Network Working Group M. Vucinic Internet-Draft Inria Intended status: Informational G. Selander Expires: 22 August 2020 J. Mattsson Ericsson AB D. Garcia Odin Solutions S.L. 19 February 2020 Requirements for a Lightweight AKE for OSCORE draft-ietf-lake-reqs-01 Abstract This document compiles the requirements for a lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol for OSCORE. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on 22 August 2020. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Problem description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1. AKE for OSCORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2. Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.3. Mutual Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4. Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5. Cryptographic Agility and Negotiation Integrity . . . . . 7 2.6. Identity Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.7. Auxiliary Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.8. Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.9. Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.10. Lightweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.10.1. LoRaWAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.10.2. 6TiSCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.10.3. NB-IoT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.10.4. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.10.5. AKE frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3. Requirements Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 1. Introduction OSCORE [RFC8613] is a lightweight communication security protocol providing end-to-end security on application layer for constrained IoT settings (cf. [RFC7228]). OSCORE lacks a matching authenticated key exchange protocol (AKE). The intention with LAKE is to create a simple yet secure AKE for implementation in embedded devices supporting OSCORE. To ensure that the AKE is efficient for the expected applications of OSCORE, we list the relevant public specifications of technologies where OSCORE is included: * The IETF 6TiSCH WG charter (-02) identifies the need to "secur[e] the join process and mak[e] that fit within the constraints of high latency, low throughput and small frame sizes that characterize IEEE802.15.4 TSCH". OSCORE protects the join protocol as described in 6TiSCH Minimal Security [I-D.ietf-6tisch-minimal-security]. * The IETF LPWAN WG charter (-01) identifies the need to improve the transport capabilities of LPWA networks such as NB-IoT and LoRa Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 whose "common traits include ... frame sizes ... [on] the order of tens of bytes transmitted a few times per day at ultra-low speeds". The application of OSCORE is described in [I-D.ietf-lpwan-coap-static-context-hc]. * OMA Specworks LwM2M version 1.1 [LwM2M] defines bindings to two challenging radio technologies where OSCORE will be deployed: LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. Other industry fora which plan to use OSCORE: * Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) has been actively involved in the OSCORE development for the purpose of deploying OSCORE. * Fairhair Alliance has defined an architecture [Fairhair] which adopts OSCORE for multicast, but it is not clear whether the architecture will support unicast OSCORE. Fairhair Alliance merged with OCF in November 2019. This document compiles the requirements for the AKE for OSCORE. It summarizes the security requirements that are expected from such an AKE, as well as the main characteristics of the environments where the solution is envisioned to be deployed. The solution will presumably be useful in other scenarios as well since a low security overhead improves the overall performance. 2. Problem description 2.1. AKE for OSCORE The rationale for designing this protocol is that OSCORE is lacking a matching AKE. OSCORE was designed for lightweight RESTful operations for example by minimizing the overhead, and applying the protection to the application layer, thereby limiting the data being encrypted and integrity protected for the other endpoint. Moreover, OSCORE was tailored for use with lightweight primitives that are likely to be implemented in the device, specifically CoAP, CBOR and COSE. The same properties must apply to the AKE. In order to be suitable for OSCORE, at the end of the AKE protocol run the two parties must agree on (see Section 3.2 of [RFC8613]): * A shared secret (OSCORE Master Secret) with Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS, see Section 2.4) and a good amount of randomness. (The term "good amount of randomness" is borrowed from [HKDF] to signify not necessarily uniformly distributed randomness.) * OSCORE Sender IDs of peer endpoints, arbitrarily short Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 * COSE algorithms to use with OSCORE COSE provides the crypto primitives for OSCORE, and shall therefore be used also by the AKE, for several