Internet DRAFT - draft-cheneau-cga-pk-agility
draft-cheneau-cga-pk-agility
CGA & Send maintenance T. Cheneau
Internet-Draft M. Maknavicius
Expires: December 7, 2009 TMSP
S. Sean
Huawei
M. Vanderveen
Qualcomm
June 5, 2009
Support for Multiple Signature Algorithms in Cryptographically Generated
Addresses (CGAs)
draft-cheneau-cga-pk-agility-01
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Abstract
This document defines an extension field for the CGA Parameters data
structure specified in RFC 3972. This extension field carries a
Public Key that is used in Cryptographically Generated Address (CGA)
generation. This extension enables protocols using CGAs, such as
SEND, to use multiple Public Key signing algorithms and/or multiple
Public Keys.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Public Key extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Public Key extension format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. CGA Generation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Security Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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1. Introduction
Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) [RFC3972] have been
designed to provide a binding of an internet address (IPv6) to a
public key. A node who claims to own a particular IPv6 address, can
prove so in the messages (e.g. ICMP) it sends by using a digital
signature for authentication and integrity protection. Since the
IPv6 address was generated from the public key, verification of the
respective signature is tantamount to verification of ownership of
the claimed IPv6 address.
CGAs [RFC3972] were defined to only use RSA as the associated
signature algorithm. Only one RSA public key is associated with a
CGA and this public key is carried in the Public Key field of the CGA
Parameters data structure.
Due to the expected variations in cryptographic ability of IPv6
nodes, support for signature algorithm agility in CGA is desired.
However, since the CGA specification [RFC3972] states that SEND
"SHOULD" use an RSA public/private key pair, backward compatibility
is preserved herein.
A logical place for extending the CGA Parameters data structure to
include other types of public keys is its "extension fields". Some
guidance on the format of these extensions is provided in [RFC4581].
One type of CGA Parameters data structure extension is defined in
Section 2 and this type of extension is able to carry public keys, in
addition to the RSA public key defined in the Public Key field of CGA
Parameters data structure.
These extensions allow new functionnalities on CGA based protocols,
such as the Signature Algorithm Agility in SEND
[cheneau-send-sig-agility].
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2. Public Key extension
This section describes an extension field that conforms to the
guidelines of [RFC4581].
This extension allows a CGA Parameters data structure to carry public
keys in addition to the key in the Public Key field. This approach
paves the way for one CGA to possibly be associated with multiple
public keys.
This extension allows a node to select a Public Key value that is
different from the one in the Public Key field of the CGA Parameters
data structure option. This Public Key is placed in an extension
embedded in the Extension field of the CGA Parameters data structure,
described in [RFC3972].
2.1. Public Key extension format
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
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Extension Type | Extension Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Public Key ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Public Key extension format
Extension Type
TBA. (16-bit unsigned integer. See Section 5.)
Extension Length
The length of the Public Key field to follow, in octets. 16-bit
unsigned integer.
Public Key
This is a variable-length field containing the public key of the
sender. The public key MUST be formatted as a DER-encoded
[ITU.X690.2002] ASN.1 structure of the type SubjectPublicKeyInfo,
defined in the Internet X.509 certificate profile [RFC5280]. When
RSA is used, the algorithm identifier MUST be rsaEncryption, which
is 1.2.840.113549.1.1.1, and the RSA public key MUST be formatted
by using the RSAPublicKey type as specified in Section 2.3.1 of
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[RFC3279]. The RSA key length SHOULD be at least 384 bits.
When ECC is used, the algorithm identifier MUST be of type id-
ecPublicKey (OID 1.2.840.10045.2.1), as defined in [RFC5480]. ECC
public key encoding is specified in this reference. Note that the
ECC key lengths are determined by the ECParameters field named
namedCurves (curves implying key length).
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3. CGA Generation Process
When a node supports two or more types of signing algorithms, and is
able to generate two or more corresponding public keys, then it can
derive a single CGA using all these keys. The derivation is done
exactly as in [RFC3972]; one key is placed in the CGA Parameters data
structure "Public Key" field while the rest of the keys are placed in
separate extension fields. This is illustrated in Figure 2.
It should be noted that the type of the public key (RSA, ECC, etc.)
is already encoded into the "Public Key" field itself, and thus there
is no need to identify the public key type separately. This is due
to the fact that the "Public Key" field, according to [RFC3972] is a
DER-encoded ASN.1 structure of the type "SubjectPublicKeyInfo", and
therefore includes a subfield called "AlgorithmIdentifier".
