   Because the TLS SNI extension is exchanged in the clear, clients
   might also prefer to retrieve certificates inside the encrypted
   context.  When this information is sensitive, it might be
   advantageous to request a general-purpose certificate or anonymous
   ciphersuite at the TLS layer, while acquiring the "real" certificate
   in HTTP after the connection is established.

1.2.  Client Certificate Authentication

   For servers that wish to use client certificates to authenticate
   users, they might request client authentication during or immediately
   after the TLS handshake.  However, if not all users or resources need
   certificate-based authentication, a request for a certificate has the
   unfortunate consequence of triggering the client to seek a
   certificate, possibly requiring user interaction, network traffic, or
   other time-consuming activities.  During this time, the connection is
   stalled in many implementations.  Such a request can result in a poor
   experience, particularly when sent to a client that does not expect
   the request.

   The TLS 1.3 CertificateRequest can be used by servers to give clients
   hints about which certificate to offer.  Servers that rely on
   certificate-based authentication might request different certificates
   for different resources.  Such a server cannot use contextual
   information about the resource to construct an appropriate TLS
   CertificateRequest message during the initial handshake.

   Consequently, client certificates are requested at connection
   establishment time only in cases where all clients are expected or
   required to have a single certificate that is used for all resources.



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   Many other uses for client certificates are reactive, that is,
   certificates are requested in response to the client making a
   request.

1.2.1.  HTTP/1.1 using TLS 1.2 and previous

   In HTTP/1.1, a server that relies on client authentication for a
   subset of users or resources does not request a certificate when the
   connection is established.  Instead, it only requests a client
   certificate when a request is made to a resource that requires a
   certificate.  TLS 1.2 [RFC5246] accomodates this by permitting the
   server to request a new TLS handshake, in which the server will
   request the client's certificate.

   Figure 1 shows the server initiating a TLS-layer renegotiation in
   response to receiving an HTTP/1.1 request to a protected resource.

   Client                                      Server
      -- (HTTP) GET /protected -------------------> *1
      <---------------------- (TLS) HelloRequest -- *2
      -- (TLS) ClientHello ----------------------->
      <------------------ (TLS) ServerHello, ... --
      <---------------- (TLS) CertificateRequest -- *3
      -- (TLS) ..., Certificate ------------------> *4
      -- (TLS) Finished -------------------------->
      <-------------------------- (TLS) Finished --
      <--------------------------- (HTTP) 200 OK -- *5

    Figure 1: HTTP/1.1 Reactive Certificate Authentication with TLS 1.2

   In this example, the server receives a request for a protected
   resource (at *1 on Figure 1).  Upon performing an authorization
   check, the server determines that the request requires authentication
   using a client certificate and that no such certificate has been
   provided.

   The server initiates TLS renegotiation by sending a TLS HelloRequest
   (at *2).  The client then initiates a TLS handshake.  Note that some
   TLS messages are elided from the figure for the sake of brevity.

   The critical messages for this example are the server requesting a
   certificate with a TLS CertificateRequest (*3); this request might
   use information about the request or resource.  The client then
   provides a certificate and proof of possession of the private key in
   Certificate and CertificateVerify messages (*4).






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   When the handshake completes, the server performs any authorization
   checks a second time.  With the client certificate available, it then
   authorizes the request and provides a response (*5).

1.2.2.  HTTP/1.1 using TLS 1.3

   TLS 1.3 [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13] introduces a new client authentication
   mechanism that allows for clients to authenticate after the handshake
   has been completed.  For the purposes of authenticating an HTTP
   request, this is functionally equivalent to renegotiation.  Figure 2
   shows the simpler exchange this enables.

   Client                                      Server
      -- (HTTP) GET /protected ------------------->
      <---------------- (TLS) CertificateRequest --
      -- (TLS) Certificate, CertificateVerify,
                  Finished ----------------------->
      <--------------------------- (HTTP) 200 OK --

    Figure 2: HTTP/1.1 Reactive Certificate Authentication with TLS 1.3

   TLS 1.3 does not support renegotiation, instead supporting direct
   client authentication.  In contrast to the TLS 1.2 example, in TLS
   1.3, a server can simply request a certificate.

