| Network Working Group | D. Zhang |
| Internet-Draft | Huawei |
| Intended status: Experimental | D. Gillmor |
| Expires: June 26, 2015 | CMRG |
| D. He | |
| Huawei | |
| December 23, 2014 |
CT for Binary Codes
draft-zhang-trans-ct-binary-codes-01
This document proposes a solution to use CT for publishing softwares/binary codes and their signatuers.
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Digital signatures have been widely used in software distributions to demonstrate the authenticity of softwares. Through verifying signatures, end users can could ensure that the softwares they got are provided by legal organizations and never modified during the delivery. If an end user does not have a direct trust relationship with the software provider, an authentication chain need to be generated from the key used for generating the signature to a trust anchor that the user trusts. That is why many signature mechanisms for software distribution are based on PKI.
However, signatures cannot prevent a software developer from distributing softwares with customized backdoors/drawbacks. In some circumstances, it may be hard for a user to detect the differences between the software it got and the software provided to other users.
This draft describe a mechanism to extend Certificate Transparency specified in [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis] to support logging binary codes. A software provider can publish its softwares (or digests of binary codes in the cases the softwares are non-trival) to one or more logs. Therefore, a user can easily detect the customized backdoors through monitor the log entries.
In this mechanism, after a section of binary codes is published to a log, the log will return a ticket (called Signed Certificate Timestamp (SCT) in this case) to the software provider. The software without the ticket will not be trusted even it is associated with a proper signature. This approach will force providers to publish their binary codes to logs.
The introduction of cryptographic components of CT is in Section 2 of [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis]. When applying CT for binary codes, a log is a single, ever-growing, append-only Merkle Tree of DS RRs.
The disclosed documents have raised the concerns of people on the vulnerability of the network devices to the passive attacks performed by NSA or other organizations. Some vendors have met problems in the abroad markets because their products are suspected to have customized backdoors for adversaries to perform attacks. It is desired for vendors to publish the design details of the products and provide sufficient functions for clients to check whether certain hardware or software of a device has been improperly modified. There are various techniques that could be used for this purpose. One way is to force a vendor to publish the binary codes of its firmwares. Therefore, customers can easily detect whether the vendor is releasing the same firmware to everyone. In addition, the binary transparency, customer will have more confidence on the quality of firmwares. Since the same codes are used by different customers all over the world, the drawbacks in firmwares will be easier to be detected.
Ben suggested to us CT for publishing FreeBSD. Can you contribute some ideas here?
A developer of a sfotware can submit the signed software (or the digest of the software to save space) to any preferred logs before distributing it. In order to enable attribution of each logged RR to its issuer, the log SHALL publish a list of certificates to construct an authentication chain connecting the trust anchor and the certfiicate used to sign the software.
Logs MUST verify that the authentication chain and make sure it leads back to a trusted certificate, using the chain of certificates provided by the submitter. Logs MUST refuse to publish a signed software without a valid chain. If the software and the signature are accepted and an SCT issued, the accepting log MUST store the entire chain used for verification, including the signed software itself and including the trusted zone signing key used to verify the chain, and MUST present this chain for auditing upon request.
To comply with the certificate entries specified in [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis],Each software entry in a log MUST include the following components:
enum { x509_entry(0), precert_entry(1), BIN_entry(TBD1), (65535) } LogEntryType;
struct {
LogEntryType entry_type;
select (entry_type) {
case x509_entry: X509ChainEntry;
case precert_entry: PrecertChainEntry;
case BINARY_entry:SigSoft_Chain_Entry
} entry;
} LogEntry;
opaque BINARY<1..2^24-1>;
struct {
BINARY signed_software;
ASN.1Cert certificate_chain<0..2^24-1>;
} BINARY_Chain_Entry;
"entry_type" is the type of this entry. the type value of a binary log entry is TBD1.
"signed_software" include the binary codes, the signature, and any other additional information used to describe the software and the signer publishing the software. The current version of the document does not specify how to structure such information. (CMS[RFC5652] can be used.) This work will be left for future work.
"certificate_chain" include the certificates constructing a chain from the certificate of signer to a certificate trusted by the log.The first certificate MUST be the certificate of signer. Each following certificate MUST directly certify the one preceding it. The final certificate MUST either be, or be issued by, a root certificate accepted by the log.
This work reuses the structure of Signed Certificate Timestamp specified in Section 3.3 of [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis] but make necessary extensions.
enum { certificate_timestamp(0), tree_hash(1),BINARY_timestamp(TBD2), (255) }
SignatureType;
enum { v1(0), (255) }
Version;
struct {
opaque key_id[32];
} LogID;
opaque digestcodes<0..2^24-1>;
struct {
opaque issuer_key_hash[32];
digestcodes binary_digest;
} Binary_Codes;
opaque CtExtensions<0..2^16-1>;
key_id and issuer_key_hash are defined in Section 3.3 of [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis].
binary_digest is the SHA-256 hash of binary codes. (Open question: In the future version of the this document, do we need to support other digest algorithms? If so, maybwe we should provie an digest identifier field here. )
struct {
Version sct_version;
LogID id;
uint64 timestamp;
CtExtensions extensions;
digitally-signed struct {
Version sct_version;
SignatureType signature_type = DSRR_timestamp;
uint64 timestamp;
LogEntryType entry_type;
select(entry_type) {
case x509_entry: ASN.1Cert;
case precert_entry: PreCert;
case BINARY_entry: Binary_Codes;
} signed_entry;
CtExtensions extensions;
};
} SignedCertificateTimestamp;
sct_version, timestamp, entry_type and extensions are are identical to what is defined in Section 3.3 of [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis]..
extensions are future extensions to this protocol version (v1). Currently, no extensions are specified.
In Section 4 of [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis], a set of messages is defined for clients to query and verfiy the correctness of the log entries they are interested in. In this memo, two new messages are defined for CT to support binary transparency.
POST https://<log server>/ct/v1/add-Binary-chain
Inputs:
Outputs:
This document makes no request of IANA.
Note to RFC Editor: this section may be removed on publication as an RFC.
| [I-D.ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis] | Laurie, B., Langley, A., Kasper, E. and R. Stradling, "Certificate Transparency", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-04, July 2014. |
| [RFC2119] | Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
| [RFC5652] | Housley, R., "Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", STD 70, RFC 5652, September 2009. |