reasons including maintenance of crypto library. COSE provides identification of credentials and algorithms for OSCORE and the AKE, and an extension point for new schemes. The AKE cannot rely on messages being exchanged in both directions after the AKE has completed, because CoAP/OSCORE requests may not have a response [RFC7967]. Furthermore, there is no assumption of dependence between CoAP client/server and AKE initiator/responder roles, and an OSCORE context may be used with CoAP client and server roles interchanged as is done, for example, in [LwM2M]. Moreover, the AKE must support transport over CoAP. Since the AKE messages most commonly will be encapsulated in CoAP, the AKE must not duplicate functionality provided by CoAP, or at least not duplicate functionality in such a way that it adds extra costs in terms of code size, code maintenance, etc. It is therefore assumed that the AKE is being transported in a protocol that provides reliable transport, that can preserve packet ordering and handle message duplication, that can perform fragmentation and protect against denial of service attacks, such as provided by the CoAP Echo option [I-D.ietf-core-echo-request-tag]. The AKE may use other transport than CoAP. In this case the underlying layers must correspondingly handle message loss, reordering, message duplication, fragmentation, and denial of service protection. 2.2. Credentials IoT deployments differ in terms of what credentials can be supported. Currently many systems use pre-shared keys (PSKs) provisioned out of band, for various reasons. PSKs are often used in a first deployment because of their perceived simplicity. The use of PSKs allows for protection of communication without major additional security processing, and also enables the use of symmetric crypto algorithms only, reducing the implementation and computational effort in the endpoints. However, PSK-based provisioning has inherent weaknesses. There has been reports of massive breaches of PSK provisioning systems, and as many systems use PSKs without perfect forward secrecy (PFS) they are vulnerable to passive pervasive monitoring. The security of these systems can be improved by adding PFS through an AKE authenticated by the provisioned PSK. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 Shared keys can alternatively be established in the endpoints using an AKE protocol authenticated with asymmetric public keys instead of symmetric secret keys. Raw public keys (RPK) can be provisioned with the same scheme as PSKs, which allows for a more relaxed trust model since RPKs need not be secret. The corresponding private keys are assumed to be provisioned to the party being authenticated beforehand (e.g. in factory or generated on-board). As a third option, by using a public key infrastructure and running an asymmetric key AKE with public key certificates instead of RPKs, key provisioning can be omitted, leading to a more automated ("zero- touch") bootstrapping procedure. The root CA keys are assumed to be provisioned beforehand. These steps provide an example of a migration path in limited scoped steps from simple to more robust security bootstrapping and provisioning schemes where each step improves the overall security and/or simplicity of deployment of the IoT system, although not all steps are necessarily feasible for the most constrained settings. In order to allow for these different schemes, the AKE must support PSK- (shared between two nodes), RPK- and certificate-based authentication. Multiple public key authentication credential types may need to be supported for RPK and certificate-based authentication. In case of a Diffie-Hellman key exchange both the use of signature based public keys (for compatibility with existing ecosystem) and static DH public keys (for reduced message size) is expected. To further minimize the bandwidth consumption it is required to support transporting the certificates by reference rather than by value. Considering the wide variety of deployments the AKE must support different schemes for transporting and identifying credentials, including those identified in Section 2 of [I-D.ietf-cose-x509]. The common lack of a user interface in constrained devices leads to various credential provisioning schemes. The use of RPKs may be appropriate for the authentication of the AKE initiator but not for the AKE responder. The AKE must support different credentials for authentication in different directions of the AKE run, e.g. certificate-based authentication for the initiating endpoint and RPK- based authentication for the responding endpoint. Assuming that both signature public keys and static DH public keys are in use, then also the case of mixed credentials need to be supported with one endpoint using a static DH public key and the Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 other using a signature public key. The AKE shall support the initiator signaling which public key credential mix to be used in the protocol such that the responder knows and can verify that the intended variant was executed. 