<?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <!DOCTYPE rfc SYSTEM"rfc2629.dtd" [ <!ENTITY RFC2119 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC6347 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6347.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC7250 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7250.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC7918 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7918.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC7924 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7924.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC8094 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8094.xml"> <!ENTITY RFC8174 SYSTEM "http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8174.xml"> ]> <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='rfc2629.xslt' ?> <?rfc toc="yes"?> <?rfc tocdepth="2"?> <?rfc symrefs="yes"?> <?rfc sortrefs="yes" ?> <?rfc compact="no" ?>"rfc2629-xhtml.ent"> <rfc xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" category="std" obsoletes="" number="8968" docName="draft-ietf-babel-dtls-10"ipr="trust200902">ipr="trust200902" updates="" submissionType="IETF" consensus="true" xml:lang="en" tocInclude="true" tocDepth="2" symRefs="true" sortRefs="true" version="3"> <!-- xml2rfc v2v3 conversion 3.0.0 --> <front> <title abbrev="Babel over DTLS">Babel Routing Protocol over Datagram Transport Layer Security</title> <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="8968"/> <author fullname="AntoninDecimo"Décimo" initials="A."surname="Decimo">surname="Décimo"> <organization>IRIF, University of Paris-Diderot</organization> <address> <postal><street></street><city>Paris</city><region></region> <code></code><country>France</country> </postal> <email>antonin.decimo@gmail.com</email> </address> </author> <authorfullname='David Schinazi' surname='Schinazi' initials='D.'>fullname="David Schinazi" surname="Schinazi" initials="D."> <organization>Google LLC</organization> <address> <postal> <street>1600 Amphitheatre Parkway</street> <city>Mountain View</city><region>California</region><region>CA</region> <code>94043</code><country>USA</country><country>United States of America</country> </postal> <email>dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com</email> </address> </author> <author fullname="Juliusz Chroboczek" initials="J." surname="Chroboczek"> <organization>IRIF, University of Paris-Diderot</organization> <address> <postal> <street>Case 7014</street><city>75205 Paris Cedex<city>Paris CEDEX 13</city><region></region> <code></code><code>75205</code> <country>France</country> </postal> <email>jch@irif.fr</email> </address> </author><date/><date month="January" year="2021"/> <abstract> <t>The Babel Routing Protocol does not contain any means to authenticate neighbours or provide integrity or confidentiality for messages sent between them. This document specifies a mechanism to ensure theseproperties,properties using Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS).</t> </abstract> </front> <middle> <sectiontitle="Introduction">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Introduction</name> <t>The BabelRouting Protocolrouting protocol <xreftarget="RFC6126bis"/>target="RFC8966" format="default"/> does not contain any means to authenticate neighbours or protect messages sent between them. Because of this, an attacker is able to send maliciously crafted Babel messageswhichthat could lead a network to route traffic to an attacker or to an under-resourcedtargettarget, causing denial of service. This document specifies a mechanism to prevent suchattacks,attacks using Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) <xreftarget="RFC6347"/>.</t>target="RFC6347" format="default"/>.</t> <sectiontitle="Specificationnumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Specification ofRequirements"> <t>TheRequirements</name> <t> The key words"MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY","<bcp14>MUST</bcp14>", "<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14>", "<bcp14>REQUIRED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHALL NOT</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14>", "<bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14>", "<bcp14>RECOMMENDED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>NOT RECOMMENDED</bcp14>", "<bcp14>MAY</bcp14>", and"OPTIONAL""<bcp14>OPTIONAL</bcp14>" in this document are to be interpreted as described inBCP 14BCP 14 <xref target="RFC2119"/> <xref target="RFC8174"/> when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shownhere.