3 TLS Working Group P. Eronen, Ed.
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10 Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
11 draft-ietf-tls-psk-09.txt
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44 This document specifies three sets of new ciphersuites for the
45 Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to support authentication
46 based on pre-shared keys. These pre-shared keys are symmetric keys,
47 shared in advance among the communicating parties. The first set of
48 ciphersuites uses only symmetric key operations for authentication.
49 The second set uses a Diffie-Hellman exchange authenticated with a
50 pre-shared key; and the third set combines public key authentication
51 of the server with pre-shared key authentication of the client.
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65 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
66 1.1 Applicability statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
67 1.2 Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
68 2. PSK key exchange algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
69 3. DHE_PSK key exchange algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
70 4. RSA_PSK key exchange algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
71 5. Conformance requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
72 5.1 PSK identity encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
73 5.2 Identity hint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
74 5.3 Requirements for TLS implementations . . . . . . . . . . 10
75 5.4 Requirements for management interfaces . . . . . . . . . 10
76 6. IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
77 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
78 7.1 Perfect forward secrecy (PFS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
79 7.2 Brute-force and dictionary attacks . . . . . . . . . . . 11
80 7.3 Identity privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
81 7.4 Implementation notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
82 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
83 9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
84 9.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
85 9.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
86 Authors' and Contributors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
87 Appendix A. Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
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121 Usually TLS uses public key certificates [TLS] or Kerberos [KERB] for
122 authentication. This document describes how to use symmetric keys
123 (later called pre-shared keys or PSKs), shared in advance among the
124 communicating parties, to establish a TLS connection.
126 There are basically two reasons why one might want to do this:
128 o First, using pre-shared keys can, depending on the ciphersuite,
129 avoid the need for public key operations. This is useful if TLS
130 is used in performance-constrained environments with limited CPU
133 o Second, pre-shared keys may be more convenient from a key
134 management point of view. For instance, in closed environments
135 where the connections are mostly configured manually in advance,
136 it may be easier to configure a PSK than to use certificates.
137 Another case is when the parties already have a mechanism for
138 setting up a shared secret key, and that mechanism could be used
139 to "bootstrap" a key for authenticating a TLS connection.
141 This document specifies three sets of new ciphersuites for TLS.
142 These ciphersuites use new key exchange algorithms, and re-use
143 existing cipher and MAC algorithms from [TLS] and [AES]. A summary
144 of these ciphersuites is shown below.
146 CipherSuite Key Exchange Cipher Hash
148 TLS_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA PSK RC4_128 SHA
149 TLS_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA PSK 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA
150 TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA PSK AES_128_CBC SHA
151 TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA PSK AES_256_CBC SHA
152 TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA DHE_PSK RC4_128 SHA
153 TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA DHE_PSK 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA
154 TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA DHE_PSK AES_128_CBC SHA
155 TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA DHE_PSK AES_256_CBC SHA
156 TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA RSA_PSK RC4_128 SHA
157 TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA RSA_PSK 3DES_EDE_CBC SHA
158 TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA RSA_PSK AES_128_CBC SHA
159 TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA RSA_PSK AES_256_CBC SHA
161 The first set of ciphersuites (with PSK key exchange algorithm),
162 defined in Section 2 use only symmetric key algorithms, and are thus
163 especially suitable for performance-constrained environments.
165 The ciphersuites in Section 3 (with DHE_PSK key exchange algorithm)
166 use a PSK to authenticate a Diffie-Hellman exchange. These
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175 ciphersuites protect against dictionary attacks by passive
176 eavesdroppers (but not active attackers), and also provide Perfect
177 Forward Secrecy (PFS).
179 The third set of ciphersuites (with RSA_PSK key exchange algorithm),
180 defined in Section 4, combine public key based authentication of the
181 server (using RSA and certificates) with mutual authentication using
184 1.1 Applicability statement
186 The ciphersuites defined in this document are intended for a rather
187 limited set of applications, usually involving only a very small
188 number of clients and servers. Even in such environments, other
189 alternatives may be more appropriate.