2.3. Mutual Authentication The AKE must provide mutual authentication during the protocol run. At the end of the AKE protocol, each endpoint shall have authenticated the other's credential. In particular, both endpoints must agree on a fresh session identifier, and the roles and credentials of both endpoints. Since the protocol may be initiated by different endpoints, it shall not be necessary to determine beforehand which endpoint takes the role of initiator of the AKE. The mutual authentication guarantees of the AKE shall at least guarantee the following properties: * The AKE shall provide Key Compromise Impersonation (KCI) resistance. * The AKE shall protect against identity misbinding attacks, when applicable. Note that the identity may be directly related to a public key such as for example the public key itself, a hash of the public key, or data unrelated to a key. * The AKE shall protect against reflection attacks, but need not protect against attacks when more than two parties legitimately share keys (cf. the Selfie attack on TLS 1.3) as that setting is out of scope. Moreover, it shall be possible for the receiving endpoint to detect a replayed AKE message. Furthermore, the endpoints shall be able to verify that the identity of the other endpoint is an acceptable identity that it is intended to authenticate to. (This requirement extends beyond the AKE in that the application must enable access to information about acceptable identities without compromising the overall lightweightness of the AKE.) As often is the case, it is expected that an AKE fulfilling these goals would have at least three flights of messages (with each flight potentially consisting of one or more messages, depending on the AKE design and the mapping to OSCORE). Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 2.4. Confidentiality The shared secret established by the AKE must be known only to the two authenticated endpoints. A passive network attacker should never learn any session keys, even if it knows both endpoints' long-term keys. An active attacker who has compromised the initiator or responder credential shall still not be able to compute past session keys (Perfect Forward Secrecy). These properties can be achieved e.g. with an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange. Perfect Forward Secrecy may alternatively be achieved with a nonce exchange followed by appropriately derived new session keys provided that state can be kept in the form of a session counter. Note that OSCORE specifies a method for session key update involving a nonce exchange (see Appendix B in [RFC8613]). The AKE shall provide a mechanism to use the output of one handshake to optimize future handshakes, e.g., by generating keying material which can be used to authenticate a future handshake, thus avoiding the need for public key authentication in that handshake. To mitigate against bad random number generators the AKE shall mandate randomness improvements such as [I-D.irtf-cfrg-randomness-improvements]. 2.5. Cryptographic Agility and Negotiation Integrity Motivated by long deployment lifetimes, the AKE is required to support cryptographic agility, including the modularity of COSE crypto algorithms and negotiation of preferred crypto algorithms for OSCORE and the AKE. * The protocol shall support both pre-shared key and asymmetric key authentication. PAKE and post-quantum key exchange is out of scope, but may be supported in a later version. * The protocol shall allow multiple elliptic curves for Diffie- Hellman operations and signature-based authentication. * The AKE shall support negotiation of all the COSE algorithms to be used in the AKE and in OSCORE. A successful negotiation shall result in the most preferred algorithms of one of the parties which are supported by the other. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 * The AKE may choose different sets of symmetric crypto algorithms (AEAD, MAC, etc.) for AKE and for OSCORE. In particular, the length of the MAC for the AKE may be required to be larger than for OSCORE. The AKE negotiation must provide strong integrity guarantees against active attackers. At the end of the AKE protocol, both endpoints must agree on both the crypto algorithms that were proposed and those that were chosen. In particular, the protocol must protect against downgrade attacks. 