</t>here. </t> </section> <sectiontitle="Applicability">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Applicability</name> <t>The protocol described in this document protects Babel packets with DTLS. As such, it inherits the features offered by DTLS, notably authentication, integrity, optional replay protection,confidentialityconfidentiality, and asymmetric keying. It is therefore expected to be applicable in a wide range of environments.</t> <t>There exists another mechanism for securing Babel, namelyBabel HMACMessage Authentication Code (MAC) authentication for Babel (Babel-MAC) <xreftarget="BABEL-HMAC"/>. HMACtarget="RFC8967" format="default"/>. Babel-MAC only offers basic features, namely authentication,integrityintegrity, and replay protection with a small number of symmetric keys. A comparison of Babel security mechanisms and their applicability can be found in <xreftarget="RFC6126bis"/>.</t>target="RFC8966" format="default"/>.</t> <t>Note that Babel over DTLS provides a single authentication domain, meaning that all nodes that have the right credentials can convey any and all routing information.</t> <t>DTLS supports several mechanisms by which nodes can identify themselves and prove possession of secrets tied to these identities. This document does not prescribe which of these mechanisms to use; details of identity management are left to deployment profiles of Babel over DTLS.</t> </section> </section> <sectiontitle="Operationnumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Operation of theProtocol">Protocol</name> <t>Babel over DTLS requires some changes to how Babel operates. First, DTLS is a client-server protocol, while Babel is a peer-to-peer protocol. Second, DTLS can only protect unicast communication, while Babel packets can be sent to both unicast and multicast destinations.</t> <sectiontitle="DTLSnumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>DTLS ConnectionInitiation">Initiation</name> <t>Babel over DTLS operates on a different port than unencrypted Babel. All Babel over DTLS nodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> act as DTLS servers on a given UDPport,port andMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> listen for unencrypted Babel traffic on another UDP port, whichMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> be distinct from the first one. The default port for Babel over DTLS is registered with IANA as the "babel-dtls" port (UDP portTBD,6699, see <xreftarget="iana_considerations"/>),target="iana_considerations" format="default"/>), and the port exchanging unencrypted Babel traffic is registered as the "babel" port (UDP port 6696, seeSection 5 of<xreftarget="RFC6126bis"/>).</t>target="RFC8966" sectionFormat="of" section="5"/>).</t> <t>When a Babel node discovers a new neighbour (generally by receiving an unencrypted multicast Babel packet), it compares the neighbour's IP address with its own, using network byte ordering. If a node's address is lower than the recently discovered neighbour's address, it acts as a client and connects to the neighbour. In other words, the node with the lowest address is the DTLS client for this pairwise relationship. As an example, fe80::1:2 is considered lower than fe80::2:1.</t> <t>The node acting as DTLS client initiates its DTLS connection from an ephemeral UDP port. NodesSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> ensure that new client DTLS connections use different ephemeral ports from recently used connections to allow servers to differentiate between the new and old DTLS connections. Alternatively, nodes could use DTLS connection identifiers <xreftarget="DTLS-CID"/>target="I-D.ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id" format="default"/> as a higher-entropy mechanism to distinguish between connections.</t> <t>When a node receives a new DTLS connection, itMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> verify that the source IP address is either an IPv6 link-local address or an IPv4 address belonging to the local network; if it is neither, itMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> reject the connection. Nodes use mutual authentication (authenticating both client and server); clientsMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> authenticate servers and serversMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> authenticate clients. ImplementationsMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> support authenticating peers against a local store of credentials. If either node fails to authenticate its peer against its local policy, itMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> abort the DTLS handshake. The guidance given in <xreftarget="BCP195"/> MUSTtarget="BCP195" format="default"/> <bcp14>MUST</bcp14> be followed to avoid attacks on