191 If the main goal is to avoid PKIs, another possibility worth
192 considering is to use self-signed certificates with public key
193 fingerprints. Instead of manually configuring a shared secret in,
194 for instance, some configuration file, a fingerprint (hash) of the
195 other party's public key (or certificate) could be placed there
198 It is also possible to use the SRP (Secure Remote Password)
199 ciphersuites for shared secret authentication [SRP]. SRP was
200 designed to be used with passwords, and incorporates protection
201 against dictionary attacks. However, it is computationally more
202 expensive than the PSK ciphersuites in Section 2.
204 1.2 Conventions used in this document
206 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
207 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
208 document are to be interpreted as described in [KEYWORDS].
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231 2. PSK key exchange algorithm
233 This section defines the PSK key exchange algorithm and associated
234 ciphersuites. These ciphersuites use only symmetric key algorithms.
236 It is assumed that the reader is familiar with ordinary TLS
237 handshake, shown below. The elements in parenthesis are not included
238 when PSK key exchange algorithm is used, and "*" indicates a
239 situation-dependent message that is not always sent.
244 ClientHello -------->
249 <-------- ServerHelloDone
257 Application Data <-------> Application Data
259 The client indicates its willingness to use pre-shared key
260 authentication by including one or more PSK ciphersuites in the
261 ClientHello message. If the TLS server also wants to use pre-shared
262 keys, it selects one of the PSK ciphersuites, places the selected
263 ciphersuite in the ServerHello message, and includes an appropriate
264 ServerKeyExchange message (see below). The Certificate and
265 CertificateRequest payloads are omitted from the response.
267 Both clients and servers may have pre-shared keys with several
268 different parties. The client indicates which key to use by
269 including a "PSK identity" in the ClientKeyExchange message (note
270 that unlike in [SHAREDKEYS], the session_id field in ClientHello
271 message keeps its usual meaning). To help the client in selecting
272 which identity to use, the server can provide a "PSK identity hint"
273 in the ServerKeyExchange message. If no hint is provided, the
274 ServerKeyExchange message is omitted. See Section 5 for more
275 detailed description of these fields.
277 The format of the ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange messages is
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288 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
289 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
291 opaque psk_identity_hint<0..2^16-1>;
296 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
297 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
299 opaque psk_identity<0..2^16-1>;
303 The premaster secret is formed as follows: if the PSK is N octets
304 long, concatenate a uint16 with the value N, N zero octets, a second
305 uint16 with the value N, and the PSK itself.
307 Note 1: All the ciphersuites in this document share the same
308 general structure for the premaster secret, namely
311 opaque other_secret<0..2^16-1>;
312 opaque psk<0..2^16-1>;
315 Here "other_secret" is either zeroes (plain PSK case), or comes
316 from the Diffie-Hellman or RSA exchange (DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK,
317 respectively). See Sections 3 and 4 for a more detailed
320 Note 2: Using zeroes for "other_secret" effectively means that
321 only the HMAC-SHA1 part (but not the HMAC-MD5 part) of the TLS PRF
322 is used when constructing the master secret. This was considered
323 more elegant from an analytical viewpoint than, for instance,
324 using the same key for both the HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1 parts. See
325 [KRAWCZYK] for a more detailed rationale.
327 The TLS handshake is authenticated using the Finished messages as
330 If the server does not recognize the PSK identity, it MAY respond
331 with an "unknown_psk_identity" alert message. Alternatively, if the
332 server wishes to hide the fact that the PSK identity was not known,
333 it MAY continue the protocol as if the PSK identity existed but the
334 key was incorrect: that is, respond with a "decrypt_error" alert.
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343 3. DHE_PSK key exchange algorithm
345 This section defines additional ciphersuites that use a PSK to
346 authenticate a Diffie-Hellman exchange. These ciphersuites give some
347 additional protection against dictionary attacks, and also provide
348 Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). See Section 7 for discussion of
349 related security considerations.