1.2.3.  HTTP/2

   An important part of the HTTP/1.1 exchange is that the client is able
   to easily identify the request that caused the TLS renegotiation.
   The client is able to assume that the next unanswered request on the
   connection is responsible.  The HTTP stack in the client is then able
   to direct the certificate request to the application or component
   that initiated that request.  This ensures that the application has
   the right contextual information for processing the request.

   In HTTP/2, a client can have multiple outstanding requests.  Without
   some sort of correlation information, a client is unable to identify
   which request caused the server to request a certificate.

   Thus, the minimum necessary mechanism to support reactive certificate
   authentication in HTTP/2 is an identifier that can be use to
   correlate an HTTP request with a request for a certificate.  Since
   streams are used for individual requests, correlation with a stream
   is sufficient.

   [RFC7540] prohibits renegotiation after any application data has been
   sent.  This completely blocks reactive certificate authentication in
   HTTP/2 using TLS 1.2.  If this restriction were relaxed by an



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   extension or update to HTTP/2, such an identifier could be added to
   TLS 1.2 by means of an extension to TLS.  Unfortunately, many TLS 1.2
   implementations do not permit application data to continue during a
   renegotiation.  This is problematic for a multiplexed protocol like
   HTTP/2.

1.3.  HTTP-Layer Certificate Authentication

   This draft defines HTTP/2 frames to carry the relevant certificate
   messages, enabling certificate-based authentication of both clients
   and servers independent of TLS version.  This mechanism can be
   implemented at the HTTP layer without breaking the existing interface
   between HTTP and applications above it.

   This could be done in a naive manner by replicating the TLS messages
   as HTTP/2 frames on each stream.  However, this would create needless
   redundancy between streams and require frequent expensive signing
   operations.  Instead, TLS Exported Authenticators
   [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator] are exchanged on stream zero
   and other frames incorporate them to particular requests by reference
   as needed.

   TLS Exported Authenticators are structured messages that can be
   exported by either party of a TLS connection and validated by the
   other party.  Given an established TLS connection, a request can be
   constructed which describes the desired certificate and an
   authenticator message can be constructed proving possession of a
   certificate and a corresponding private key.  Both requests and
   authenticators can be generated by either the client or the server.
   Exported Authenticators use the message structures from sections
   4.3.2 and 4.4 of [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13], but different parameters.

   Each Authenticator is computed using a Handshake Context and Finished
   MAC Key derived from the TLS session.  The Handshake Context is
   identical for both parties of the TLS connection, while the Finished
   MAC Key is dependent on whether the Authenticator is created by the
   client or the server.

   Successfully verified Authenticators result in certificate chains,
   with verified possession of the corresponding private key, which can
   be supplied into a collection of available certificates.  Likewise,
   descriptions of desired certificates can be supplied into these
   collections.

   Section 2 describes how the feature is employed, defining means to
   detect support in peers (Section 2.1), make certificates and requests
   available (Section 2.2), and indicate when streams are blocked
   waiting on an appropriate certificate (Section 2.3).  Section 3



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   defines the required frame types, which parallel the TLS 1.3 message
   exchange.  Finally, Section 4 defines new error types which can be
   used to notify peers when the exchange has not been successful.

1.4.  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.

2.  Discovering Additional Certificates at the HTTP/2 Layer

   A certificate chain with proof of possession of the private key
   corresponding to the end-entity certificate is sent as a sequence of
   "CERTIFICATE" frames (see Section 3.4) on stream zero.  Once the
   holder of a certificate has sent the chain and proof, this
   certificate chain is cached by the recipient and available for future
   use.  Clients can proactively indicate the certificate they intend to
   use on each request using an unsolicited "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame, if
   desired.  The previously-supplied certificates are available for
   reference without having to resend them.