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List of keys CGA Parameters data structure
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ Modifier |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
+ Subnet Prefix +
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|Col Count| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
| | | Public Key |
~ Public Key 1 ~ -> ~ ~
| | | (variable length) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Extension |
| | ~ Public Key 2 ~
~ Public Key 2 ~ -> | (variable length) |
| | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | |
~ ... ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | | Extension |
~ Public Key N ~ -> ~ Public Key N ~
| | | (variable length) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Extension Fields |
~ ~
| (optional, variable length) |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: CGA Parameters structure with multiple keys
Note that an implementation should choose the number of simultaneous
Public Key Extension fields used so as the total length of the
extension fields does not exceed a threshold that requires
fragmentation support at the SEND or other upper-layer protocol.
Support for RSA Public Keys and signature algorithm is only
RECOMMENDED for backward compatibility. This specification does not
mandate support for any particular public key signature algorithm.
Therefore, nodes can be configured to choose/support only a single
additional signature algorithm besides RSA. However, a node is also
free to not support RSA and still claim compatibility with this
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specification.
Since [RFC3972] mandates the use of RSA keys in the Public Key field,
a node compatible with [RFC3972] only will extract the RSA public key
from the Public Key field and ignore the extension fields.
Therefore, in order to achieve backward compatibility, if a node uses
a CGA associated with multiple public keys (through the use of the
Public Key extension), the following procedures are in place: if one
of the public keys is of RSA type, then that key SHOULD be placed in
the Public Key field of the CGA Parameters data structure, while the
other key(s) SHOULD be placed in the Extension field(s).
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4. Security Consideration
The document specifies a CGA extension field format. No additional
vulnerabilities appear besides those described in section 7 of
[RFC3972]
However, it should be noted that the resulting security level of a
multiple-key CGA, that this document made possible to use, is only
that of the weakest key. Therefore, as the document [RFC3972] state,
when RSA is used, the RSA key length SHOULD be at least 384 bits. In
this document, we state that every key in use SHOULD have a security
level matching or exceeding that of a 384-bit RSA key.
Whenever protocols negotiate signature algorithms, downgrade attacks
are considered. This document only provides the ability for CGA
options to carry multiple public keys; negotiations of signature
algorithms or public keys are out of the scope of this document.
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5. IANA Considerations
This document defines one new CGA Extension Type [RFC4581] option,
which must be assigned by IANA:
Name: Public Key Extension Type;
Value: TBA.
Description: see Section 2.
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6. References
6.1. Normative References
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.
[RFC3972] Aura, T., "Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)",
RFC 3972, March 2005.
[RFC3971] Arkko, J., Kempf, J., Zill, B., and P. Nikander, "SEcure
Neighbor Discovery (SEND)", RFC 3971, March 2005.
[RFC4982] Bagnulo, M. and J. Arkko, "Support for Multiple Hash
Algorithms in Cryptographically Generated Addresses
(CGAs)", RFC 4982, July 2007.
[RFC4861] Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
"Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
September 2007.
6.2. Informative References
[RFC4581] Bagnulo, M. and J. Arkko, "Cryptographically Generated
Addresses (CGA) Extension Field Format", RFC 4581,
October 2006.
[RFC3279] Bassham, L., Polk, W., and R. Housley, "Algorithms and
Identifiers for the Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 3279, April 2002.
[RFC4866] Arkko, J., Vogt, C., and W. Haddad, "Enhanced Route
Optimization for Mobile IPv6", RFC 4866, May 2007.
[RFC5480] Turner, S., Brown, D., Yiu, K., Housley, R., and T. Polk,
"Elliptic Curve Cryptography Subject Public Key
Information", RFC 5480, March 2009.
[ITU.X690.2002]
International Telecommunication Union, "Information
Technology - ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic
Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)", ITU-T
Recommandation X.690, July 2002.
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[cheneau-send-sig-agility]
Cheneau, T., Laurent-Maknavicius, M., Shen, S., and M.
Vanderveen, "Signature Algorithm Agility in the Secure
Neighbor Discovery (SEND) Protocol",
draft-cheneau-send-sig-agility-01 (work in progress),
June 2009.
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Authors' Addresses
Tony Cheneau
Institut TELECOM, TELECOM SudParis, CNRS SAMOVAR UMR 5157
9 rue Charles Fourier
Evry 91011
France
Email: tony.cheneau@it-sudparis.eu
Maryline Laurent-Maknavicius
Institut TELECOM, TELECOM SudParis, CNRS SAMOVAR UMR 5157
9 rue Charles Fourier
Evry 91011
France
Email: maryline.maknavicius@it-sudparis.eu
Sean Shen
Huawei
Email: sshen@huawei.com
Michaela Vanderveen
Qualcomm
Email: mvandervn@gmail.com
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