351 When these ciphersuites are used, the ServerKeyExchange and
352 ClientKeyExchange messages also include the Diffie-Hellman
353 parameters. The PSK identity and identity hint fields have the same
354 meaning as in the previous section (note that the ServerKeyExchange
355 message is always sent even if no PSK identity hint is provided).
357 The format of the ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange messages is
361 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
362 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
363 case diffie_hellman_psk: /* NEW */
364 opaque psk_identity_hint<0..2^16-1>;
365 ServerDHParams params;
370 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
371 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
372 case diffie_hellman_psk: /* NEW */
373 opaque psk_identity<0..2^16-1>;
374 ClientDiffieHellmanPublic public;
378 The premaster secret is formed as follows. First, perform the
379 Diffie-Hellman computation in the same way as for other
380 Diffie-Hellman based ciphersuites in [TLS]. Let Z be the value
381 produced by this computation (with leading zero bytes stripped as in
382 other Diffie-Hellman based ciphersuites). Concatenate a uint16
383 containing the length of Z (in octets), Z itself, a uint16 containing
384 the length of the PSK (in octets), and the PSK itself.
386 This corresponds to the general structure for the premaster secrets
387 (see Note 1 in Section 2) in this document, with "other_secret"
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399 4. RSA_PSK key exchange algorithm
401 The ciphersuites in this section use RSA and certificates to
402 authenticate the server, in addition to using a PSK.
404 As in normal RSA ciphersuites, the server must send a Certificate
405 message. The format of the ServerKeyExchange and ClientKeyExchange
406 messages is shown below. If no PSK identity hint is provided, the
407 ServerKeyExchange message is omitted.
410 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
411 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
412 case rsa_psk: /* NEW */
413 opaque psk_identity_hint<0..2^16-1>;
418 select (KeyExchangeAlgorithm) {
419 /* other cases for rsa, diffie_hellman, etc. */
420 case rsa_psk: /* NEW */
421 opaque psk_identity<0..2^16-1>;
422 EncryptedPreMasterSecret;
426 The EncryptedPreMasterSecret field sent from the client to the server
427 contains a 2-byte version number and a 46-byte random value,
428 encrypted using the server's RSA public key as described in Section
429 7.4.7.1 of [TLS]. The actual premaster secret is formed by both
430 parties as follows: concatenate a uint16 with the value 48, the
431 2-byte version number and the 46-byte random value, a uint16
432 containing the length of the PSK (in octets), and the PSK itself.
433 (The premaster secret is thus 52 octets longer than the PSK.)
435 This corresponds to the general structure for the premaster secrets
436 (see Note 1 in Section 2) in this document, with "other_secret"
437 containing both the 2-byte version number and the 46-byte random
440 Neither the normal RSA ciphersuites nor these RSA_PSK ciphersuites
441 themselves specify what the certificates contain (in addition to the
442 RSA public key), or how the certificates are to be validated. In
443 particular, it is possible to use the RSA_PSK ciphersuites with
444 unvalidated self-signed certificates to provide somewhat similar
445 protection against dictionary attacks as the DHE_PSK ciphersuites
446 defined in Section 3.
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455 5. Conformance requirements
457 It is expected that different types of identities are useful for
458 different applications running over TLS. This document does not
459 therefore mandate the use of any particular type of identity (such as
460 IPv4 address or FQDN).
462 However, the TLS client and server clearly have to agree on the
463 identities and keys to be used. To improve interoperability, this
464 document places requirements on how the identity is encoded in the
465 protocol, and what kinds of identities and keys implementations have
468 The requirements for implementations are divided to two categories,
469 requirements for TLS implementations and management interfaces. In
470 this context, "TLS implementation" refers to a TLS library or module
471 that is intended to be used for several different purposes, while
472 "management interface" would typically be implemented by a particular
473 application that uses TLS.
