Add a new option to limit DH key size in tls connect #1831

shigeki · 2015-05-29T07:26:49Z

This is the fix of logjam attack for a TLS client. It disable connecting to the TLS server with less than DH key size specified by a new option of minDHkeylen. The default is 1024 bits.

And it also introduces a new public API of TLSSocket.getEphemeralKeyInfo() to show the information of an ephemeral key type, name and length of TLS connection. I think it it good for users to know them. We should prepare future vulnerabilities not only DH but also ECDH.
Unfortunately openssl provided SSL_get_server_tmp_key() on only client so that this API returns an empty object on the server.

The last one is my home work from @bnoordhuis to output warning of setDHParams to console.trace().

Here is a list of logjam fix in openssl, Firefox and Chrome. I think iojs is also better to set minimum key length like this.

OpenSSL sets minimum key size 768 bits. iojs will follow this limit after upgrading forthcoming 1.0.2b even if minDHkeylen get less than this.
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/05/20/logjam-freak-upcoming-changes/
Firefox(NSS) does it to 1023 bits. (surprisingly there were 1023 bits key certs in the past)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138554
Chrome(BoringSSL) does it to 1024 bits.
https://boringssl-review.googlesource.com/4813

R= @bnoordhuis @indutny

indutny · 2015-05-29T08:09:32Z

Are you sure that we are actually vulnerable to the logjam attack? I always thought that we are not doing False Start, so it should not be possible to perform MiTM attack in this case.

shigeki · 2015-05-29T08:20:48Z

False Start is the worst case to decrypt DATA in offline.
But the paper of https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf says

we can keep browser connections alive by sending TLS warning alerts

According the paper, 512 bit DH key can be solved about 90 secs for the server with built-in prime such as apache. The current TLS timeout of iojs is 120 secs which is longer than that.

indutny · 2015-05-29T08:23:08Z

@shigeki but this is not logjam anymore, right? I just don't want to say that we was vulnerable to it in the first place, especially if we wasn't.

shigeki · 2015-05-29T08:28:34Z

If the wording of logjam only covers export DH cipher, that is right. I did not care about that. I've just changed this PR title to remove the word of logjam. There is no word of logjam in the commit message.

indutny · 2015-05-29T08:33:30Z

doc/api/tls.markdown

@@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ Creates a new client connection to the given `port` and `host` (old API) or

  - `session`: A `Buffer` instance, containing TLS session.

+  - `minDHkeylen`: Minimum key length of an ephemeral DH parameter to


A camel case (minDHKeyLen)? Or even minDHSize

I take minDHSize as it is shorter and more legible.

indutny · 2015-05-29T08:39:23Z

A couple of nits, otherwise looking great! Good job, @shigeki !

shigeki · 2015-05-30T04:15:05Z

@bnoordhuis @indutny Thanks for reviewing. According to your comments, I updated them. PTAL.

bnoordhuis · 2015-05-30T11:52:53Z

doc/api/tls.markdown

+connection. It returns an empty object when the key exchange is not
+ephemeral. As it is only supported on a client socket, it returns null
+if this is called on a server socket. The type of 'DH' and 'ECDH' are
+supported. The name property is only available in 'ECDH'.


Femto-nit: maybe reword this to:

The supported types are 'DH' and 'ECDH'. The `name` property is only available with 'ECDH'.

bnoordhuis · 2015-05-30T11:56:29Z

LGTM apart from a couple of nits. Can you rebase and run the CI before landing this? Thanks.

jasnell · 2015-10-16T00:07:46Z

@shigeki @bnoordhuis @indutny ... ping

shigeki · 2015-10-16T00:30:44Z

Sorry for my late response. This is a security enhancement of DH as the same way of Chrome/Firefox. It is not so much threat at the usual use but https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/haldermanheninger/how-is-nsa-breaking-so-much-crypto/ says that

Breaking a second 1024-bit prime would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to nearly 20% of the top million HTTPS websites. In other words, a one-time investment in massive computation would make it possible to eavesdrop on trillions of encrypted connections.

so that I think it is worth to have this in order to protect against the nation level attack.
The current patch is revised after the last LGTM and I'm not sure that whether I can land it or not without a new review.

indutny · 2015-10-16T00:34:24Z

This should be semver-major. It will definitely break code that was connecting to 1024-bit DH servers. Otherwise LGTM

shigeki · 2015-10-16T00:38:12Z

@indutny Thanks. I agree it. I've changed label. I rebase this, make tests again and land it after 5.0 start.

Fishrock123 · 2015-10-16T00:43:50Z

Note: semver-major will have to land before 5.0 or else be delayed until 6.0

shigeki · 2015-10-16T00:48:36Z

@Fishrock123 Thanks. The current master is already 5.0.0-pre so can I land this now?

shigeki · 2015-10-16T01:27:06Z

CI testing https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/519/

shigeki · 2015-10-16T02:20:33Z

CI show the following 7 test failures but they are not related to this PR. Otherwise are green.
@Fishrock123 @rvagg Could you give me a timing to land semver-major?

ubuntu1404-32
not ok 42 test-child-process-fork-net2.js
vs2013,win2008r2
not ok 11 test-child-process-fork-regr-Segfault in node::StreamBase::GetFD #2847.js
vs2015,win2012r2
not ok 223 test-http-pipeline-flood.js
ppcle-ubuntu1404
not ok 904 test-debug-args.js
ppcbe-fedora20
not ok 45 test-child-process-fork-regr-Segfault in node::StreamBase::GetFD #2847.js
not ok 712 test-tick-processor.js
not ok 904 test-debug-args.js

Fishrock123 · 2015-10-16T02:35:59Z

@shigeki v5.0 is set to cut probably next week, and semver-major's have been landing on master. If this PR is green as usual it can land on master at any time, but it will only make it into v5 if it lands soon. :)

(This also assumes this has had enough TSC review, which I think it has.)

Returns an object representing a type, name and size of an ephemeral key exchange in a client connection. Currently only DHE and ECHE are supported. This api only works on on a client connection. When it is called on a server connection, null is returned. When its key exchange is not ephemeral, an empty object is returned. PR-URL: #1831 Reviewed-By: indutny - Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

Add a new option to specifiy a minimum size of an ephemeral DH parameter to accept a tls connection. Default is 1024 bit. PR-URL: #1831 Reviewed-By: indutny - Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

To make it easy to figure out where the warning comes from. Also fix style and variable name that was made in #1739. PR-URL: #1831 Reviewed-By: indutny - Fedor Indutny <fedor.indutny@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: bnoordhuis - Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

shigeki · 2015-10-16T02:43:10Z

@Fishrock123 Thanks.
Landed in 6d92eba, f72e178 and 0140e1b to the current master.

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Fishrock123 · 2015-10-30T13:51:21Z

Tagging also as minor since one commit is just additive.

MylesBorins · 2015-11-16T23:39:41Z

Just want to verify that f72e178 will not be landing in lts

jasnell · 2015-11-17T00:00:05Z

@thealphanerd ... this one is a special case, a variation on this will land in v4.x, v0.12 and v0.10 as part of a security fix that landed in master but not in the branches.

MylesBorins · 2015-12-15T00:12:46Z

@jasnell has the security fix landed yet? I could not find any of these commits in v4.x-staging

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		@@ -347,6 +347,11 @@ Creates a new client connection to the given `port` and `host` (old API) or

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