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<a href="https://gitlab.com/nmav">Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos</a>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC1715" class="line" lang="plaintext">and authentication keys using @funcref{gnutls_session_ticket_key_generate}.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;"> <span id="LC1716" class="line" lang="plaintext">Those keys should be associated with the GnuTLS session using</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC1717" class="line" lang="plaintext">@funcref{gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server}, and should be rotated regularly</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC1718" class="line" lang="plaintext">(e.g., every few hours), to prevent them from becoming long-term keys which</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">-<span id="LC1719" class="line" lang="plaintext">if revealed could be used to decrypt all previous sessions.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1717" class="line" lang="plaintext">@funcref{gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server}.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1719" class="line" lang="plaintext">GnuTLS will rotate these keys regularly. The key rotation interval can be specified with</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1720" class="line" lang="plaintext">@funcref{gnutls_db_set_cache_expiration}. Every such interval, new keys will be generated from the initial keys</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1721" class="line" lang="plaintext">that were first established using @funcref{gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server}. This is</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1722" class="line" lang="plaintext">a necessary mechanism to prevent the keys from becoming long-term keys and as such preserve</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1723" class="line" lang="plaintext">forward-secrecy in the issued session tickets.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1725" class="line" lang="plaintext">The master key and the rotation key mechanism will both survive across forks. Forked processes</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1726" class="line" lang="plaintext">should rotate the key all at the same time and should generate exactly the same new keys.</span>
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<pre style="margin: 0;">+<span id="LC1727" class="line" lang="plaintext">This of course assumes all processes have the same time, which should be true.</span>
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<p dir="auto">What about replacing</p>
<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight plaintext" lang="plaintext" v-pre="true" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: monospace; font-size: 90%; -premailer-cellpadding: 0; -premailer-cellspacing: 0; -premailer-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><code><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext">The master key and the rotation key mechanism will both survive across forks. Forked processes</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">should rotate the key all at the same time and should generate exactly the same new keys.</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">This of course assumes all processes have the same time, which should be true.</span></code></pre>
<p dir="auto">with:</p>
<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight plaintext" lang="plaintext" v-pre="true" style="background-color: #fff; font-family: monospace; font-size: 90%; -premailer-cellpadding: 0; -premailer-cellspacing: 0; -premailer-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><code><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext">The master key can be shared between processes or between systems. Processes which share the same master key</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">will generate the same rotate subkeys, assuming they share the same time.</span></code></pre>
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