| AVTCORE | J. Lennox |
| Internet-Draft | Vidyo |
| Updates: 3711 (if approved) | January 03, 2013 |
| Intended status: Standards Track | |
| Expires: July 07, 2013 |
Encryption of Header Extensions in the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
draft-ietf-avtcore-srtp-encrypted-header-ext-04
The Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP) provides authentication, but not encryption, of the headers of Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets. However, RTP header extensions may carry sensitive information for which participants in multimedia sessions want confidentiality. This document provides a mechanism, extending the mechanisms of SRTP, to selectively encrypt RTP header extensions in SRTP.
This document updates RFC 3711, the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol specification, to require that all future SRTP encryption transforms specify how RTP header extensions are to be encrypted.
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The Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol [RFC3711] specification provides confidentiality, message authentication, and replay protection for multimedia payloads sent using the Real-Time Protocol (RTP) [RFC3550]. However, in order to preserve RTP header compression efficiency, SRTP provides only authentication and replay protection for the headers of RTP packets, not confidentiality.
For the standard portions of an RTP header, this does not normally present a problem, as the information carried in an RTP header does not provide much information beyond that which an attacker could infer by observing the size and timing of RTP packets. Thus, there is little need for confidentiality of the header information.
However, this is not necessarily true for information carried in RTP header extensions. A number of recent proposals for header extensions using the General Mechanism for RTP Header Extensions [RFC5285] carry information for which confidentiality could be desired or essential. Notably, two recent specifications ([RFC6464] and [RFC6465]) carry information about per-packet sound levels of the media data carried in the RTP payload, and exposing this to an eavesdropper is unacceptable in many circumstances.
This document, therefore, defines a mechanism by which encryption can be applied to RTP header extensions when they are transported using SRTP. As an RTP sender may wish some extension information to be sent in the clear (for example, it may be useful for a network monitoring device to be aware of RTP transmission time offsets [RFC5450]), this mechanism can be selectively applied to a subset of the header extension elements carried in an SRTP packet.
The mechanism defined by this document encrypts packets' header extensions using the same cryptographic algorithms and parameters as are used to encrypt the packets' RTP payloads. This document defines how this is done for the encryption transforms defined in [RFC3711], [RFC5669], and [RFC6188], the SRTP encryption transforms defined by standards-track IETF documents at the time of this writing. It also updates [RFC3711], to indicate that specifications of future SRTP encryption transforms must define how header extension encryption is to be performed.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] and indicate requirement levels for compliant implementations.
Encrypted header extension elements are carried in the same manner as non-encrypted header extension elements, as defined by [RFC5285]. The (one- or two-byte) header of the extension elements is not encrypted, nor is any of the header extension padding. If multiple different header extension elements are being encrypted, they have separate element identifier values, just as they would if they were not encrypted; similarly, encrypted and non-encrypted header extension elements have separate identifier values.
Encrypted extension headers are only carried in packets encrypted using the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol [RFC3711]. To encrypt (or decrypt) encrypted extension headers, an SRTP participant first uses the SRTP Key Derivation Algorithm, specified in Section 4.3.1 of [RFC3711], to generate header encryption and header salting keys, using the same pseudo-random function family as are used for the key derivation for the SRTP session. These keys are derived as follows:
where n_e and n_s are from the cryptographic context: the same size encryption key and salting key are used as are used for the SRTP payload. (Note that since RTP headers, including extension headers, are authenticated in SRTP, no new authentication key is needed for extension headers.)
A header extension keystream is generated for each packet containing encrypted header extension elements. The details of how this header extension keystream is generated depend on the encryption transform that is used for the SRTP packet. For encryption transforms that have been standardized as of the publication of this document, see Section 3.2; for requirements for new transforms, see Section 3.3.
Once the header extension keystream is generated, the SRTP participant then computes an encryption mask for the header extension, identifying the portions of the header extension that are, or are to be, encrypted. This encryption mask corresponds to the entire payload of each header extension element that is encrypted. It does not include any non-encrypted header extension elements, any extension element headers, or any padding octets. The encryption mask has all-bits-1 octets (i.e., hexadecimal 0xff) for header extension octets which are to be encrypted, and all-bits-0 octets for header extension octets which are not to be. The set of extension elements to be encrypted is communicated between the sender and the receiver using the signaling mechanisms described in Section 4.
This encryption mask is computed separately for every packet that carries a header extension. Based on the non-encrypted portions of the headers and the signaled list of encrypted extension elements, a receiver can always determine the correct encryption mask for any encrypted header extension.
The SRTP participant bitwise-ANDs the encryption mask with the keystream to produce a masked keystream. It then bitwise exclusive-ors the header extension with this masked keystream to produce the ciphertext version of the header extension. (Thus, octets indicated as all-bits-1 in the encrypted mask are encrypted, whereas those indicated as all-bits-0 are not.)