2.6. Identity Protection In general, it is necessary to transport identities as part of the AKE run in order to provide authentication of an entity not identified beforehand. In the case of constrained devices, the identity may contain sensitive information on the manufacturer of the device, the batch, default firmware version, etc. Protecting identifying information from passive and active attacks is important from a privacy point of view, but needs to be balanced with the other requirements, including security and lightweightness. For certain data we therefore need to make an exemption in order to obtain an efficient protocol. In the case of public key identities, the AKE is required to protect the identity of one of the peers against active attackers and the identity of the other peer against passive attackers. In case of a PSK identifier, this may be protected against passive attackers, for example with a key derived from a Diffie-Hellman shared secret at the earliest in flight 3. As a consequence, in order to authenticate the responder within the AKE, at least four protocol flights are needed in case of symmetric key authentication with identity protection. Considering the need to keep the number of round-trips at a minimum (see Section 2.10.4), unless there are other good reasons for having more than 3 flights, it is not required to protect the PSK identifier, and it may thus be sent in the first flight. Other identifying information that needs to be transported in plain text is cipher suites and connection identifiers. Encrypting crypto algorithms does not allow negotiation of cipher suite within 3 flights. Encryption of connection identifiers only works in asymmetric case and does not enable arbitrarily short identifiers (see Section 2.1). Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 2.7. Auxiliary Data In order to reduce round trips and the number of flights, and in some cases also streamline processing, certain security features may be integrated into the AKE by transporting auxiliary data together with the AKE messages. One example is the transport of third-party authorization information such as an access token or a voucher from initiator to responder or vice versa. Such a scheme could enable the party receiving the authorization information to make a decision about whether the party being authenticated is also authorized before the protocol is completed, and if not then discontinue the protocol before it is complete, thereby saving time, message processing and data transmission. This application can be further optimized by using an AKE with static DH keys [I-D.selander-ace-ake-authz]. Another example is the embedding of a certificate enrolment request or a newly issued certificate. The AKE must support the transport of such auxiliary data together with the protocol messages. Auxiliary data may contain privacy sensitive information. The auxiliary data must not violate the AKE security properties. The AKE needs to provide clear guidance on the level of security provided to auxiliary data at different stages of the protocol. For example, for a SIGMA-I AKE it is expected that the 3 flights will provide the following protection of the auxiliary data: * Auxiliary data in the first flight is unprotected * Auxiliary data in the second flight is confidentiality protected against passive attackers and integrity protected against active attackers * Auxiliary data in the third flight is confidentiality and integrity protected against active attackers 2.8. Extensibility It is desirable that the AKE supports some kind of extensibility, in particular, the ability to later include new AKE modes such as PAKE support. Note that by supporting COSE, the AKE can already support new algorithms, new certificate formats, ways to identify credentials, etc. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 The main objective with this work is to create a simple yet secure AKE. The AKE should avoid having multiple ways to express the same thing. When the underlying encodings offered by CBOR offer multiple possibility the AKE should be strongly opinioniated, and clearly specify which one will be used. While remaining extensible, the AKE should avoid optional mechanisms which introduce code paths that are less well tested. The AKE should avoid mechanisms where an initiator takes a guess at the policy, and when it receives a negative response, must guess, based upon what it has tried, what to do next. 2.9. Denial of Service The AKE shall protect against denial of service attacks on responder and initiator to the extent that the protocol supports lightweight deployments (see Section 2.10) and without duplicating the DoS mitigation of the underlying transport (see Section 2.1). Jamming attacks, cutting cables etc. leading to long term loss of availability may not be possible to mitigate, but an attacker temporarily injecting messages or disturbing the communication shall not have a similar impact. 2.10. Lightweight We target an AKE which is efficiently deployable in 6TiSCH multi-hop networks, LoRaWAN networks and NB-IoT networks. The desire is to optimize the AKE to be 'as lightweight as reasonably achievable' in these environments, where 'lightweight' refers to: * resource consumption, measured by bytes on the wire, wall-clock time and number of round trips to complete, or power consumption * the amount of new code required on end systems which already have an OSCORE stack These properties need to be considered in the context of the use of an existing CoAP/OSCORE stack in the targeted networks and technologies. Some properties are difficult to evaluate for a given protocol, for example, because they depend on the radio conditions or other simultaneous network traffic. Additionally, these properties are not independent. Therefore the properties listed here should be taken as input for identifying plausible protocol metrics that can be more easily measured and compared between protocols. