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Use RFC9325 to Rationalise TLS recommendations where possible #12

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dcmgashcisco opened this issue Sep 20, 2023 · 1 comment
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Reviewers proposed to evaluate RFC9325 as a posisble reference for TLS 1.3 recommendations.

@dcmgashcisco dcmgashcisco changed the title Use RFC9325 to Rationalise where pssible Use RFC9325 to Rationalise where possible Sep 20, 2023
@dcmgashcisco dcmgashcisco changed the title Use RFC9325 to Rationalise where possible Use RFC9325 to Rationalise TLS recommendations where possible Sep 20, 2023
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Some points gleaned from RFC9325

  • They make 1.2 Mandatory to support (due to wide adoption) and 1.3 SHOULD support. I think we should deviate and stick to 1.3 and above only
  • Then include Data Integrity in the services in addition to Confidentiality and Peer authentication, we should porbably follow?
  • They have an interesting take on STARTTLS and dedicated port, concluding "what matters is the end state of the channel" as the important thing. I think this underestimates downgrade attack, but we can reference their work.
  • They put not insignificant focus on "cross-protocol" attacks, the ALPN issues. Though I dont think T+ would be a target for it, it is probably best to be safe and get an ALPN protocol number allocated.
  • SNI: "At the time of writing, a technology for encrypting the SNI
    (called Encrypted Client Hello) is being worked on in the TLS Working
    Group [TLS-ECH]. Once that method has been standardized and widely
    implemented, it will likely be appropriate to recommend its usage in
    a future version of this BCP." - useful to add to our section.

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