LAMPS S. Turner Internet-Draft sn3rd Intended status: Standards Track P. Kampanakis Expires: 24 April 2025 J. Massimo AWS B. Westerbaan Cloudflare 21 October 2024 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure - Algorithm Identifiers for the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) draft-ietf-lamps-kyber-certificates-latest Abstract The Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) is a quantum-resistant key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM). This document describes the conventions for using the ML-KEM in X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. The conventions for the subject public keys and private keys are also described. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://lamps- wg.github.io/kyber-certificates/#go.draft-ietf-lamps-kyber- certificates.html. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-kyber- certificates/. 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It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on 24 April 2025. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2024 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Revised BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Revised BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Applicability Statement 2. Conventions and Definitions 3. Algorithm Identifiers 4. Subject Public Key Fields 5. Private Key Format 6. Security Considerations 7. IANA Considerations 8. References 8.1. Normative References 8.2. Informative References Appendix A. ASN.1 Module Appendix B. Examples B.1. Example Public Key B.2. Example Private Key B.3. Example Certificate Acknowledgments Authors' Addresses 1. Introduction The Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM) standardized in [FIPS203] is a quantum-resistant key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) standardized by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) PQC Project [NIST-PQC]. Prior to standardization, the mechanism was known as Kyber. ML-KEM and Kyber are not compatible. This document specifies the use of ML-KEM in Public Key Infrastructure X.509 (PKIX) certificates [RFC5280] at three security levels: ML-KEM-512, ML-KEM-768, and ML-KEM-1024, using object identifiers assigned by NIST. The private key format is also specified. 1.1. Applicability Statement ML-KEM certificates are used in protocols where the public key is used to generate and encapsulate a shared secret used to derive a symmetric key used to encrypt a payload; see [I-D.ietf-lamps-cms-kyber]. To be used in TLS, ML-KEM certificates could only be used as end-entity identity certificates and would require significant updates to the protocol; see [I-D.celi-wiggers-tls-authkem]. 2. Conventions and Definitions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. 3. Algorithm Identifiers The AlgorithmIdentifier type, which is included herein for convenience, is defined as follows: AlgorithmIdentifier{ALGORITHM-TYPE, ALGORITHM-TYPE:AlgorithmSet} ::= SEQUENCE { algorithm ALGORITHM-TYPE.&id({AlgorithmSet}), parameters ALGORITHM-TYPE. &Params({AlgorithmSet}{@algorithm}) OPTIONAL } | NOTE: The above syntax is from [RFC5912] and is compatible with | the 2021 ASN.1 syntax [X680]. See [RFC5280] for the 1988 ASN.1 | syntax. The fields in AlgorithmIdentifier have the following meanings: * algorithm identifies the cryptographic algorithm with an object identifier. * parameters, which are optional, are the associated parameters for the algorithm identifier in the algorithm field. The AlgorithmIdentifier for a ML-KEM public key MUST use one of the id-alg-ml-kem object identifiers listed below, based on the security level. The parameters field of the AlgorithmIdentifier for the ML- KEM public key MUST be absent. When any of the ML-KEM AlgorithmIdentifier appears in the SubjectPublicKeyInfo field of an X.509 certificate, the key usage certificate extension MUST only contain keyEncipherment Section 4.2.1.3 of [RFC5280]. nistAlgorithms OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) country(16) us(840) organization(1) gov(101) csor(3) nistAlgorithm(4) } kems OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { nistAlgorithms 4 } id-alg-ml-kem-512 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 1 } id-alg-ml-kem-768 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 2 } id-alg-ml-kem-1024 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 3 } pk-ml-kem-512 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-512 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } pk-ml-kem-768 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-768 