The header extension encryption process does not include the "defined by profile" or "length" fields of the header extension, only the field that [RFC3550] Section 5.3.1 calls "header extension" proper, starting with the first [RFC5285] ID and length. Thus, both the encryption mask and the keystream begin at this point.
This header extension encryption process could, equivalently, be computed by considering the encryption mask as a mixture of the encrypted and unencrypted headers, i.e. as
EncryptedHeader = (Encrypt(Key, Plaintext) AND MASK) OR
(Plaintext AND (NOT MASK))
where Encrypt is the encryption function, MASK is the encryption mask, and AND, OR, and NOT are bitwise operations. This formulation of the encryption process might be preferred by implementations for which encryption is performed by a separate module, and cannot easily be modified.
The SRTP authentication tag is computed across the encrypted header extension, i.e., the data that is actually transmitted on the wire. Thus, header extension encryption MUST be done before the authentication tag is computed, and authentication tag validation MUST be done on the encrypted header extensions. For receivers, header extension decryption SHOULD be done only after the receiver has validated the packet's message authentication tag, and the receiver MUST NOT take any actions based on decrypted headers that could affect the security or proper functioning of the system, prior to validating the authentication tag.
If a sender wished to send a header extension containing an encrypted SMPTE timecode [RFC5484] with ID 1, a plaintext transmission time offset [RFC5450] with ID 2, an encrypted audio level indication [RFC6464] with ID 3, and an encrypted NTP Timestamp [RFC6051] with ID 4, the plaintext RTP header extension might look like this:
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | ID=1 | len=7 | SMTPE timecode (long form) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | SMTPE timecode (continued) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | SMTPE (cont'd)| ID=2 | len=2 | toffset | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | toffset (ct'd)| ID=3 | len=0 | audio level | ID=4 | len=6 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | NTP Timestamp (Variant B) | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | NTP Timestamp (Variant B, cont.) | padding = 0 | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1
The corresponding encryption mask would then be:
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1|0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2
In the mask, the octets corresponding to the payloads of the encrypted header extension elements are set to all-1 values, and octets corresponding to non-encrypted header extension elements, element headers, and header extension padding are set to all-0 values.
For the AES-CM and AES-f8 transforms [RFC3711], the SEED-CTR transform [RFC5669], and the AES_192_CM and AES_256_CM transforms [RFC6188], the header extension keystream SHALL be generated for each packet containing encrypted header extension elements, using the same encryption transform and Initialization Vector (IV) as is used for that packet's SRTP payload, except that the SRTP encryption and salting keys k_e and k_s are replaced by the SRTP header encryption and header salting keys k_he and k_hs, defined above, respectively.
For the SEED-CCM and SEED-GCM transforms [RFC5669], the header extension keystream SHALL be generated using the algorithm specified above for the SEED-CTR algorithm. (Because the AEAD transform used on the payload in these algorithms includes the RTP header, including the RTP header extension, in its Associated Authenticated Data (AAD), counter-mode encryption for the header extension is believed to be of equivalent cryptographic strength to the CCM and GCM transforms.)
For the NULL encryption transform [RFC3711], the header extension keystream SHALL be all-zero.
When new SRTP encryption transforms are defined, this document updates [RFC3711] as follows: in addition to the rules specified in Section 6 of RFC 3711, the standard track RFC defining the new transform MUST specify how the encryption transform is to be used with header extension encryption.
It is RECOMMENDED that new transformations follow the same mechanisms as are defined in Section 3.2, if these are applicable and are believed to be cryptographically adequate for the transform in question.
Encrypted header extension elements are signaled in the SDP extmap attribute, using the URI "urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:encrypt", followed by the URI of the header extension element being encrypted as well as any extensionattributes that extension normally takes. Figure 3 gives a formal Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) [RFC5234] showing this grammar extension, extending the grammar defined in [RFC5285].
enc-extensionname = %x75.72.6e.3a.69.65.74.66.3a.70.61.72.61.6d.73.3a
%x72.74.70.2d.68.64.72.65.78.74.3a.65.6e.63.72.79.70.74
; "urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:encrypt" in lower case
extmap /= mapentry SP enc-extensionname SP extensionname
[SP extensionattributes]
; extmap, mapentry, extensionname and extensionattributes
; are defined in [RFC5285]
Figure 3: Syntax of the "encrypt" extmap
Thus, for example, to signal an SRTP session using encrypted SMPTE timecodes [RFC5484], while simultaneously signaling plaintext transmission time offsets [RFC5450], an SDP document could contain (line breaks added for formatting):
m=audio 49170 RTP/SAVP 0
a=crypto:1 AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_32 \
inline:NzB4d1BINUAvLEw6UzF3WSJ+PSdFcGdUJShpX1Zj|2^20|1:32
a=extmap:1 urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:encrypt \
urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:smpte-tc 25@600/24
a=extmap:2 urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:toffset
Figure 4
This example uses SDP Security Descriptions [RFC4568] for SRTP keying, but this is merely for illustration; any SRTP keying mechanism to establish session keys will work.