DTLS. Additionally, nodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> only negotiate DTLS version 1.2 or higher. NodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> use DTLS replay protection to prevent attackers from replaying stale information. NodesSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> drop packets that have been reordered by more than two IHU (I Heard You) intervals, to avoid letting attackers make stale information last longer. If a node receives a new DTLS connection from a neighbour to whom it already has a connection, the nodeMUST NOT<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14> discard the older connection until it has completed the handshake of the new one and validated the identity of the peer.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Protocol Encoding">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Protocol Encoding</name> <t>Babel over DTLS sends all unicast Babel packets protected by DTLS. The entire Babel packet, from the Magic byte at the start of the Babel header to the last byte of the Babel packet trailer, is sent protected by DTLS.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Transmission">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Transmission</name> <t>When sending packets, Babel over DTLS nodesMUST NOT<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14> send any TLVs over the unprotected "babel" port, with the exception of Hello TLVs without the Unicast flag set. Babel over DTLS nodesMUST NOT<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14> send any unprotected unicast packets. This ensures the confidentiality of the information sent in Babel packets (e.g., the network topology) by only sending it encrypted by DTLS. Unless some out-of-band neighbour discovery mechanism is available, nodesSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> periodically send unprotectedmulticastMulticast Hellos to ensure discovery of new neighbours. In order to maintain bidirectional reachability, nodes can either rely entirely on unprotectedmulticastMulticast Hellos, or send protectedunicastUnicast Hellos in addition to themulticastMulticast Hellos.</t> <t>Since Babel over DTLS only protects unicast packets, implementors may implement Babel over DTLS by modifying an implementation of Babel without DTLSsupport,support and replacing any TLV previously sent over multicast with a separate TLV sent over unicast for each neighbour. TLVs previously sent over multicast can be replaced with the same contents over unicast, with the exception of Hellos as described above. Some implementations could also change the contents of IHU TLVs when converting to unicast in order to remove redundant information.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Reception">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Reception</name> <t>Babel over DTLS nodes can receive Babel packets either protected over a DTLSconnection,connection or unprotected directly over the "babel" port. To ensure the security properties of this mechanism, unprotected packets are treated differently. NodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> silently ignore any unprotected packet sent over unicast. When parsing an unprotected packet, a nodeMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> silently ignore all TLVs that are not of type Hello. NodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> also silently ignore any unprotected Hello with the Unicast flag set. Note that receiving an unprotected packet can still be used to discover new neighbours, even when all TLVs in that packet are silently ignored.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Neighbour table entry">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Neighbour Table Entry</name> <t>It isRECOMMENDED<bcp14>RECOMMENDED</bcp14> for nodes to associate the state of their DTLS connection with their neighbour table. When a neighbour entry is flushed from the neighbour table(Appendix A of <xref target="RFC6126bis"/>),(<xref target="RFC8966" section="A" sectionFormat="of" format="default"/>), its associated DTLS stateSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> be discarded. The nodeSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> send a DTLS close_notify alert to the neighbour if it believes the link is still viable.