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } pk-ml-kem-1024 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-1024 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } ML-KEM-PublicKey ::= OCTET STRING ML-KEM-PrivateKey ::= OCTET STRING No additional encoding of the ML-KEM public key value is applied in the SubjectPublicKeyInfo field of an X.509 certificate [RFC5280]. However, whenever the ML-KEM public key value appears outside of a certificate, it MAY be encoded as an OCTET STRING. No additional encoding of the ML-KEM private key value is applied in the PrivateKeyInfo field of an Asymmetric Key Package [RFC5958]. However, whenever the ML-KEM private key value appears outside of a Asymmetric Key Package, it MAY be encoded as an OCTET STRING. 4. Subject Public Key Fields In the X.509 certificate, the subjectPublicKeyInfo field has the SubjectPublicKeyInfo type, which has the following ASN.1 syntax: SubjectPublicKeyInfo {PUBLIC-KEY: IOSet} ::= SEQUENCE { algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier {PUBLIC-KEY, {IOSet}}, subjectPublicKey BIT STRING } | NOTE: The above syntax is from [RFC5912] and is compatible with | the 2021 ASN.1 syntax [X680]. See [RFC5280] for the 1988 ASN.1 | syntax. The fields in SubjectPublicKeyInfo have the following meaning: * algorithm is the algorithm identifier and parameters for the public key (see above). * subjectPublicKey contains the byte stream of the public key. Appendix B.1 contains an example of an id-alg-ml-kem-768 public key encoded using the textual encoding defined in [RFC7468]. 5. Private Key Format "Asymmetric Key Packages" [RFC5958] describes how to encode a private key in a structure that both identifies what algorithm the private key is for and allows for the public key and additional attributes about the key to be included as well. For illustration, the ASN.1 structure OneAsymmetricKey is replicated below. The algorithm- specific details of how a private key is encoded are left for the document describing the algorithm itself. OneAsymmetricKey ::= SEQUENCE { version Version, privateKeyAlgorithm SEQUENCE { algorithm PUBLIC-KEY.&id({PublicKeySet}), parameters PUBLIC-KEY.&Params({PublicKeySet} {@privateKeyAlgorithm.algorithm}) OPTIONAL} privateKey OCTET STRING (CONTAINING PUBLIC-KEY.&PrivateKey({PublicKeySet} {@privateKeyAlgorithm.algorithm})), attributes [0] Attributes OPTIONAL, ..., [[2: publicKey [1] BIT STRING (CONTAINING PUBLIC-KEY.&Params({PublicKeySet} {@privateKeyAlgorithm.algorithm}) OPTIONAL, ... } | NOTE: The above syntax is from [RFC5958] and is compatible with | the 2021 ASN.1 syntax [X680]. When used in a OneAsymmetricKey type, the privateKey OCTET STRING contains the raw octet string encoding of the private key. When an ML-KEM public key is included in a OneAsymmetricKey type, it is encoded in the same manner as in a SubjectPublicKeyInfo type. That is, the publicKey BIT STRING contains the raw octet string encoding of the public key. | NOTE: There exist some private key import functions that have | not implemented the new ASN.1 structure OneAsymmetricKey that | is defined in [RFC5958]. This means that they will not accept | a private key structure that contains the public key field. | This means a balancing act needs to be done between being able | to do a consistency check on the key pair and widest ability to | import the key. Appendix B.2 contains an example of an id-alg-ml-kem-768 private key encoded using the textual encoding defined in [RFC7468]. 6. Security Considerations The Security Considerations section of [RFC5280] applies to this specification as well. | To Do: Discuss side-channels for Kyber TBD1. 7. IANA Considerations For the ASN.1 Module in Appendix A, IANA is requested to assign an object identifier (OID) for the module identifier (TBD2) with a Description of "id-mod-x509-ml-kem-2024". The OID for the module should be allocated in the "SMI Security for PKIX Module Identifier" registry (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.0). 8. References 8.1. Normative References [FIPS203] "Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard", National Institute of Standards and Technology, DOI 10.6028/nist.fips.203, August 2024, . [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S., Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008, . [RFC5912] Hoffman, P. and J. Schaad, "New ASN.1 Modules for the Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX)", RFC 5912, DOI 10.17487/RFC5912, June 2010, . [RFC5958] Turner, S., "Asymmetric Key Packages", RFC 5958, DOI 10.17487/RFC5958, August 2010, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . [RFC9629] Housley, R., Gray, J., and T. Okubo, "Using Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) Algorithms in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", RFC 9629, DOI 10.17487/RFC9629, August 2024, . [X680] ITU-T, "Information technology - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): Specification of basic notation", ITU-T Recommendation X.680, ISO/IEC 8824-1:2021, February 2021, . [X690] ITU-T, "Information technology - Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1): ASN.1 encoding rules: Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)", ITU-T Recommendation X.690, ISO/IEC 8825-1:2021, February 2021, . 