475 This document does not specify how the server stores the keys and
476 identities, or how exactly it finds the key corresponding to the
477 identity it receives. For instance, if the identity is a domain
478 name, it might be appropriate to do a case-insensitive lookup. It is
479 RECOMMENDED that before looking up the key, the server processes the
480 PSK identity with a stringprep profile [STRINGPREP] appropriate for
481 the identity in question (such as Nameprep [NAMEPREP] for components
482 of domain names or SASLprep for usernames [SASLPREP]).
484 5.1 PSK identity encoding
486 The PSK identity MUST be first converted to a character string, and
487 then encoded to octets using UTF-8 [UTF8]. For instance,
489 o IPv4 addresses are sent as dotted-decimal strings (e.g.,
490 "192.0.2.1"), not as 32-bit integers in network byte order.
492 o Domain names are sent in their usual text form (e.g.,
493 "www.example.com" or "embedded.dot.example.net"), not in DNS
496 o X.500 Distinguished Names are sent in their string representation
497 [LDAPDN], not as BER-encoded ASN.1.
499 This encoding is clearly not optimal for many types of identities.
500 It was chosen to avoid identity type specific parsing and encoding
501 code in implementations where the identity is configured by a person
502 using some kind of management interface. Requiring such identity
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511 type specific code would also increase the chances for
512 interoperability problems resulting from different implementations
513 supporting different identity types.
517 In the absence of an application profile specification specifying
518 otherwise, servers SHOULD NOT provide an identity hint and clients
519 MUST ignore the identity hint field. Applications that do use this
520 field MUST specify its contents, how the value is chosen by the TLS
521 server, and what the TLS client is expected to do with the value.
523 5.3 Requirements for TLS implementations
525 TLS implementations supporting these ciphersuites MUST support
526 arbitrary PSK identities up to 128 octets in length, and arbitrary
527 PSKs up to 64 octets in length. Supporting longer identities and
530 5.4 Requirements for management interfaces
532 In the absence of an application profile specification specifying
533 otherwise, a management interface for entering the PSK and/or PSK
534 identity MUST support the following:
536 o Entering PSK identities consisting of up to 128 printable Unicode
537 characters. Supporting as wide character repertoire and as long
538 identities as feasible is RECOMMENDED.
540 o Entering PSKs up to 64 octets in length as ASCII strings and in
541 hexadecimal encoding.
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567 6. IANA considerations
569 IANA does not currently have a registry for TLS ciphersuite or alert
570 numbers, so there are no IANA actions associated with this document.
572 For easier reference in the future, the ciphersuite numbers defined
573 in this document are summarized below.
575 CipherSuite TLS_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8A };
576 CipherSuite TLS_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8B };
577 CipherSuite TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8C };
578 CipherSuite TLS_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8D };
579 CipherSuite TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8E };
580 CipherSuite TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x8F };
581 CipherSuite TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x90 };
582 CipherSuite TLS_DHE_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x91 };
583 CipherSuite TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA = { 0x00, 0x92 };
584 CipherSuite TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x93 };
585 CipherSuite TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x94 };
586 CipherSuite TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA = { 0x00, 0x95 };
588 This document also defines a new TLS alert message,
589 unknown_psk_identity(115).
591 7. Security Considerations
593 As with all schemes involving shared keys, special care should be
594 taken to protect the shared values and to limit their exposure over
597 7.1 Perfect forward secrecy (PFS)
599 The PSK and RSA_PSK ciphersuites defined in this document do not
600 provide Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS). That is, if the shared secret
601 key (in PSK ciphersuites), or both the shared secret key and the RSA
602 private key (in RSA_PSK ciphersuites), is somehow compromised, an
603 attacker can decrypt old conversations.
605 The DHE_PSK ciphersuites provide Perfect Forward Secrecy if a fresh
606 DH private key is generated for each handshake.
608 7.2 Brute-force and dictionary attacks
610 Use of a fixed shared secret of limited entropy (for example, a PSK
611 that is relatively short, or was chosen by a human and thus may
612 contain less entropy than its length would imply) may allow an
613 attacker to perform a brute-force or dictionary attack to recover the
614 secret. This may be either an off-line attack (against a captured
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623 TLS handshake messages), or an on-line attack where the attacker
624 attempts to connect to the server and tries different keys.
