Subject: [TLS] [IANA #817122] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08.txt> (Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for TLS) to Proposed Standard

From: "Amanda Baber via RT" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:11:13 +0000

(BEGIN IANA LAST CALL COMMENTS)

IESG/Authors/WG Chairs:

IANA has reviewed draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08. Please see below and report any inaccuracies as soon as possible.

IANA's reviewer has the following comments:

IANA understands that, upon approval of this document, there is a single action that IANA must complete.

In the EC Named Curve Registry in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Parameters registry at

https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/

A note will be added to the registry indicating that values from 256-511 (inclusive) are set aside for "Finite Field Diffie-Hellman groups," and that all other entries in the registry are "Elliptic curve groups." This document will be listed as an additional reference for the registry itself. 

In addition, the four highest codepoints in the Finite Field Diffie-Hellman group range (508-511, inclusive) will be marked "Reserved for Private Use."

Finally, five new registration will be added the registry (along with the PRIVATE USE restriction) as follows:

+---------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------+
| Value | Description | DTLS-OK | Reference |
+---------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------+
| 256 | ffdhe2048 | Y | [ RFC-to-be ] |
| 257 | ffdhe3072 | Y | [ RFC-to-be ] |
| 258 | ffdhe4096 | Y | [ RFC-to-be ] |
| 259 | ffdhe6144 | Y | [ RFC-to-be ] |
| 260 | ffdhe8192 | Y | [ RFC-to-be ] |
| 508-511 (inclusive) | Reserved for Private Use | - | [ RFC-to-be ]  |
+---------------------+-------------+---------+-----------------+

Note:  The actions requested in this document will not be completed until the document has been approved for publication as an RFC. This message is only to confirm what actions will be performed.   

Thanks,

Amanda Baber
IANA Request Specialist
ICANN

(END IANA LAST CALL COMMENTS)

On Sat Apr 04 02:08:03 2015, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the Transport Layer Security WG
> (tls) to consider the following document:
> - 'Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for TLS'
>   <draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08.txt> as Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> [email-masked] mailing lists by 2015-04-17. Exceptionally, comments may be
> sent to [email-masked] instead. In either case, please retain the
> beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting.
> 
> Abstract
> 
> 
>    Traditional finite-field-based Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange
>    during the TLS handshake suffers from a number of security,
>    interoperability, and efficiency shortcomings.  These shortcomings
>    arise from lack of clarity about which DH group parameters TLS
>    servers should offer and clients should accept.  This document offers
>    a solution to these shortcomings for compatible peers by using a
>    section of the TLS "EC Named Curve Registry" to establish common
>    finite-field DH parameters with known structure and a mechanism for
>    peers to negotiate support for these groups.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe/
> 
> IESG discussion can be tracked via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe/ballot/
> 
> 
> No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
> 
>