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 Per 'bytes on the wire', it is desirable for the AKE messages to fit into the MTU size of these protocols; and if not possible, within as few frames as possible, since using multiple MTUs can have significant costs in terms of time and power. Note that the MTU size depends on radio technology and its characteristics, including data rates, number of hops, etc. Example benchmarks are given further down in this section. Per 'time', it is desirable for the AKE message exchange(s) to complete in a reasonable amount of time, both for a single uncongested exchange and when multiple exchanges are running in an interleaved fashion, like e.g. in a "network formation" setting when multiple devices connect for the first time. This latency may not be a linear function depending on congestion and the specific radio technology used. As these are relatively low data rate networks, the latency contribution due to computation is in general not expected to be dominant. Per 'round-trips', it is desirable that the number of completed request/response message exchanges required before the initiating endpoint can start sending protected traffic data is as small as possible, since this reduces completion time. See Section 2.10.4 for a discussion about the tradeoff between message size and number of flights. Per 'power', it is desirable for the transmission of AKE messages and crypto to draw as little power as possible. The best mechanism for doing so differs across radio technologies. For example, NB-IoT uses licensed spectrum and thus can transmit at higher power to improve coverage, making the transmitted byte count relatively more important than for other radio technologies. In other cases, the radio transmitter will be active for a full MTU frame regardless of how much of the frame is occupied by message content, which makes the byte count less sensitive for the power consumption as long as it fits into the MTU frame. The power consumption thus increases with AKE message size and the largest impact is on average under poor network conditions. Per 'new code', it is desirable to introduce as little new code as possible onto OSCORE-enabled devices to support this new AKE. These devices have on the order of 10s of kB of memory and 100 kB of storage on which an embedded OS; a COAP stack; CORE and AKE libraries; and target applications would run. It is expected that the majority of this space is available for actual application logic, as opposed to the support libraries. In a typical OSCORE implementation COSE encrypt and signature structures will be available, as will support for COSE algorithms relevant for IoT enabling the same algorithms as is used for OSCORE (e.g. COSE Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 algorithm no. 10 = CCM* used by 6TiSCH). The use of those, or CBOR or CoAP, would not add to the footprint. While the large variety of settings and capabilities of the devices and networks makes it challenging to produce exact values of some these dimensions, there are some key benchmarks that are tractable for security protocol engineering and which have a significant impact. 2.10.1. LoRaWAN Reflecting deployment reality as of now, we focus on the European regulation as described in ETSI EN 300 220. LoRaWAN employs unlicensed radio frequency bands in the 868 MHz ISM band. For LoRaWAN the most relevant metric is the Time-on-Air, which determines the period before the next communication can occur and also which can be used as an indicator to calculate energy consumption. LoRaWAN is legally required to use a duty cycle with values such as 0.1%, 1% and 10% depending on the sub-band that is being used, leading to a payload split into fragments interleaved with unavailable times. For Europe, the duty cycle is 1% (or smaller). Although there are exceptions from the use of duty cycle, the use of an AKE for providing end-to-end security on application layer needs to comply with the duty cycle. 2.10.1.1. Bytes on the wire LoRaWAN has a variable MTU depending on the Spreading Factor (SF). The higher the spreading factor, the higher distances can be achieved and/or better reception. If the coverage and distance allows it, with SF7 - corresponding to higher data rates - the maximum payload is 222 bytes. For a SF12 - and low data rates - the maximum payload is 51 bytes. The benchmark used here is Data Rates 0-2 corresponding to a packet size of 51 bytes [LoRaWAN]. The use of larger frame size depend on good radio conditions which are not always present. Some libraries/ providers only support 51-bytes packet size. 2.10.1.2. Time The time it takes to send a message over the air in LoRaWAN can be calculated as a function of the different parameters of the communication. These are the Spreading Factor (SF), the message size, the channel, bandwidth, coding rate, etc. An important feature of LoRaWAN is the duty cycle limitation due to the use of the ISM band. A duty cycle of 1% implies that the time to complete a fragmentation of the payload increases by at least 10,000%. This Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 limitation determines how long time the device will have to wait for next use, which encourages the reduction of the message size as much as possible. 