   Otherwise, the server uses a "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame to describe
   a class of certificates on stream zero, then uses
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames to associate these with individual
   requests.  The client responds with a "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame
   indicating the certificate which should be used to satisfy the
   request.

   Data sent by each peer is correlated by the ID given in each frame.
   This ID is unrelated to values used by the other peer, even if each
   uses the same ID in certain cases.  "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames indicate
   whether they are sent proactively or are in response to a
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame.

2.1.  Indicating support for HTTP-layer certificate authentication

   Clients and servers that will accept requests for HTTP-layer
   certificate authentication indicate this using the HTTP/2
   "SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH" (0xSETTING-TBD) setting.

   The initial value for the "SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH" setting is 0,
   indicating that the peer does not support HTTP-layer certificate
   authentication.  If a peer does support HTTP-layer certificate
   authentication, the value is 1.




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2.2.  Making certificates or requests available

   When both peers have advertised support for HTTP-layer certificates
   as in Section 2.1, either party can supply additional certificates
   into the connection at any time.  This means that clients or servers
   which predict a certificate will be required could supply the
   certificate before being asked.  These certificates are available for
   reference by future "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames.

   Certificates supplied by servers can be considered by clients without
   further action by the server.  A server SHOULD NOT send certificates
   which do not cover origins which it is prepared to service on the
   current connection, but MAY use the ORIGIN frame [RFC8336] to
   indicate that not all covered origins will be served.

   Client                                      Server
      <------------------ (stream 0) CERTIFICATE --
      ...
      -- (stream N) GET /from-new-origin --------->
      <----------------------- (stream N) 200 OK --


                  Figure 3: Proactive Server Certificate

   Client                                      Server
      -- (stream 0) CERTIFICATE ------------------>
      -- (stream 0) USE_CERTIFICATE (S=1) -------->
      -- (stream 0) USE_CERTIFICATE (S=3) -------->
      -- (streams 1,3) GET /protected ------------>
      <-------------------- (streams 1,3) 200 OK --


                  Figure 4: Proactive Client Certificate

   Likewise, either party can supply a "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" that
   outlines parameters of a certificate they might request in the
   future.  Upon receipt of a "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST", servers SHOULD
   provide a corresponding certificate.  Clients MAY wait for a
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame to assist in associating the certificate
   request with a particular HTTP transition.

2.3.  Requiring certificate authentication

2.3.1.  Requiring additional server certificates

   As defined in [RFC7540], when a client finds that a https:// origin
   (or Alternative Service [RFC7838]) to which it needs to make a
   request has the same IP address as a server to which it is already



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   connected, it MAY check whether the TLS certificate provided contains
   the new origin as well, and if so, reuse the connection.

   If the TLS certificate does not contain the new origin, but the
   server has claimed support for that origin (with an ORIGIN frame, see
   [RFC8336]) and advertised support for HTTP-layer certificates (see
   Section 2.1), the client MAY send a "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame
   describing the desired origin.  Servers SHOULD provide a
   corresponding certificate if one is available.

   If the server does not have the desired certificate, it MUST [see
   issue #564].  In this case, or if the server has not advertised
   support for HTTP-layer certificates, the client MUST NOT send any
   requests for resources in that origin on the current connection.

   Client                                      Server
      <----------------------- (stream 0) ORIGIN --
      -- (stream 0) CERTIFICATE_REQUEST ---------->
      <------------------ (stream 0) CERTIFICATE --
      -- (stream N) GET /from-new-origin --------->
      <----------------------- (stream N) 200 OK --

                  Figure 5: Client-Requested Certificate

   Likewise, the server sends a "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame for each
   stream where certificate authentication is required.  The client
   answers with a "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame indicating the certificate to
   use on that stream.  If the request parameters or the responding
   certificate are not already available, they will need to be sent as
   described in Section 2.2 as part of this exchange.

