On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 11:43 PM Achim Kraus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>  > 2. A single server serving multiple clients, where the clients share an
>  > address.
>
> Not sure, if "address" is just the ip-address or the ip-address and
> service port. For the first it works in DTLS 1.2 CID, if the clients
> have different service ports.


You don't need CID for demultiplexing in this case.


For the second it may depend on the
> implementation. My implementations of DTLS 1.2 CID don't support that.
>

OK. Well, I believe that CID *can* handle this. Do you think otherwise?



>  > 3. A single endpoint acting as both client and server on the same
> address.
>
> See the DTLS 1.2 role exchange discussion in LwM2M.
>

I don't follow LwM2M, but DTLS-SRTP already handles this case.  See:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5763#section-5

If you're aware of cases where this design does not correctly handle
the situation, please surface them...

-Ekr


> Am 06.01.23 um 23:17 schrieb Eric Rescorla:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:59 AM Kristijan Sedlak <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>     On 6 Jan 2023, at 18:39, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]
> >>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     On Fri, Jan 6, 2023 at 9:28 AM Kristijan Sedlak
> >>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         > If I understand correctly, the issue here is a difference
> >>         between DTLS and
> >>         > "Datagram cTLS".  In DTLS, the syntax allows a client to
> >>         parse handshake
> >>         > messages from the server and discover that the message is
> >>         actually a
> >>         > ClientHello.  I don't know that this is a good idea, or
> actually
> >>         > implemented anywhere, or even formally "allowed", but it's
> >>         at least
> >>         > syntactically possible.
> >>
> >>         Yes.
> >>
> >>         > In Datagram cTLS (as of -07), this is not possible.  The
> >>         parsing of
> >>         > handshake messages depends on prior knowledge of who is the
> >>         client and who
> >>         > is the server.  This is because CTLSServerPlaintext and
> >>         CTLSClientPlaintext
> >>         > are different structs, but they use the same ContentType.
> >>
> >>         OK, "prior knowledge" explains everything :). I assumed all
> >>         structures should be parsed as unique objects.
> >>
> >>         RFC9146 and RFC9147 somehow confused me and made me think that
> >>         by using CIDs it's allowed to reuse sockets A and B and then
> >>         handle multiple connections through a single path. In that
> >>         case you would have clients and servers on both sides. Inputs
> >>         from this thread suggest that CIDs are meant for "NAT
> >>         rebinding" purpuse only.
> >>
> >>
> >>     Hmm, no, I don't think that's quite true. A server can serve
> >>     multiple clients on the same 4-tuple using the CID. It's just that
> >>     it will not generally act as a client.
> >
> >     For sure, a server can serve multiple clients on the same address
> >     :). What I meant is that, isolated to a single path, an endpoint (A
> >     or B) should only be a server or a client, not both at the same
> >     time. So a single "ip:port" is not supposed to “initiate”/"run"
> >     multiple isolated servers and clients at the same time.
> >
> >
> > There are three things going on here, not two.
> >
> > 1. A single server serving multiple clients, where the clients have
> > different addresses.
> > 2. A single server serving multiple clients, where the clients share an
> > address.
> > 3. A single endpoint acting as both client and server on the same
> address.
> >
> > DTLS allows (1) by default (2) with CID, and not (3).
> >
> > -Ekr
> >
> >
> >>     -Ekr
> >>
> >>
> >>         -Kristijan
> >
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