Network Working Group Y. Nir Internet-Draft Check Point Intended status: Standards Track April 8, 2016 Expires: October 10, 2016 Using Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in the Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) draft-nir-ipsecme-eddsa-00 Abstract This document describes the use of the Edwards-curve digital signature algorithm in the IKEv2 protocol. 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 http://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 October 10, 2016. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2016 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 (http://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. Nir Expires October 10, 2016 [Page 1] Internet-Draft EdDSA in IKEv2 April 2016 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. The "Identity" Hash Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. Introduction The Internet Key Exchange protocol [RFC7296] can use arbitrary signature algorithms as described in [RFC7427]. The latter RFC defines the SIGNATURE_HASH_ALGORITHMS notification where each side of the IKE negotiation lists its supported hash algorithms. This assumes that all signature schemes involve a hashing phase before a signature phase, which makes sense because most signature algorithms either cannot sign messages bigger than their key or truncate messages bigger than their key. [I.D-eddsa] defines signature algorithms that do not require pre- hashing of the message. Unlike other methods, these signature algorithms accept arbitrary-sized messages, so no pre-hashing is required. These methods are called Ed25519 and Ed448, which respectively use the Edwards 25519 and the Edwards 448 ("Goldilocks") curves. Although that document also defines pre-hashed versions of these algorithm, those versions are not recommended for protocols where the entire to-be-signed message is available at once. [I.D-eddsa] defines the binary format of the signatures that should be used in the "Signature Value" field of the Authentication Data Format in section 3. [I.D-pkix-newcurves] defined the OIDs for these two signature methods. To signal within IKE that no hashing needs to be done. A new value has to be signalled in the SIGNATURE_HASH_ALGORITHMS notification, one that indicates that no hashing is performed. 1.1. Conventions Used in This Document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. Nir Expires October 10, 2016 [Page 2] Internet-Draft EdDSA in IKEv2 April 2016 2. The "Identity" Hash Identifier This document defines a new value called "Identity" (value TBA by IANA) in the hash algorithm registry for use in the SIGNATURE_HASH_ALGORITHMS notification. Inserting this value into the notification indicates that the receiver supports at least one signature algorithm that accepts arbitrary-sized messages such as Ed25519 and Ed448. Ed25519 and Ed448 are only defined with the Identity hash, and MUST NOT be sent to a receiver that has not indicated support for the "Identity" hash. The pre-hashed versions of Ed25519 and Ed448 (Ed25519ph and Ed448ph respectively) SHOULD NOT be used in IKE. 3. Security Considerations The new "Identity" value is needed only for signature algorithms that accept an arbitrary-sized input. It MUST NOT be used if none of the supported algorithms has this property. OTOH there is no good reason to hash where the signature algorithm does not require it (or does it internally), so the "Identity" value SHOULD be the only one used if all of the supported signature algorithms have this property. 4. IANA Considerations IANA is requested to assign a new value from the "IKEv2 Hash Algorithms" registry with name "Identity" and this document as reference. 5. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC7296] Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., Eronen, P., and T. Kivinen, "Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)", STD 79, RFC 7296, DOI 10.17487/RFC7296, October 2014, . [RFC7427] Kivinen, T. and J. Snyder, "Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 7427, DOI 10.17487/RFC7427, January 2015, . Nir Expires October 10, 2016 [Page 3] Internet-Draft EdDSA in IKEv2 April 2016 [I.D-eddsa] Josefsson, S. and I. Liusvaara, "Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)", March 2016, . [I.D-pkix-newcurves] Josefsson, S., "Using Curve25519 and Curve448 in PKIX", March 2016, . Author's Address Yoav Nir Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 5 Hasolelim st. Tel Aviv 6789735 Israel EMail: ynir.ietf@gmail.com Nir Expires October 10, 2016 [Page 4]