   Client                                      Server
      <---------- (stream 0) CERTIFICATE_REQUEST --
      ...
      -- (stream N) GET /protected --------------->
      <----- (stream 0) CERTIFICATE_NEEDED (S=N) --
      -- (stream 0) CERTIFICATE ------------------>
      -- (stream 0) USE_CERTIFICATE (S=N) -------->
      <----------------------- (stream N) 200 OK --

               Figure 6: Reactive Certificate Authentication

   If a client receives a "PUSH_PROMISE" referencing an origin for which
   it has not yet received the server's certificate, this is a fatal
   connection error (see section 8.2 of [RFC7540]).  To avoid this,
   servers MUST supply the associated certificates before pushing
   resources from a different origin.




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3.  Certificates Frames for HTTP/2

   The "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" and "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames are
   correlated by their "Request-ID" field.  Subsequent
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames with the same "Request-ID" value MAY be
   sent for other streams where the sender is expecting a certificate
   with the same parameters.

   The "CERTIFICATE", and "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames are correlated by
   their "Cert-ID" field.  Subsequent "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames with the
   same "Cert-ID" MAY be sent in response to other "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED"
   frames and refer to the same certificate.

   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" and "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames are correlated by
   the Stream ID they reference.  Unsolicited "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames
   are not responses to "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames; otherwise, each
   "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame for a stream is considered to respond to a
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame for the same stream in sequence.

      +---------+           +---------+
      | REQUEST |           |   CERT  |
      +---------+           +---------+
           |                     |
           | Request-ID          | Cert-ID
           |                     |
           v                     v
      +---------+ Stream ID +---------+
      | NEEDED  |---------->|   USE   |
      +---------+           +---------+

                        Figure 7: Frame correlation

   "Request-ID" and "Cert-ID" are independent and sender-local.  The use
   of the same value by the other peer or in the other context does not
   imply any correlation between these frames.  These values MUST be
   unique per sender for each space over the lifetime of the connection.

3.1.  The CERTIFICATE_NEEDED frame

   The "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame (0xFRAME-TBD1) is sent on stream zero
   to indicate that the HTTP request on the indicated stream is blocked
   pending certificate authentication.  The frame includes stream ID and
   a request identifier which can be used to correlate the stream with a
   previous "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame sent on stream zero.  The
   "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" describes the certificate the sender requires
   to make progress on the stream in question.





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     0                   1                   2                   3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +---------------------------------------------------------------+
    |R|                        Stream ID (31)                       |
    +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |        Request-ID (16)        |
    +-------------------------------+

                Figure 8: CERTIFICATE_NEEDED frame payload

   The "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame contains 6 octets.  The first four
   octets indicate the Stream ID of the affected stream.  The following
   two octets are the authentication request identifier, "Request-ID".
   A peer that receives a "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" of any other length MUST
   treat this as a stream error of type "PROTOCOL_ERROR".  Frames with
   identical request identifiers refer to the same
   "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST".

   A server MAY send multiple "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames for the same
   stream.  If a server requires that a client provide multiple
   certificates before authorizing a single request, each required
   certificate MUST be indicated with a separate "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED"
   frame, each of which MUST have a different request identifier
   (referencing different "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frames describing each
   required certificate).  To reduce the risk of client confusion,
   servers SHOULD NOT have multiple outstanding "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED"
   frames for the same stream at any given time.

   Clients MUST NOT send multiple "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames for the
   same stream.

   The "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame MUST NOT be sent to a peer which has
   not advertised support for HTTP-layer certificate authentication.

   The "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame MUST NOT reference a stream in the
   "half-closed (local)" or "closed" states [RFC7540].  A client that
   receives a "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame for a stream which is not in a
   valid state SHOULD treat this as a stream error of type
   "PROTOCOL_ERROR".

3.2.  The USE_CERTIFICATE Frame

   The "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame (0xFRAME-TBD4) is sent on stream zero to
   indicate which certificate is being used on a particular request
   stream.

   The "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame defines a single flag:




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   UNSOLICITED (0x01):  Indicates that no "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame has
      yet been received for this stream.

