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diff --git a/lib/mbedtls-2.27.0/docs/architecture/tls13-experimental.md b/lib/mbedtls-2.27.0/docs/architecture/tls13-experimental.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10cbfa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/mbedtls-2.27.0/docs/architecture/tls13-experimental.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +TLS 1.3 Experimental Developments +================================= + +Overview +-------- + +Mbed TLS doesn't support the TLS 1.3 protocol yet, but a prototype is in development. +Stable parts of this prototype that can be independently tested are being successively +upstreamed under the guard of the following macro: + +``` +MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3_EXPERIMENTAL +``` + +This macro will likely be renamed to `MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3` once a minimal viable +implementation of the TLS 1.3 protocol is available. + +See the [documentation of `MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3_EXPERIMENTAL`](../../include/mbedtls/config.h) +for more information. + +Status +------ + +The following lists which parts of the TLS 1.3 prototype have already been upstreamed +together with their level of testing: + +* TLS 1.3 record protection mechanisms + + The record protection routines `mbedtls_ssl_{encrypt|decrypt}_buf()` have been extended + to support the modified TLS 1.3 record protection mechanism, including modified computation + of AAD, IV, and the introduction of a flexible padding. + + Those record protection routines have unit tests in `test_suite_ssl` alongside the + tests for the other record protection routines. + + TODO: Add some test vectors from RFC 8448. + +- The HKDF key derivation function on which the TLS 1.3 key schedule is based, + is already present as an independent module controlled by `MBEDTLS_HKDF_C` + independently of the development of the TLS 1.3 prototype. + +- The TLS 1.3-specific HKDF-based key derivation functions (see RFC 8446): + * HKDF-Expand-Label + * Derive-Secret + - Secret evolution + * The traffic {Key,IV} generation from secret + Those functions are implemented in `library/ssl_tls13_keys.c` and + tested in `test_suite_ssl` using test vectors from RFC 8448 and + https://tls13.ulfheim.net/. + +- New TLS Message Processing Stack (MPS) + + The TLS 1.3 prototype is developed alongside a rewrite of the TLS messaging layer, + encompassing low-level details such as record parsing, handshake reassembly, and + DTLS retransmission state machine. + + MPS has the following components: + - Layer 1 (Datagram handling) + - Layer 2 (Record handling) + - Layer 3 (Message handling) + - Layer 4 (Retransmission State Machine) + - Reader (Abstracted pointer arithmetic and reassembly logic for incoming data) + - Writer (Abstracted pointer arithmetic and fragmentation logic for outgoing data) + + Of those components, the following have been upstreamed + as part of `MBEDTLS_SSL_PROTO_TLS1_3_EXPERIMENTAL`: + + - Reader ([`library/mps_reader.h`](../../library/mps_reader.h)) |