8.2. Informative References [I-D.celi-wiggers-tls-authkem] Wiggers, T., Celi, S., Schwabe, P., Stebila, D., and N. Sullivan, "KEM-based Authentication for TLS 1.3", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-celi-wiggers-tls-authkem- 04, 17 October 2024, . [I-D.ietf-lamps-cms-kyber] Prat, J., Ounsworth, M., and D. Van Geest, "Use of ML-KEM in the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-lamps-cms-kyber-05, 15 October 2024, . [NIST-PQC] National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), "Post-Quantum Cryptography Project", 20 December 2016, . [RFC7468] Josefsson, S. and S. Leonard, "Textual Encodings of PKIX, PKCS, and CMS Structures", RFC 7468, DOI 10.17487/RFC7468, April 2015, . Appendix A. ASN.1 Module This appendix includes the ASN.1 module [X680] for the ML-KEM. Note that as per [RFC5280], certificates use the Distinguished Encoding Rules; see [X690]. This module imports objects from [RFC5912] and [RFC9629]. X509-ML-KEM-2024 { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0) id-mod-x509-ml-kem-2024(TBD2) } DEFINITIONS IMPLICIT TAGS ::= BEGIN EXPORTS ALL; IMPORTS PUBLIC-KEY FROM AlgorithmInformation-2009 -- [RFC 5912] { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0) id-mod-algorithmInformation-02(58) } KEM-ALGORITHM FROM KEMAlgorithmInformation-2023 -- [RFC 9629] { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0) id-mod-kemAlgorithmInformation-2023(109) }; -- -- ML-KEM Identifiers -- nistAlgorithms OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) country(16) us(840) organization(1) gov(101) csor(3) nistAlgorithm(4) } kems OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { nistAlgorithms 4 } id-alg-ml-kem-512 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 1 } id-alg-ml-kem-768 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 2 } id-alg-ml-kem-1024 OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { kems 3 } -- -- Public Key Algorithms -- -- To use the following with the PKIX1Explicit-2009 [RFC5912], replace -- the PublicKeyAlgorithms therein with the following: -- -- PublicKeyAlgorithms PUBLIC-KEY ::= { -- PKIXAlgs-2009.PublicKeys, -- ..., -- PKIX1-PSS-OAEP-Algorithms-2009.PublicKeys, -- X509-ML-KEM-2024.PublicKeys } -- -- Public Key (pk-) Algorithms -- PublicKeys PUBLIC-KEY ::= { -- This expands PublicKeys from RFC 5912 pk-ml-kem-512 | pk-ml-kem-768 | pk-ml-kem-1024, ... } -- -- ML-KEM Public Keys -- pk-ml-kem-512 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-512 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } pk-ml-kem-768 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-768 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } pk-ml-kem-1024 PUBLIC-KEY ::= { IDENTIFIER id-alg-ml-kem-1024 -- KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- PARAMS ARE absent CERT-KEY-USAGE { keyEncipherment } --- PRIVATE-KEY no ASN.1 wrapping -- } END Appendix B. Examples This appendix contains examples of ML-KEM public keys, private keys and certificates. B.1. Example Public Key The following is an example of a ML-KEM-768 public key: -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- TODO insert example public key -----END PUBLIC KEY------- B.2. Example Private Key The following is an example of a ML-KEM-768 private key: -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- TODO insert example private key -----END PRIVATE KEY------- The following example, in addition to encoding the ML-KEM-768 private key, has an attribute included as well as the public key: -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- TODO insert example private key with attribute -----END PRIVATE KEY------- B.3. Example Certificate TODO insert ASN.1 Pretty Print -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- TODO Certificate -----END CERTIFICATE------- Acknowledgments TODO acknowledge. Authors' Addresses Sean Turner sn3rd Email: sean@sn3rd.com Panos Kampanakis AWS Email: kpanos@amazon.com Jake Massimo AWS Email: jakemas@amazon.com Bas Westerbaan Cloudflare Email: bas@westerbaan.name