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Simultaneous operationnumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Simultaneous Operation ofbothBabel over DTLS andunprotectedUnprotected Babel on aNode">Node</name> <t>ImplementationsMAY<bcp14>MAY</bcp14> implement both Babel over DTLS and unprotected Babel. Additionally, a nodeMAY<bcp14>MAY</bcp14> simultaneously run both Babel over DTLS and unprotected Babel. However, a node running bothMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> ensure that it runs them on separate interfaces, as the security properties of Babel over DTLS rely onnot acceptingignoring unprotected Babel packets (other thanmulticastMulticast Hellos). An implementationMAY<bcp14>MAY</bcp14> offer configuration options to allow unprotected Babel on some interfaces but notothers; thisothers, which effectively gives nodes on that interface the same access as authenticatednodes, and SHOULD NOTnodes; however, this <bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14> be done unless that interface has a mechanism to authenticate nodes at a lower layer (e.g., IPsec).</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Simultaneous operationnumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Simultaneous Operation ofbothBabel over DTLS andunprotectedUnprotected Babel on aNetwork">Network</name> <t>If Babel over DTLS and unprotected Babel are both operated on the same network, the Babel over DTLS implementation will receive unprotectedmulticastMulticast Hellos and attempt to initiate a DTLS connection. These connection attempts can be sent to nodes that only run unprotected Babel, who will not respond. Babel over DTLS implementationsSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> therefore rate-limit their DTLS connection attempts to avoid causing undue load on the network.</t> </section> </section> <sectiontitle="Interfacenumbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Interface Maximum Transmission UnitIssues">Issues</name> <t>Compared to unprotected Babel, DTLS adds header, authenticationtagtag, and possibly block-size padding overhead to every packet. This reduces the size of the Babel payload that can be carried. This document does not relax the packet size requirements inSection 4 of<xreftarget="RFC6126bis"/>,target="RFC8966" sectionFormat="of" section="4"/> but recommends that DTLS overhead be taken into account when computing maximum packet size.</t> <t> More precisely, nodesSHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> compute the overhead of DTLS depending on the ciphersuites inuse,use andSHOULD NOT<bcp14>SHOULD NOT</bcp14> send Babel packets larger than the interface maximum transmission unit (MTU) minus the overhead of IP,UDPUDP, and DTLS. NodesMUST NOT<bcp14>MUST NOT</bcp14> send Babel packets larger than the attached interface's MTU adjusted for known lower-layer headers (at least UDP and IP) or 512 octets, whichever is larger, but not exceeding2^162<sup>16</sup> - 1 adjusted for lower-layer headers. Every Babel speakerMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> be able to receive packets that are as large as any attached interface's MTU adjusted for UDP and IP headers or 512 octets, whichever is larger. Note that this requirement on reception does not take into account the overhead of DTLS because the peer may not have the ability to compute the overhead ofDTLSDTLS, and the packet may be fragmented by lower layers.</t> <t>Note that distinct DTLS connections can use different ciphers, which can have different amounts of per-packet overhead. Therefore, the MTU to one neighbour can be different from the MTU to another neighbour on the same link.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="IANA Considerations" anchor="iana_considerations"> <t>If this document is approved, IANA is requested to registeranchor="iana_considerations" numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>IANA Considerations</name> <t>IANA has registered a UDP port number, called "babel-dtls", for use by Babel overDTLS. Details of the request to IANA are as follows: <list style="symbols"> <t>Assignee: IESG, iesg@ietf.org</t> <t>Contact Person: IETF Chair, chair@ietf.org</t> <t>Transport Protocols:DTLS: </t> <ul empty="true"><li> <dl spacing="normal"> <dt>Service Name:</dt><dd> babel-dtls</dd> <dt>Port Number:</dt><dd> 6699</dd> <dt>Transport Protocols:</dt><dd> UDPonly</t> <t>Service Code: None</t> <t>Service Name: babel-dtls</t> <t>Desired Port Number: 6699</t> <t>Description:only</dd> <dt>Description:</dt><dd> Babel Routing Protocol overDTLS</t> <t>Reference: This document</t> <t>Defined TXT Keys: None</t> </list> </t>DTLS</dd> <dt>Assignee:</dt><dd> IESG, iesg@ietf.org</dd> <dt>Contact:</dt><dd> IETF Chair, chair@ietf.org</dd> <dt>Reference:</dt><dd> RFC 8968</dd> <dt>Service Code:</dt><dd> None</dd> </dl> </li> </ul> </section> <sectiontitle="Security Considerations">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Security Considerations</name> <t>A malicious client might attempt to perform a high number of DTLS handshakes with a server. As the clients are not uniquely identified by the protocol until the handshake completes and can be obfuscated with IPv6 temporary addresses, a server needs to mitigate the impact of such an attack. Note that attackers might attempt to keep in-progress handshakes open for as long as possible by using variants on the attack commonly known as Slowloris <xreftarget="SLOWLORIS"/>.target="SLOWLORIS" format="default"/>. Mitigating these attacks might involveratelimiting the rate of handshakes from a given subnet or more advanced denial of service avoidance techniques beyond the scope of this document.