The extmap SDP attribute is defined in [RFC5285] as being either a session or media attribute. If the extmap for an encrypted header extension is specified as a media attribute, it MUST only be specified for media which use SRTP-based RTP profiles. If such an extmap is specified as a session attribute, there MUST be at least one media in the SDP session which uses an SRTP-based RTP profile; the session-level extmap applies to all the SRTP-based media in the session, and MUST be ignored for all other (non-SRTP or non-RTP) media.
The "urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:encrypt" extension MUST NOT be recursively applied to itself.
Following the procedures in [RFC5285], an SDP endpoint which does not understand the "urn:ietf:params:rtp-hdrext:encrypt" extension URI will ignore the extension, and (for SDP offer/answer) negotiate not to use it.
In a negotiated session (whether using offer/answer or some other means), best-effort encryption of a header extension element is possible: an endpoint MAY offer the same header extension element both encrypted and unencrypted. Receivers which understand header extension encryption SHOULD choose the encrypted form and mark the unencrypted form "inactive", unless they have an explicit reason to prefer the unencrypted form. (Note that, as always, users of best-effort encryption MUST be cautious of bid-down attacks, where a man-in-the-middle attacker removes a higher-security option, forcing endpoints to negotiate a lower-security one. Appropriate countermeasures depend on the signaling protocol in use, but users can ensure, for example, that signaling is integrity-protected.)
The security properties of header extension elements protected by the mechanism in this document are equivalent to those for SRTP payloads.
The mechanism defined in this document does not provide confidentiality about which header extension elements are used for a given SRTP packet, only for the content of those header extension elements. This appears to be in the spirit of SRTP itself, which does not encrypt RTP headers. If this is a concern, an alternate mechanism would be needed to provide confidentiality.
For the two-byte-header form of header extension elements (0x100x), this mechanism does not provide any protection to zero-length header extension elements (for which their presence or absence is the only information they carry). It also does not provide any protection for the two-byte-headers' app bits (field 256, the lowest four bits of the "defined by profile" field). Neither of these features are present in for one-byte-header form of header extension elements (0xBEDE), so these limitations do not apply in that case.
This mechanism cannot protect RTP header extensions which do not use the mechanism defined in [RFC5285].
This document does not specify the circumstances in which extension header encryption should be used. Documents defining specific header extension elements should provide guidance on when encryption is appropriate for these elements.
If a middlebox does not have access to the SRTP authentication keys, it has no way to verify the authenticity of unencrypted RTP header extension elements (or the unencrypted RTP header), even though it can monitor them. Therefore, such middleboxes MUST treat such headers as untrusted and potentially generated by an attacker, in the same way as unauthenticated traffic. (This does not mean that middleboxes cannot view and interpret such traffic, of course, only that appropriate skepticism needs to be maintained about the results of such interpretation.).
There is no mechanism defined to protect header extensions with different algorithms or encryption keys than are used to protect the RTP payloads. In particular, it is not possible to provide confidentiality for a header extension while leaving the payload in cleartext.
The technique defined in this document can only be applied to encryption transforms that work by generating a pseudorandom keystream and bitwise exclusive-oring it with the plaintext, such as CTR or f8. It MUST NOT be used with ECB, CBC, or any other encryption method that does not use a keystream, or a loss of security will entail.
This document defines a new extension URI to the RTP Compact Header Extensions subregistry of the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Parameters registry, according to the following data:
(Note to the RFC-Editor: please replace "XXXX" with the number of this document prior to publication as an RFC.)
Thanks to Roni Even, Kevin Igoe, David McGrew, Magnus Westerlund, David Singer, Robert Sparks, Qin Wu, and Felix Wyss for their comments and suggestions in the development of this specification.