2.10.1.3. Round trips and number of flights Considering the duty cycle of LoRaWAN and associated unavailable times, the round trips and number of LoRaWAN packets needs to be reduced as much as possible. 2.10.1.4. Power The calculation of the power consumption in LoRaWAN is dependent on several factors, such as the spreading factor used and the length of the messages sent, both having a clear dependency with the time it takes to transmit the messages. The communication model (inherent to the different LoRaWAN classes of devices) also has an impact on the energy consumption, but overall the Time-on-Air is an important indication of the performance. 2.10.2. 6TiSCH 6TiSCH operates in the 2.4 GHz unlicensed frequency band and uses hybrid Time Division/Frequency Division multiple access (TDMA/FDMA). Nodes in a 6TiSCH network form a mesh. The basic unit of communication, a cell, is uniquely defined by its time and frequency offset in the communication schedule matrix. Cells can be assigned for communication to a pair of nodes in the mesh and so be collision- free, or shared by multiple nodes, for example during network formation. In case of shared cells, some collision-resolution scheme such as slotted-Aloha is employed. Nodes exchange frames which are at most 127-bytes long, including the link-layer headers. To preserve energy, the schedule is typically computed in such a way that nodes switch on their radio below 1% of the time ("radio duty cycle"). A 6TiSCH mesh can be several hops deep. In typical use cases considered by the 6TiSCH working group, a network that is 2-4 hops deep is commonplace; a network which is more than 8 hops deep is not common. 2.10.2.1. Bytes on the wire Increasing the number of bytes on the wire in a protocol message has an important effect on the 6TiSCH network in case the fragmentation is triggered. More fragments contribute to congestion of shared cells (and concomitant error rates) in a non-linear way. The available size for key exchange messages depends on the topology of the network, whether the message is traveling uplink or downlink, Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 and other stack parameters. A key performance indicator for a 6TiSCH network is "network formation", i.e. the time it takes from switching on all devices, until the last device has executed the AKE and securely joined. As an example, given the size limit on the frames and taking into account the different headers (including link-layer security), if a 6TiSCH network is 5 hops deep, the maximum CoAP payload size to avoid fragmentation is 47/45 bytes (uplink/downlink) [AKE-for-6TiSCH]. 2.10.2.2. Time Given the slotted nature of 6TiSCH, the number of bytes in a frame has insignificant impact on latency, but the number of frames has. The relevant metric for studying AKE is the network formation time, which implies parallel AKE runs among nodes that are attempting to join the network. Network formation time directly affects the time installers need to spend on site at deployment time. 2.10.2.3. Round trips and number of flights Given the mesh nature of the 6TiSCH network, and given that each message may travel several hops before reaching its destination, it is highly desirable to minimize the number of round trips to reduce latency. 2.10.2.4. Power From the power consumption point of view, it is more favorable to send a small number of large frames than a larger number of short frames. 2.10.3. NB-IoT 3GPP has specified Narrow-Band IoT (NB-IoT) for support of infrequent data transmission via user plane and via control plane. NB-IoT is built on cellular licensed spectrum at low data rates for the purpose of supporting: * operations in extreme coverage conditions, * device battery life of 10 years or more, * low device complexity and cost, and * a high system capacity of millions of connected devices per square kilometer. NB-IoT achieves these design objectives by: Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 * Reduced baseband processing, memory and RF enabling low complexity device implementation. * A lightweight setup minimizing control signaling overhead to optimize power consumption. * In-band, guard-band, and stand-alone deployment enabling efficient use of spectrum and network infrastructure. 