626 For the PSK ciphersuites, an attacker can get the information
627 required for an off-line attack by eavesdropping a TLS handshake, or
628 by getting a valid client to attempt connection with the attacker (by
629 tricking the client to connect to wrong address, or intercepting a
630 connection attempt to the correct address, for instance).
632 For the DHE_PSK ciphersuites, an attacker can obtain the information
633 by getting a valid client to attempt connection with the attacker.
634 Passive eavesdropping alone is not sufficient.
636 For the RSA_PSK ciphersuites, only the server (authenticated using
637 RSA and certificates) can obtain sufficient information for an
640 It is RECOMMENDED that implementations that allow the administrator
641 to manually configure the PSK also provide a functionality for
642 generating a new random PSK, taking [RANDOMNESS] into account.
646 The PSK identity is sent in cleartext. While using a user name or
647 other similar string as the PSK identity is the most straightforward
648 option, it may lead to problems in some environments since an
649 eavesdropper is able to identify the communicating parties. Even
650 when the identity does not reveal any information itself, reusing the
651 same identity over time may eventually allow an attacker to perform
652 traffic analysis to identify the parties. It should be noted that
653 this is no worse than client certificates, since they are also sent
656 7.4 Implementation notes
658 The implementation notes in [TLS11] about correct implementation and
659 use of RSA (including Section 7.4.7.1) and Diffie-Hellman (including
660 Appendix F.1.1.3) apply to the DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK ciphersuites as
665 The protocol defined in this document is heavily based on work by Tim
666 Dierks and Peter Gutmann, and borrows some text from [SHAREDKEYS] and
667 [AES]. The DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK ciphersuites are based on earlier
670 Valuable feedback was also provided by Bernard Aboba, Lakshminath
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679 Dondeti, Philip Ginzboorg, Peter Gutmann, Sam Hartman, Russ Housley,
680 David Jablon, Nikos Mavroyanopoulos, Bodo Moeller, Eric Rescorla, and
683 When the first version of this draft was almost ready, the authors
684 learned that something similar had been proposed already in 1996
685 [PASSAUTH]. However, this draft is not intended for web password
686 authentication, but rather for other uses of TLS.
690 9.1 Normative References
692 [AES] Chown, P., "Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
693 Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC
696 [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
697 Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, March 1997.
700 Eastlake, D., 3rd, Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
701 "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
704 [TLS] Dierks, T. and C. Allen, "The TLS Protocol Version 1.0",
705 RFC 2246, January 1999.
707 [UTF8] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
708 10646", RFC 3629, November 2003.
710 9.2 Informative References
712 [KERB] Medvinsky, A. and M. Hur, "Addition of Kerberos Cipher
713 Suites to Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 2712,
716 [KEYEX] Badra, M., Cherkaoui, O., Hajjeh, I. and A. Serhrouchni,
717 "Pre-Shared-Key key Exchange methods for TLS",
718 draft-badra-tls-key-exchange-00 (expired), August 2004.
720 [KRAWCZYK] Krawczyk, H., "Re: TLS shared keys PRF", message on
721 ietf-tls@lists.certicom.com mailing list 2004-01-13,
722 http://www.imc.org/ietf-tls/mail-archive/msg04098.html.
724 [LDAPDN] Zeilenga, K., "LDAP: String Representation of
725 Distinguished Names", draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-16 (work in
726 progress), February 2005.
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735 [NAMEPREP] Hoffman, P. and M. Blanchet, "Nameprep: A Stringprep
736 Profile for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)", RFC
739 [PASSAUTH] Simon, D., "Addition of Shared Key Authentication to
740 Transport Layer Security (TLS)",
741 draft-ietf-tls-passauth-00 (expired), November 1996.
743 [SASLPREP] Zeilenga, K., "SASLprep: Stringprep Profile for User Names
744 and Passwords", RFC 4013, February 2005.