</t> <t>Babel over DTLS allows sendingmulticastMulticast Hellos unprotected; attackers can therefore tamper with them. For example, an attacker could send erroneous values for the Seqno and Interval fields, causing bidirectional reachability detection to fail. While implementationsMAY<bcp14>MAY</bcp14> usemulticastMulticast Hellos for link quality estimation, theySHOULD<bcp14>SHOULD</bcp14> also emit protectedunicastUnicast Hellos to prevent this class of denial-of-service attack.</t> <t>While DTLS provides protection against an attacker that replays valid packets, DTLS is not able to detect when an active on-path attacker intercepts valid packets and resends them at a later time. This attack could be used to make a node believe it has bidirectional reachability to a neighbour even though that neighbour has disconnected from the network. To prevent this attack, nodesMUST<bcp14>MUST</bcp14> discard the DTLS state associated with a neighbour after a finite time of not receiving valid DTLS packets. This can be implemented by, for example, discarding a neighbour's DTLS state when its associated IHU timer fires. Note that relying solely on the receipt of Hellos is not sufficient asmulticastMulticast Hellos are sent unprotected. Additionally, an attacker could save some packets and replay them later in hopes of propagating stale routing information at a later time. This can be mitigated by discarding received packets that have been reordered by more than two IHU intervals.</t> </section> </middle> <back><references title="Normative References"> &RFC2119; &RFC6347;<displayreference target="I-D.ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id" to="DTLS-CID"/> <references> <name>References</name> <references> <name>Normative References</name> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.2119.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.6347.xml"/> <referenceanchor="BCP195" target="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp195">anchor='BCP195' target='https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp195'> <front><title> Recommendations<title>Recommendations for Secure Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security(DTLS) </title>(DTLS)</title> <authorinitials="Y." surname="Sheffer" fullname="Y. Sheffer"> <organization/> </author>initials='Y.' surname='Sheffer' fullname='Y. Sheffer'><organization /></author> <authorinitials="R." surname="Holz" fullname="R. Holz"> <organization/> </author>initials='R.' surname='Holz' fullname='R. Holz'><organization /></author> <authorinitials="P." surname="Saint-Andre" fullname="P. Saint-Andre"> <organization/> </author>initials='P.' surname='Saint-Andre' fullname='P. Saint-Andre'><organization /></author> <dateyear="2015" month="May"/> <abstract> <t> Transportyear='2015' month='May' /> <abstract><t>Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) are widely used to protect data exchanged over application protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, IMAP, POP, SIP, and XMPP. Over the last few years, several serious attacks on TLS have emerged, including attacks on its most commonly used cipher suites and their modes of operation. This document provides recommendations for improving the security of deployed services that use TLS and DTLS. The recommendations are applicable to the majority of usecases. </t> </abstract>cases.</t></abstract> </front> <seriesInfoname="BCP" value="195"/>name='BCP' value='195'/> <seriesInfoname="RFC" value="7525"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC7525"/>name='RFC' value='7525'/> </reference>&RFC8174;<xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8174.xml"/> <referenceanchor="RFC6126bis"><front>anchor="RFC8966" target='https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8966'> <front> <title>The Babel Routing Protocol</title> <author fullname="Juliusz Chroboczek" initials="J." surname="Chroboczek"/> <author fullname="David Schinazi" initials="D." surname="Schinazi"/> <datemonth="February" year="2020"/></front>month="January" year="2021"/> </front> <seriesInfoname="Internet