   The payload of the "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame is as follows:

     0                   1                   2                   3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +---------------------------------------------------------------+
    |R|                        Stream ID (31)                       |
    +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |         [Cert-ID (16)]        |
    +-------------------------------+

                  Figure 9: USE_CERTIFICATE frame payload

   The first four octets indicate the Stream ID of the affected stream.
   The following two octets, if present, contain the two-octet "Cert-ID"
   of the certificate the sender wishes to use.  This MUST be the ID of
   a certificate for which proof of possession has been presented in a
   "CERTIFICATE" frame.  Recipients of a "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame of any
   other length MUST treat this as a stream error of type
   "PROTOCOL_ERROR".  Frames with identical certificate identifiers
   refer to the same certificate chain.

   A "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame which omits the Cert-ID refers to the
   certificate provided at the TLS layer, if any.  If no certificate was
   provided at the TLS layer, the stream should be processed with no
   authentication, likely returning an authentication-related error at
   the HTTP level (e.g. 403) for servers or routing the request to a new
   connection for clients.

   The "UNSOLICITED" flag MAY be set by clients on the first
   "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame referring to a given stream.  This permits a
   client to proactively indicate which certificate should be used when
   processing a new request.  When such an unsolicited indication refers
   to a request that has not yet been received, servers SHOULD cache the
   indication briefly in anticipation of the request.

   Receipt of more than one unsolicited "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames or an
   unsolicited "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame which is not the first in
   reference to a given stream MUST be treated as a stream error of type
   "CERTIFICATE_OVERUSED".

   Each "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame which is not marked as unsolicited is
   considered to respond in order to the "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frames for
   the same stream.  If a "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame is received for which
   a "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" frame has not been sent, this MUST be treated
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   Receipt of a "USE_CERTIFICATE" frame with an unknown "Cert-ID" MUST
   result in a stream error of type "PROTOCOL_ERROR".

   The referenced certificate chain needs to conform to the requirements
   expressed in the "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" to the best of the sender's
   ability, or the recipient is likely to reject it as unsuitable
   despite properly validating the authenticator.  If the recipient
   considers the certificate unsuitable, it MAY at its discretion either
   return an error at the HTTP semantic layer, or respond with a stream
   error [RFC7540] on any stream where the certificate is used.
   Section 4 defines certificate-related error codes which might be
   applicable.

3.3.  The CERTIFICATE_REQUEST Frame

   The "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame (id=0xFRAME-TBD2) provides a exported
   authenticator request message from the TLS layer that specifies a
   desired certificate.  This describes the certificate the sender
   wishes to have presented.

   The "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame SHOULD NOT be sent to a peer which
   has not advertised support for HTTP-layer certificate authentication.

   The "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame MUST be sent on stream zero.  A
   "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame received on any other stream MUST be
   rejected with a stream error of type "PROTOCOL_ERROR".

     0                   1                   2                   3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |        Request-ID (16)        |          Request (?)        ...
    +---------------------------------------------------------------+

               Figure 10: CERTIFICATE_REQUEST frame payload

   The frame contains the following fields:

   Request-ID:  "Request-ID" is a 16-bit opaque identifier used to
      correlate subsequent certificate-related frames with this request.
      The identifier MUST be unique in the session for the sender.

   Request:  An exported authenticator request, generated using the
      "request" API described in [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator].
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3.3.1.  Exported Authenticator Request Characteristics

   The Exported Authenticator "request" API defined in
   [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator] takes as input a set of desired
   certificate characteristics and a "certificate_request_context",
   which needs to be unpredictable.  When generating exported
   authenticators for use with this extension, the
   "certificate_request_context" MUST contain both the two-octet
   Request-ID as well as at least 96 bits of additional entropy.

   The TLS library on the authenticating peer will provide mechanisms to
   select an appropriate certificate to respond to the transported
   request.  TLS libraries on servers MUST be able to recognize the
   "server_name" extension ([RFC6066]) at a minimum.  Clients MUST
   always specify the desired origin using this extension, though other
   extensions MAY also be included.