747 Gutmann, P., "Use of Shared Keys in the TLS Protocol",
748 draft-ietf-tls-sharedkeys-02 (expired), October 2003.
750 [SRP] Taylor, D., Wu, T., Mavroyanopoulos, N. and T. Perrin,
751 "Using SRP for TLS Authentication", draft-ietf-tls-srp-09
752 (work in progress), March 2005.
755 Hoffman, P. and M. Blanchet, "Preparation of
756 Internationalized Strings ("stringprep")", RFC 3454,
759 [TLS11] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The TLS Protocol Version
760 1.1", draft-ietf-tls-rfc2246-bis-12 (work in progress),
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791 Authors' and Contributors' Addresses
794 Nokia Research Center
796 FIN-00045 Nokia Group
798 Email: pasi.eronen@nokia.com
806 Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@siemens.com
814 Email: Mohamad.Badra@enst.fr
821 Email: cherkaoui.omar@uqam.ca
829 Email: Ibrahim.Hajjeh@enst.fr
837 Email: Ahmed.Serhrouchni@enst.fr
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847 Appendix A. Changelog
849 (This section should be removed by the RFC Editor before
852 Changes from -08 to -09:
854 o Clarified internationalization of PSK identities in Section 5.
856 o Corrected the example IP address in Section 5.1.
858 o Small clarification to IANA considerations on Section 6.
860 o Editorial: changed numeric references to symbolic ones, updated
861 references to latest versions.
863 Changes from -07 to -08:
865 o Added table of contents and updated I-D boilerplate.
867 o Small clarification to motivation in Section 1.
869 o Small clarification to note 2 in Section 2.
871 o Corrected all instances of "an uint16" to "a uint16".
873 o Updated references to latest versions.
875 Changes from -06 to -07:
877 o Small clarifications to management interface requirements.
879 Changes from -05 to -06:
881 o Small clarifications to how the premaster secret is formed.
883 o Added a section about conformance requirements, and moved existing
884 text about identity formats there.
886 Changes from -04 to -05:
888 o Omit ServerKeyExchange message (in PSK/RSA_PSK versions) if no
889 identity hint is provided.
891 Changes from -03 to -04:
893 o Added a note about premaster secret "general structure" in
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903 o Something in the I-D submission procedure had removed all
904 circumflexes from -03 version, turning e.g. "2^16" (two-to- the
905 sixteenth power) to "216" (two hundred and sixteen). Let's try
908 Changes from -02 to -03:
910 o Aligned the way the premaster secret is derived.
912 o Specified that identities must be sent as human-readable UTF-8
913 strings, not in binary formats. Changed reference to RFC 3629
914 from informative to normative.
916 o Selected ciphersuite and alert numbers, and updated IANA
917 considerations section to match this.
919 o Reworded some text about dictionary attacks in Section 6.2.
921 Changes from -01 to -02:
923 o Clarified text about DHE_PSK ciphersuites in Section 1.
925 o Clarified explanation of HMAC-SHA1/MD5 use of PRF in Section 2.
927 o Added note about certificate validation and self-signed
928 certificates in Section 4.
930 o Added Mohamad Badra et al. as contributors.
932 Changes from draft-ietf-tls-psk-00 to -01:
934 o Added DHE_PSK and RSA_PSK key exchange algorithms, and updated
935 other text accordingly
937 o Removed SHA-1 hash from PSK key exchange premaster secret
938 construction (since premaster secret doesn't need to be 48 bytes).
940 o Added unknown_psk_identity alert message.
942 o Updated IANA considerations section.
944 Changes from draft-eronen-tls-psk-00 to draft-ietf-tls-psk-00:
946 o Updated dictionary attack considerations based on comments from
949 o Added a recommendation about using UTF-8 in the identity field.
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959 o Removed Appendix A comparing this document with
960 draft-ietf-tls-sharedkeys-02.
962 o Removed IPR comment about SPR.
964 o Minor editorial changes.
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