| [RFC2119] | Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
| [RFC5234] | Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. |
| [RFC5285] | Singer, D. and H. Desineni, "A General Mechanism for RTP Header Extensions", RFC 5285, July 2008. |
| [RFC3711] | Baugher, M., McGrew, D., Naslund, M., Carrara, E. and K. Norrman, "The Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 3711, March 2004. |
| [RFC3550] | Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R. and V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications", STD 64, RFC 3550, July 2003. |
| [RFC6188] | McGrew, D., "The Use of AES-192 and AES-256 in Secure RTP", RFC 6188, March 2011. |
| [RFC5669] | Yoon, S., Kim, J., Park, H., Jeong, H. and Y. Won, "The SEED Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with the Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)", RFC 5669, August 2010. |
| [RFC5450] | Singer, D. and H. Desineni, "Transmission Time Offsets in RTP Streams", RFC 5450, March 2009. |
| [RFC6464] | Lennox, J., Ivov, E. and E. Marocco, "A Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Header Extension for Client-to-Mixer Audio Level Indication", RFC 6464, December 2011. |
| [RFC4568] | Andreasen, F., Baugher, M. and D. Wing, "Session Description Protocol (SDP) Security Descriptions for Media Streams", RFC 4568, July 2006. |
| [RFC6465] | Ivov, E., Marocco, E. and J. Lennox, "A Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Header Extension for Mixer-to-Client Audio Level Indication", RFC 6465, December 2011. |
| [RFC5484] | Singer, D., "Associating Time-Codes with RTP Streams", RFC 5484, March 2009. |
| [RFC6051] | Perkins, C. and T. Schierl, "Rapid Synchronisation of RTP Flows", RFC 6051, November 2010. |
This section provides test data for the header extension key derivation function, using AES-128 in Counter Mode. (The algorithms and keys used are the same as those for the the test vectors in Appendix B.3 of [RFC3711].)
The inputs to the key derivation function are the 16 octet master key and the 14 octet master salt:
Following [RFC3711], the input block for AES-CM is generated by exclusive-oring the master salt with the concatenation of the encryption key label 0x06 with (index DIV kdr), then padding on the right with two null octets (which implements the multiply-by-2^16 operation, see Section 4.3.3 of [RFC3711]). The resulting value is then AES-CM- encrypted using the master key to get the cipher key.
index DIV kdr: 000000000000 label: 06 master salt: 0EC675AD498AFEEBB6960B3AABE6 -------------------------------------------------- xor: 0EC675AD498AFEEDB6960B3AABE6 (x, PRF input) x*2^16: 0EC675AD498AFEEDB6960B3AABE60000 (AES-CM input) hdr. cipher key: 549752054D6FB708622C4A2E596A1B93 (AES-CM output)
Next, we show how the cipher salt is generated. The input block for AES-CM is generated by exclusive-oring the master salt with the concatenation of the encryption salt label. That value is padded and encrypted as above.
index DIV kdr: 000000000000
label: 07
master salt: 0EC675AD498AFEEBB6960B3AABE6
--------------------------------------------------
xor: 0EC675AD498AFEECB6960B3AABE6 (x, PRF input)
x*2^16: 0EC675AD498AFEECB6960B3AABE60000 (AES-CM input)
AB01818174C40D39A3781F7C2D270733 (AES-CM ouptut)
hdr. cipher salt: AB01818174C40D39A3781F7C2D27
This section provides test vectors for the encryption of a header extension, using the AES_CM cryptographic transform.
The header extension is encrypted using the header cipher key and header cipher salt computed in Appendix A.1. The header extension is carried in an SRTP-encrypted RTP packet with SSRC 0xCAFEBABE, sequence number 0x1234, and an all-zero rollover counter.
Session Key: 549752054D6FB708622C4A2E596A1B93
Session Salt: AB01818174C40D39A3781F7C2D27
SSRC: CAFEBABE
Rollover Counter: 00000000
Sequence Number: 1234
----------------------------------------------
Init. Counter: AB018181BE3AB787A3781F7C3F130000
The SRTP session was negotiated to indicate that header extension ID values 1, 3 and 4 are encrypted.
In hexadecimal, the header extension being encrypted is (spaces added to show the internal structure of the header extension):
17 414273A475262748 22 0000C8 30 8E 46 55996386B395FB 00
This header extension is 24 bytes long. (Its values are intended to represent plausible values of the header extension elements shown in Section 3.1, but their specific meaning is not important for the example.) The header extension "defined by profile" and "length" fields, which in this case are BEDE 0006 in hexadecimal, are not included in the encryption process.
In hexadecimal, the corresponding encryption mask selecting the bodies of header extensions 1, 2, and 4 (corresponding to the mask in Figure 2) is:
00 FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF 00 000000 00 FF 00 FFFFFFFFFFFFFF 00
Finally, we compute the keystream from the session key and the initial counter, apply the mask to the keystream, and then xor the keystream with the plaintext:
Initial keystream: 1E19C8E1D481C779549ED1617AAA1B7A
FC0D933AE7ED6CC8
Mask (Hex): 00FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF0000000000FF00
FFFFFFFFFFFFFF00
Masked keystream: 0019C8E1D481C7795400000000001B00
FC0D933AE7ED6C00
Plaintext: 17414273A475262748220000C8308E46
55996386B395FB00
Ciphertext: 17588A9270F4E15E1C220000C8309546
A994F0BC54789700
Note to the RFC-Editor: please remove this section prior to publication as an RFC.