3.4.  The CERTIFICATE Frame

   The "CERTIFICATE" frame (id=0xFRAME-TBD3) provides a exported
   authenticator message from the TLS layer that provides a chain of
   certificates, associated extensions and proves possession of the
   private key corresponding to the end-entity certificate.

   The "CERTIFICATE" frame defines two flags:

   TO_BE_CONTINUED (0x01):  Indicates that the exported authenticator
      spans more than one frame.

     0                   1                   2                   3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
    |          Cert-ID (16)         |   Authenticator Fragment (*)...
    +---------------------------------------------------------------+

                   Figure 11: CERTIFICATE frame payload

   The "Exported Authenticator Fragment" field contains a portion of the
   opaque data returned from the TLS connection exported authenticator
   "authenticate" API.  See Section 3.4.1 for more details on the input
   to this API.

   This opaque data is transported in zero or more "CERTIFICATE" frames
   with the "TO_BE_CONTINUED" flag set, followed by one "CERTIFICATE"
   frame with the "TO_BE_CONTINUED" flag unset.  Each of these frames
   contains the same "Cert-ID" field, permitting them to be associated
   with each other.  Receipt of any "CERTIFICATE" frame with the same
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   "TO_BE_CONTINUED" unset MUST be treated as a connection error of type
   "PROTOCOL_ERROR".

   Upon receiving a complete series of "CERTIFICATE" frames, the
   receiver may validate the Exported Authenticator value by using the
   exported authenticator API.  This returns either an error indicating
   that the message was invalid, or the certificate chain and extensions
   used to create the message.

   The "CERTIFICATE" frame MUST be sent on stream zero.  A "CERTIFICATE"
   frame received on any other stream MUST be rejected with a stream
   error of type "PROTOCOL_ERROR".

3.4.1.  Exported Authenticator Characteristics

   The Exported Authenticator API defined in
   [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator] takes as input a request, a set
   of certificates, and supporting information about the certificate
   (OCSP, SCT, etc.).  The result is an opaque token which is used when
   generating the "CERTIFICATE" frame.

   Upon receipt of a "CERTIFICATE" frame, an endpoint MUST perform the
   following steps to validate the token it contains: - Using the "get
   context" API, retrieve the "certificate_request_context" used to
   generate the authenticator, if any.  - Verify that the
   "certificate_request_context" is either empty (clients only) or
   contains the Request-ID of a previously-sent "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST"
   frame.  - Use the "validate" API to confirm the validity of the
   authenticator with regard to the generated request (if any).

   Once the authenticator is accepted, the endpoint can perform any
   other checks for the acceptability of the certificate itself.

4.  Indicating failures during HTTP-Layer Certificate Authentication

   Because this draft permits certificates to be exchanged at the HTTP
   framing layer instead of the TLS layer, several certificate-related
   errors which are defined at the TLS layer might now occur at the HTTP
   framing layer.  In this section, those errors are restated and added
   to the HTTP/2 error code registry.

   BAD_CERTIFICATE (0xERROR-TBD1):  A certificate was corrupt, contained
      signatures that did not verify correctly, etc.

   UNSUPPORTED_CERTIFICATE (0xERROR-TBD2):  A certificate was of an
      unsupported type or did not contain required extensions





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   CERTIFICATE_REVOKED (0xERROR-TBD3):  A certificate was revoked by its
      signer

   CERTIFICATE_EXPIRED (0xERROR-TBD4):  A certificate has expired or is
      not currently valid

   CERTIFICATE_GENERAL (0xERROR-TBD5):  Any other certificate-related
      error

   CERTIFICATE_OVERUSED (0xERROR-TBD6):  More certificates were used on
      a request than were requested

   As described in [RFC7540], implementations MAY choose to treat a
   stream error as a connection error at any time.  Of particular note,
   a stream error cannot occur on stream 0, which means that
   implementations cannot send non-session errors in response to
   "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST", and "CERTIFICATE" frames.  Implementations
   which do not wish to terminate the connection MAY either send
   relevant errors on any stream which references the failing
   certificate in question or process the requests as unauthenticated
   and provide error information at the HTTP semantic layer.