2.10.3.1. Bytes on the wire The number of bytes on the wire in a protocol message has a direct effect on the performance for NB-IoT. In contrast to LoRaWAN and 6TiSCH, the NB-IoT radio bearers are not characterized by a fixed sized PDU. Concatenation, segmentation and reassembly are part of the service provided by the NB-IoT radio layer. As a consequence, the byte count has a measurable impact on time and energy consumption for running the AKE. 2.10.3.2. Time Coverage significantly impacts the available bit rate and thereby the time for transmitting a message, and there is also a difference between downlink and uplink transmissions (see Section 2.10.3.4). The transmission time for a message is essentially proportional to the number of bytes. Since NB-IoT is operating in licensed spectrum, in contrast to e.g. LoRaWAN, the packets on the radio interface can be transmitted back- to-back, so the time before sending OSCORE protected data is limited by the number of round trips/flights of the AKE and not by a duty cycle. 2.10.3.3. Round trips and number of flights As indicated in Section 2.10.3.2, the number of frames and round- trips is one limiting factor for protocol completion time. 2.10.3.4. Power Since NB-IoT is operating in licensed spectrum, the device is allowed to transmit at a relatively high power, which has a large impact on the energy consumption. The benchmark for NB-IoT energy consumption is based on the same computational model as was used by 3GPP in the design of this radio layer [NB-IoT-battery-life-evaluation]. The device power consumption is assumed to be 500mW for transmission and 80mW for reception. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 Power consumption for "light sleep" (~ 3mW) and "deep sleep" (~ 0.015mW) are negligible in comparison. The bitrates (uplink/ downlink) are assumed to be 28/170 kbps for good coverage and 0,37/2,5 kbps for bad coverage. The results [AKE-for-NB-IoT] show a high per-byte energy consumption for uplink transmissions, in particular in bad coverage. Given that the application decides about the device being initiator or responder in the AKE, the protocol cannot be tailored for a particular message being uplink or downlink. To perform well in both kind of applications the overall number of bytes of the protocol needs to be as low as possible. 2.10.4. Discussion While "as small protocol messages as possible" does not lend itself to a sharp boundary threshold, "as few flights as possible" does and is relevant in all settings above. The penalty is high for not fitting into the frame sizes of 6TiSCH and LoRaWAN networks. Fragmentation is not defined within these technologies so requires fragmentation scheme on a higher layer in the stack. With fragmentation increases the number of frames per message, each with its associated overhead in terms of power consumption and latency. Additionally the probability for errors increases, which leads to retransmissions of frames or entire messages that in turn increases the power consumption and latency. There are trade-offs between "few messages" and "few frames"; if overhead is spread out over more messages such that each message fits into a particular frame this may reduce the overall power consumption. For example, with a frame size of 50 bytes, two 60-byte messages will fragment into 4 frames in total, whereas three 40-byte messages fragment into 3 frames in total. While it may be possible to engineer such a solution for a particular radio technology and signature algorithm, the benefits in terms of fewer flights/round trips in general and for NB-IoT in particular (see Section 2.10.3) are considered more important than optimizing for a specific scenario. Considering that an AKE protocol complying with these requirements is expected to have at least 3 messages, the optimal AKE has 3 messages and each message fits into as few frames as possible, ideally 1 frame per message. The difference between uplink and downlink performance should not be engineered into the protocol since it cannot be assumed that a particular protocol message will be sent uplink or downlink. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 2.10.5. AKE frequency One question that has been asked in the context of lightweightness is: - How often is the AKE executed? While it may be impossible to give a precise answer there are other perspectives to this question. 1. For some use cases, already one execution of the AKE is heavy, for example, because * there are a number of parallel executions of the AKE which loads down the network, such as in a network formation setting, or * the duty cycle makes the completion time long for even one run of the protocol. 2. If a device reboots it may not be able to recover the security context, e.g. due to lack of persistent storage, and is required to establish a new security context for which an AKE is preferred. Reboot frequency may be difficult to predict in general. 