Following the specific text example...

I recently had to put together a web services client using JSSE (Java's TLS
implementation), and wrote down the experience.  Hostname verification was
a significant piece of it, but even more significant was just the work
needed to find out which signature algorithms and cipher suites could be
considered "good":

http://tersesystems.com/2014/01/13/fixing-the-most-dangerous-code-in-the-world/
http://tersesystems.com/2014/03/20/fixing-x509-certificates/
http://tersesystems.com/2014/03/22/fixing-certificate-revocation/
http://tersesystems.com/2014/03/23/fixing-hostname-verification/
http://tersesystems.com/2014/03/31/testing-hostname-verification/
http://tersesystems.com/2014/07/07/play-tls-example-with-client-authentication/

I hope this gives some feedback on what it's like to try and do TLS "right"
from an end implementer's perspective.


Will Sargent
Consultant, Professional Services
Typesafe <http://typesafe.com>, the company behind Play Framework
<http://www.playframework.com>, Akka <http://akka.io> and Scala
<http://www.scala-lang.org/>


On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:50:35AM +0200, Leif Johansson wrote:
> > On 2014-08-01 15:43, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> > > Here are some attacks that don't seem to be covered (maybe because
> > > these aren't relevant):
> > >
> > > - Not properly checking certificates.
> > >
> > > - Relying on broken channel binding
> > >
> > > - Triple Hanshake
> > >
> > > Regarding DTLS, DTLS 1.0 should behave like TLS 1.1 w.r.t. attacks,
> > > except that RC4 attacks aren't applicable because the whole algorithm
> > > is disallowed.
> >
> >
> > Can you suggest specific text for these? This helps the WG judge the
> > merit of your proposal.
> >
>
> Some quickly written text (I hope I got the references right):
>
> I put the broken channel binding together with triple handshake, as those
> are closely related.
>
>
>
> Missing or incomplete certificate validation
>
> As shown in [MOST-DANGEROUS-CODE], Many non-browser clients either
> completely omit certificate validation or do incomplete validation
> (e.g. not validating server hostname or not validating the trust
> anchor), leading to those clients being vulernable to Man-in-the-Middle
> attacks.
>
>
> [MOST-DANGEROUS-CODE] M. Georgiev, S. Iyengar, S. Jana, R. Anubhai, D.
> Boneh, and V. Shmatikov,
> "The most dangerous code in the world: validating SSL certificates in
> non-browser software",
> In proceedings of ACM CCS '12, pp. 38-49, 2012
>
>
>
> Triple Handshake
>
> The triple handshake [TRIPLE-HS] enables attacker to cause two TLS
> connections to share keying material. This enables multitude of attacks,
> E.g. Man-in-the-Middle, breaking safe renegotiation and breaking channel
> binding via TLS-EXPORTER [RFC5705] or TLS-UNIQUE [RFC5929].
>
>
> [TRIPLE-HS] Bhargavan, K., Delignat-Lavaud, A., Fournet, C., Pironti, A.,
> and P. Strub,
> "Triple Handshakes and Cookie Cutters: Breaking and Fixing Authentication
> over TLS",
> IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, to appear , 2014.
>
>
>
>
> -Ilari
>
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