5.  Security Considerations

   This mechanism defines an alternate way to obtain server and client
   certificates other than in the initial TLS handshake.  While the
   signature of exported authenticator values is expected to be equally
   secure, it is important to recognize that a vulnerability in this
   code path is at least equal to a vulnerability in the TLS handshake.

5.1.  Impersonation

   This mechanism could increase the impact of a key compromise.  Rather
   than needing to subvert DNS or IP routing in order to use a
   compromised certificate, a malicious server now only needs a client
   to connect to _some_ HTTPS site under its control in order to present
   the compromised certificate.  As recommended in [RFC8336], clients
   opting not to consult DNS ought to employ some alternative means to
   increase confidence that the certificate is legitimate.

   As noted in the Security Considerations of
   [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator], it difficult to formally prove
   that an endpoint is jointly authoritative over multiple certificates,
   rather than individually authoritative on each certificate.  As a
   result, clients MUST NOT assume that because one origin was
   previously colocated with another, those origins will be reachable
   via the same endpoints in the future.  Clients MUST NOT consider
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   resumption.  However, clients MAY proactively query for previously-
   presented secondary certificates.

5.2.  Fingerprinting

   This draft defines a mechanism which could be used to probe servers
   for origins they support, but opens no new attack versus making
   repeat TLS connections with different SNI values.  Servers SHOULD
   impose similar denial-of-service mitigations (e.g. request rate
   limits) to "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frames as to new TLS connections.

   While the extensions in the "CERTIFICATE_REQUEST" frame permit the
   sender to enumerate the acceptable Certificate Authorities for the
   requested certificate, it might not be prudent (either for security
   or data consumption) to include the full list of trusted Certificate
   Authorities in every request.  Senders, particularly clients, SHOULD
   send only the extensions that narrowly specify which certificates
   would be acceptable.

5.3.  Denial of Service

   Failure to provide a certificate on a stream after receiving
   "CERTIFICATE_NEEDED" blocks processing, and SHOULD be subject to
   standard timeouts used to guard against unresponsive peers.

   Validating a multitude of signatures can be computationally
   expensive, while generating an invalid signature is computationally
   cheap.  Implementations will require checks for attacks from this
   direction.  Invalid exported authenticators SHOULD be treated as a
   session error, to avoid further attacks from the peer, though an
   implementation MAY instead disable HTTP-layer certificates for the
   current connection instead.

5.4.  Confusion About State

   Implementations need to be aware of the potential for confusion about
   the state of a connection.  The presence or absence of a validated
   certificate can change during the processing of a request,
   potentially multiple times, as "USE_CERTIFICATE" frames are received.
   A server that uses certificate authentication needs to be prepared to
   reevaluate the authorization state of a request as the set of
   certificates changes.

   Client implementations need to carefully consider the impact of
   setting the "AUTOMATIC_USE" flag.  This flag is a performance
   optimization, permitting the client to avoid a round-trip on each
   request where the server checks for certificate authentication.
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   about whether the server will use the referenced cert for any future
   request, or even for an existing request which has not yet completed.
   Clients MUST NOT set this flag on any certificate which is not
   appropriate for currently-in-flight requests, and MUST NOT make any
   future requests on the same connection which they are not willing to
   have associated with the provided certificate.

6.  IANA Considerations

   This draft adds entries in three registries.

   The HTTP/2 "SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH" setting is registered in
   Section 6.1.  Four frame types are registered in Section 6.2.  Six
   error codes are registered in Section 6.3.

6.1.  HTTP/2 SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH Setting

   The SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH setting is registered in the "HTTP/2
   Settings" registry established in [RFC7540].

   Name:  SETTINGS_HTTP_CERT_AUTH

   Code:  0xSETTING-TBD

   Initial Value:  0

   Specification:  This document.

6.2.  New HTTP/2 Frames

   Four new frame types are registered in the "HTTP/2 Frame Types"
   registry established in [RFC7540].  The entries in the following
   table are registered by this document.

