X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/c8f419afe4b673ce93b7db07eb3093d8a07afb5f..4f1d23a1aa7aafc5a47988d80dde87c67ec8e1fc:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 84fd54716..f304cf455 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ need to uncomment them if an rpm (or you) installed them in the package controlled locations (/usr/include and /usr/lib). -2. Use the following global settings to configure DMARC: +2. Use the following global options to configure DMARC: Required: dmarc_tld_file Defines the location of a text file of valid @@ -437,6 +437,8 @@ dmarc_tld_file Defines the location of a text file of valid the most current version can be downloaded from a link at http://publicsuffix.org/list/. See also util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script. + The default for the option is currently + /etc/exim/opendmarc.tlds Optional: dmarc_history_file Defines the location of a file to log results @@ -871,41 +873,6 @@ used via the transport in question. -REQUIRETLS support ------------------- -Ref: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-uta-smtp-require-tls-03 - -If compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REQUIRETLS support is included for this -feature, where a REQUIRETLS option is added to the MAIL command. -The client may not retry in clear if the MAIL+REQUIRETLS fails (or was never -offered), and the server accepts an obligation that any onward transmission -by SMTP of the messages accepted will also use REQUIRETLS - or generate a -fail DSN. - -The Exim implementation includes -- a main-part option tls_advertise_requiretls; host list, default "*" -- an observability variable $requiretls returning yes/no -- an ACL "control = requiretls" modifier for setting the requirement -- Log lines and Received: headers capitalise the S in the protocol - element: "P=esmtpS" - -Differences from spec: -- we support upgrading the requirement for REQUIRETLS, including adding - it from cold, within an MTA. The spec only define the sourcing MUA - as being able to source the requirement, and makes no mention of upgrade. -- No support is coded for the RequireTLS header (which can be used - to annul DANE and/or STS policiy). [this can _almost_ be done in - transport option expansions, but not quite: it requires tha DANE-present - but STARTTLS-failing targets fallback to cleartext, which current DANE - coding specifically blocks] - -Note that REQUIRETLS is only advertised once a TLS connection is achieved -(in contrast to STARTTLS). If you want to check the advertising, do something -like "swaks -s 127.0.0.1 -tls -q HELO". - - - - Early pipelining support ------------------------ Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-harris-early-pipe/ @@ -984,6 +951,63 @@ Transport configurations should be checked for this. An example avoidance: +TLS Session Resumption +---------------------- +TLS Session Resumption for TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 connections can be used (defined +in RFC 5077 for 1.2). The support for this can be included by building with +EXPERIMENTAL_TLS_RESUME defined. This requires GnuTLS 3.6.3 or OpenSSL 1.1.1 +(or later). + +Session resumption (this is the "stateless" variant) involves the server sending +a "session ticket" to the client on one connection, which can be stored by the +client and used for a later session. The ticket contains sufficient state for +the server to reconstruct the TLS session, avoiding some expensive crypto +calculation and one full packet roundtrip time. + +Operational cost/benefit: + The extra data being transmitted costs a minor amount, and the client has + extra costs in storing and retrieving the data. + + In the Exim/Gnutls implementation the extra cost on an initial connection + which is TLS1.2 over a loopback path is about 6ms on 2017-laptop class hardware. + The saved cost on a subsequent connection is about 4ms; three or more + connections become a net win. On longer network paths, two or more + connections will have an average lower startup time thanks to the one + saved packet roundtrip. TLS1.3 will save the crypto cpu costs but not any + packet roundtrips. + + Since a new hints DB is used, the hints DB maintenance should be updated + to additionally handle "tls". + +Security aspects: + The session ticket is encrypted, but is obviously an additional security + vulnarability surface. An attacker able to decrypt it would have access + all connections using the resumed session. + The session ticket encryption key is not committed to storage by the server + and is rotated regularly. Tickets have limited lifetime. + + There is a question-mark over the security of the Diffie-Helman parameters + used for session negotiation. TBD. q-value; cf bug 1895 + +Observability: + New log_selector "tls_resumption", appends an asterisk to the tls_cipher "X=" + element. + + Variables $tls_{in,out}_resumption have bits 0-4 indicating respectively + support built, client requested ticket, client offered session, + server issued ticket, resume used. A suitable decode list is provided + in the builtin macro _RESUME_DECODE for ${listextract {}{}}. + +Issues: + In a resumed session: + $tls_{in,out}_certificate_verified will be set, and verify = certificate + will be true, when verify failed but tls_try_verify_hosts allowed the + connection (under OpenSSL) + $tls_{in,out}_cipher will have values different to the original (under GnuTLS) + $tls_{in,out}_ocsp will be "not requested" or "no response", and + hosts_require_ocsp will fail + + -------------------------------------------------------------- End of file --------------------------------------------------------------