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Remove HKDF-Extract/Expand

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Being resolved in https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/issues/5784

Signed-off-by: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <manuel.pegourie-gonnard@arm.com>
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Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard 2022-05-11 13:21:39 +02:00 committed by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
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@ -323,47 +323,7 @@ probably not acceptable.
in the meantime. Such an extension seems inconvenient and not motivated by
strong security arguments, so it's unclear whether it would be accepted.
HKDF: Expand not exposed on its own (TLS 1.3)
---------------------------------------------
The HKDF function uses an Extract-then-Expand approach, that is:
HKDF(x, ...) = HKDF-Expand(HKDF-Extract(x, ...), ...)
Only the full HKDF function is safe in general, however there are cases when
one can safely use the individual Extract and Expand; the TLS 1.3 key
schedule does so. Specifically, looking at the [hierarchy of secrets][13hs]
is seems that Expand and Extract are always chained, so that this hierarchy
can be implemented using only the full HKDF. However, looking at the
derivation of traffic keys (7.3) and the update mechanism (7.2) it appears
that calls to HKDF-Expand are iterated without any intermediated call to
HKDF-Extract : that is, the traffic keys are computed as
HKDF-Expand(HKDF-Expand(HKDF-Extract(...)))
(with possibly more than two Expands in a row with update).
[13hs]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446#page-93
For now (early 2022), we've worked around that by re-implementing HKDF
in `ssl_tls13_keys.c` based on the `psa_mac_` APIs (for HMAC).
In the long term, it is desirable to extend the PSA API. See
https://github.com/ARM-software/psa-crypto-api/issues/539
Limitations relevant for G2 (isolation of long-term secrets)
============================================================
HKDF: Expand not exposed on its own (TLS 1.3)
---------------------------------------------
See the section with the same name in the G1 part above for background.
The work-around mentioned there works well enough just for acceleration, but
is not sufficient for key isolation or generally proper key management (it
requires marking keys are usable for HMAC while they should only be used for
key derivation).
The obvious long-term solution is to make HKDF-Expand available as a new KDF
(in addition to the full HKDF) in PSA (with appropriate warnings in the
documentation).
Currently none.