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title: Overview and Logs for the tini2p Dev Meeting Held on 2019-07-11
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summary: Current project status, Roadmap, Meta issues, and miscellaneous
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tags: [dev diaries, i2p, crypto]
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author: el00ruobuob / oneiric
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# Logs
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**tini2p** 0: Greetings
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hi
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1: Update on alpha release
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planned on releasing the alpha version of tini2p yesterday, but ran into a number of bugs while writing the ECIES SessionManager and related tests
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some of them were holdovers from early LeaseSet2 code. a number of them though must have been the products of late-night coding or some other mystery
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either way, patches are in the ecies branch, where you can also see what I've been working on
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I'm going to take another couple weeks to finish up the remaining parts of ECIES, and implement ECIES tunnels according to the draft spec I wrote up: https://gitlab.com/tini2p/meta/blob/master/docs/ecies-tunnels.md
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**tini2p** I'll also be writing up spec patches for Prop144 ECIES to make it actually match a secure bi-directional protocol like is claimed
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currently, following the spec, it is a one-way protocol with inconsistencies for claims in the "Pairing and Binding" sections
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there are also large inefficiencies in the "pictures" that zzz added for HTTP GET and POST examples
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they are based on how ElGamal currently works, and imho we should not continue these design failings going forward
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there is no legitimate reason to codify the design flaw in specification
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**tini2p** for a review of a recent discussion with zzz on the subject: tini2p/meta#19
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best I can tell, the biggest reason zzz puts forward for a one-way protocol using one-way Noise handshake patterns is "that's how it works in ElGamal/AES+SessionTags" and "0-RTT means sending payloads with the first packet"
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the second reason about 0-RTT I can partially understand, but Noise specifies the IK (two-way pattern) for 0-RTT protocols
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payloads can be sent with the first part of the handshake, making it 0-RTT, even in zzz's definition. however, Noise also specifies finishing the handshake with a reply DH to get the full security benefits of the IK handshake
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see the tables in "Payload Security Properties": https://noiseprotocol.org/noise.html#payload-security-properties
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**tini2p** using the X one-way handshake (never finishing the IK pattern) as zzz suggests weakens the protocol, and leaves it vulnerable to Key Compromise Impersonation attacks
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it also leaves the protocol vulnerable to replay, and only guarantees forward secrecy for the sender
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imo, those are unacceptable for the streaming (bound) versions of ECIES. especially when we have the opportunity to add protections against those vulnerabilities by just adding the other half of a single round trip
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hopefully, zzz will accept the spec diffs, and ECIES-X25519-AEAD-Ratchets will be as strong as it can be
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**tini2p** over the next couple weeks then, I will be writing the spec diffs, implementing ECIES Tunnels, and hopefully releasing alpha
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fingers crossed I won't run into too many more bugs before then
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alpha release will likely only include ECIES-only tunnels, but may include the interop with current ElGamal tunnel building
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when ElGamal interop is in-place, tini2p routers will be able to build tunnels through existing ElGamal routers
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that is the goal at least
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there will still be no client features for alpha release, as I haven't even begun to work on the client-facing functionality
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the goal for alpha is to have end-to-end sessions through some form of tunnels with ECIES routers on both ends of the end-to-end session
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**tini2p** after that is working, I can move onto fuzz testing the living hell out of my implementation, building client features, doing global cleanup, and add logging, etc.
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logging actually may be left to client applications, TBD
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anyway, that's it for this short meeting
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will check in again next Thursday 2019-07-18 18:00 UTC
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@tini2p\_gitlab slides the gaffer slowly across the table
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