3. To limit the impact of a key compromise, BSI, NIST and ANSSI and other organizations recommend in other contexts frequent renewal of keys by means of Diffie-Hellman key exchange. This may be a symmetric key authenticated key exchange, where the symmetric key is obtained from a previous asymmetric key based run of the AKE. To summarize, even if it we are unable to give precise numbers for AKE frequency, a lightweight AKE: * reduces the time for network formation and AKE runs in challenging radio technologies, * allows devices to quickly re-establish security in case of reboots, and * enables support for recommendations of frequent key renewal. 3. Requirements Summary * The AKE must support PSK, RPK and certificate based authentication with PFS and crypto agility for AKE as well as OSCORE, have 3 flights and support transport over CoAP. It is required to support different schemes for transporting and identifying credentials. Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 * After the AKE run, the peers must be mutually authenticated, agree on a shared secret with PFS and good amount of randomness, peer identifiers (potentially short), and COSE algorithms to use. * The AKE must reuse CBOR, CoAP and COSE primitives and algorithms for low code complexity and to avoid duplicate maintenance of a combined OSCORE and AKE implementation. * The messages should be as small as reasonably achievable. The messages shall fit into as few LoRaWAN packets and 6TiSCH frames as possible. 4. Security Considerations This document compiles the requirements for an AKE and provides some related security considerations. The AKE must provide the security properties expected of IETF protocols, e.g., providing mutual authentication, confidentiality, and negotiation integrity as is further detailed in the requirements. 5. IANA Considerations None. Acknowledgments The authors want to thank Richard Barnes, Karthik Bhargavan, Ivaylo Petrov, Eric Rescorla, Michael Richardson, and Claes Tidestav for providing valuable input. Informative References [RFC7228] Bormann, C., Ersue, M., and A. Keranen, "Terminology for Constrained-Node Networks", RFC 7228, DOI 10.17487/RFC7228, May 2014, . [RFC7967] Bhattacharyya, A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Pal, A., and T. Bose, "Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Option for No Server Response", RFC 7967, DOI 10.17487/RFC7967, August 2016, . [RFC8613] Selander, G., Mattsson, J., Palombini, F., and L. Seitz, "Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE)", RFC 8613, DOI 10.17487/RFC8613, July 2019, . Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 18] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 [I-D.ietf-6tisch-minimal-security] Vucinic, M., Simon, J., Pister, K., and M. Richardson, "Constrained Join Protocol (CoJP) for 6TiSCH", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal- security-15, 10 December 2019, . [I-D.ietf-lpwan-coap-static-context-hc] Minaburo, A., Toutain, L., and R. Andreasen, "LPWAN Static Context Header Compression (SCHC) for CoAP", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-lpwan-coap-static- context-hc-12, 10 December 2019, . [I-D.ietf-cose-x509] Schaad, J., "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Headers for carrying and referencing X.509 certificates", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-cose-x509-05, 4 November 2019, . [I-D.ietf-core-echo-request-tag] Amsuess, C., Mattsson, J., and G. Selander, "CoAP: Echo, Request-Tag, and Token Processing", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-core-echo-request-tag-08, 4 November 2019, . [I-D.irtf-cfrg-randomness-improvements] Cremers, C., Garratt, L., Smyshlyaev, S., Sullivan, N., and C. Wood, "Randomness Improvements for Security Protocols", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-irtf- cfrg-randomness-improvements-09, 27 January 2020, . [I-D.selander-ace-ake-authz] Selander, G., Mattsson, J., Vucinic, M., and M. Richardson, "Lightweight Authorization for Authenticated Key Exchange.", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft- selander-ace-ake-authz-00, 6 February 2020, . [AKE-for-6TiSCH] "AKE for 6TiSCH", March 2019, Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 19] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 . [AKE-for-NB-IoT] "AKE for NB-IoT", March 2019, . [NB-IoT-battery-life-evaluation] "On mMTC, NB-IoT and eMTC battery life evaluation", January 2017, . [HKDF] Krawczyk, H., "Cryptographic Extraction and Key Derivation: The HKDF Scheme", May 2010, . [LwM2M] "OMA SpecWorks LwM2M", August 2018, . [Fairhair] "Security Architecture for the Internet of Things (IoT) in Commercial Buildings, Fairhair Alliance white paper", March 2018, . [LoRaWAN] "LoRaWAN Regional Parameters v1.0.2rB", February 2017, . Authors' Addresses Malisa Vucinic Inria Email: malisa.vucinic@inria.fr Goeran Selander Ericsson AB Email: goran.selander@ericsson.com Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Reqs-LAKE-for-OSCORE February 2020 John Preuss Mattsson Ericsson AB Email: john.mattsson@ericsson.com Dan Garcia-Carrillo Odin Solutions S.L. Email: dgarcia@odins.es Vucinic, et al. Expires 22 August 2020 [Page 21]