Draft" value="draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-17"/> </reference> </references> <references title="Informative References"> &RFC7250; &RFC7918; &RFC7924; &RFC8094; <reference anchor="BABEL-HMAC"><front> <title>Babel Cryptographic Authentication</title> <author fullname="Clara Do" initials="C." surname="Do"/> <author fullname="Weronika Kolodziejak" initials="W." surname="Kolodziejak"/> <author fullname="Juliusz Chroboczek" initials="J." surname="Chroboczek"/> <date month="August" year="2019"/></front>name="RFC" value="8966"/> <seriesInfoname="Internet Draft" value="draft-ietf-babel-hmac-10"/>name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8966"/> </reference> </references> <references> <name>Informative References</name> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7250.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7918.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.7924.xml"/> <xi:include href="https://xml2rfc.ietf.org/public/rfc/bibxml/reference.RFC.8094.xml"/> <referenceanchor="DTLS-CID"><front> <title>Connection Identifiersanchor='RFC8967' target='https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8967'> <front> <title>MAC Authentication forDTLS 1.2</title> <author fullname="Eric Rescorla" initials="E." surname="Rescorla"/>the Babel Routing Protocol</title> <authorfullname="Hannes Tschofenig" initials="H." surname="Tschofenig"/>initials='C' surname='Dô' fullname='Clara Dô'> <organization /> </author> <authorfullname="Thomas Fossati" initials="T." surname="Fossati"/>initials='W' surname='Kolodziejak' fullname='Weronika Kolodziejak'> <organization /> </author> <authorfullname="Tobias Gondrom" initials="T." surname="Gondrom"/>initials='J' surname='Chroboczek' fullname='Juliusz Chroboczek'> <organization /> </author> <datemonth="October" year="2019"/></front>month='January' year='2021' /> </front> <seriesInfoname="Internet Draft" value="draft-ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id-07"/>name="RFC" value="8967"/> <seriesInfo name="DOI" value="10.17487/RFC8967"/> </reference> <xi:include href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bibxml3/reference.I-D.ietf-tls-dtls-connection-id.xml"/> <reference anchor="SLOWLORIS"target="https://web.archive.org/web/20150315054838/http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/"><front> <title>Welcome to Slowloris...</title>target="https://web.archive.org/web/20150315054838/http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/"> <front> <title>Slowloris HTTP DoS</title> <author fullname="RSnake Hansen" initials="R." surname="Hansen"/> <date month="June"year="2009"/></front>year="2009"/> </front> </reference> </references> </references> <sectiontitle="Performance Considerations">numbered="true" toc="default"> <name>Performance Considerations</name> <t>To reduce the number of octets taken by the DTLS handshake, especially the size of the certificate in the ServerHello (which can be several kilobytes), Babel peers can use raw public keys <xreftarget="RFC7250"/>target="RFC7250" format="default"/> or the Cached Information Extension <xreftarget="RFC7924"/>.target="RFC7924" format="default"/>. The Cached Information Extension avoids transmitting the server's certificate and certificate chain if the client has cached that information from a previous TLS handshake. TLS False Start <xreftarget="RFC7918"/>target="RFC7918" format="default"/> can reduce round trips by allowing the TLS second flight of messages (ChangeCipherSpec) to also contain the (encrypted) Babel packet.</t> </section> <sectiontitle="Acknowledgments">numbered="false" toc="default"> <name>Acknowledgments</name> <t>The authors would like to thankRoman Danyliw, Donald Eastlake, Thomas Fossati, Benjamin Kaduk, Gabriel Kerneis, Mirja Kuehlewind, Antoni Przygienda, Henning Rogge, Dan Romascanu, Barbara Stark, Markus Stenberg, Dave Taht, Martin Thomson, Sean Turner and Martin Vigoureux<contact fullname="Roman Danyliw"/>, <contact fullname="Donald Eastlake"/>, <contact fullname="Thomas Fossati"/>, <contact fullname="Benjamin Kaduk"/>, <contact fullname="Gabriel Kerneis"/>, <contact fullname="Mirja Kühlewind"/>, <contact fullname="Antoni Przygienda"/>, <contact fullname="Henning Rogge"/>, <contact fullname="Dan Romascanu"/>, <contact fullname="Barbara Stark"/>, <contact fullname="Markus Stenberg"/>, <contact fullname="Dave Taht"/>, <contact fullname="Martin Thomson"/>, <contact fullname="Sean Turner"/>, and <contact fullname="Martin Vigoureux"/> for their input and contributions. The performance considerations in this document were inspired from the ones for DNS over DTLS <xreftarget="RFC8094"/>.</t>target="RFC8094" format="default"/>.</t> </section> </back> </rfc>