          +---------------------+--------------+---------------+
          | Frame Type          | Code         | Specification |
          +---------------------+--------------+---------------+
          | CERTIFICATE_NEEDED  | 0xFRAME-TBD1 | Section 3.1   |
          |                     |              |               |
          | CERTIFICATE_REQUEST | 0xFRAME-TBD2 | Section 3.3   |
          |                     |              |               |
          | CERTIFICATE         | 0xFRAME-TBD3 | Section 3.4   |
          |                     |              |               |
          | USE_CERTIFICATE     | 0xFRAME-TBD4 | Section 3.2   |
          +---------------------+--------------+---------------+






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6.3.  New HTTP/2 Error Codes

   Six new error codes are registered in the "HTTP/2 Error Code"
   registry established in [RFC7540].  The entries in the following
   table are registered by this document.

        +-------------------------+--------------+---------------+
        | Name                    | Code         | Specification |
        +-------------------------+--------------+---------------+
        | BAD_CERTIFICATE         | 0xERROR-TBD1 | Section 4     |
        |                         |              |               |
        | UNSUPPORTED_CERTIFICATE | 0xERROR-TBD2 | Section 4     |
        |                         |              |               |
        | CERTIFICATE_REVOKED     | 0xERROR-TBD3 | Section 4     |
        |                         |              |               |
        | CERTIFICATE_EXPIRED     | 0xERROR-TBD4 | Section 4     |
        |                         |              |               |
        | CERTIFICATE_GENERAL     | 0xERROR-TBD5 | Section 4     |
        |                         |              |               |
        | CERTIFICATE_OVERUSED    | 0xERROR-TBD6 | Section 4     |
        +-------------------------+--------------+---------------+

7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-tls-exported-authenticator]
              Sullivan, N., "Exported Authenticators in TLS", draft-
              ietf-tls-exported-authenticator-04 (work in progress),
              October 2017.

   [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13]
              Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
              Version 1.3", draft-ietf-tls-tls13-22 (work in progress),
              November 2017.

   [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>.

   [RFC5246]  Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
              (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5246, August 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5246>.






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   [RFC6066]  Eastlake 3rd, D., "Transport Layer Security (TLS)
              Extensions: Extension Definitions", RFC 6066,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6066, January 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6066>.

   [RFC7230]  Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Hypertext Transfer
              Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing",
              RFC 7230, DOI 10.17487/RFC7230, June 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7230>.

   [RFC7540]  Belshe, M., Peon, R., and M. Thomson, Ed., "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)", RFC 7540,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7540, May 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7540>.

   [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>.

7.2.  Informative References

   [RFC7838]  Nottingham, M., McManus, P., and J. Reschke, "HTTP
              Alternative Services", RFC 7838, DOI 10.17487/RFC7838,
              April 2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7838>.

   [RFC8336]  Nottingham, M. and E. Nygren, "The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame",
              RFC 8336, DOI 10.17487/RFC8336, March 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8336>.

7.3.  URIs

   [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/

   [2] http://httpwg.github.io/

   [3] https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/labels/secondary-certs

Appendix A.  Change Log

      *RFC Editor's Note:* Please remove this section prior to
      publication of a final version of this document.

A.1.  Since draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs-00:

   o  All frames sent on stream zero; replaced "AUTOMATIC_USE" on
      "CERTIFICATE" with "UNSOLICITED" on "USE_CERTIFICATE". (#482,#566)





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A.2.  Since draft-bishop-httpbis-http2-additional-certs-05:

   o  Adopted as draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-secondary-certs

Acknowledgements

   Eric Rescorla pointed out several failings in an earlier revision.
   Andrei Popov contributed to the TLS considerations.

   A substantial portion of Mike's work on this draft was supported by
   Microsoft during his employment there.

Authors' Addresses

   Mike Bishop
   Akamai

   Email: mbishop@evequefou.be


   Nick Sullivan
   Cloudflare

   Email: nick@cloudflare.com


   Martin Thomson
   Mozilla

   Email: martin.thomson@gmail.com





















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