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Transport QUIC This document specifies QUIC version 2, which is identical to QUIC version 1 except for some trivial details. Its purpose is to combat various ossification vectors and exercise the version negotiation framework. It also serves as a template for the minimum changes in any future version of QUIC. Note that "version 2" is an informal name for this proposal that indicates it is the second standards-track QUIC version. The protocol specified here will receive a version number other than 2 from IANA. Discussion of this work is encouraged to happen on the QUIC IETF mailing list or on the GitHub repository which contains the draft: . About This Document The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at . Discussion of this document takes place on the QUIC Working Group mailing list (), which is archived at . Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at .

Introduction QUIC has numerous extension points, including the version number that occupies the second through fifth octets of every long header (see ). If experimental versions are rare, and QUIC version 1 constitutes the vast majority of QUIC traffic, there is the potential for middleboxes to ossify on the version octets always being 0x00000001. Furthermore, version 1 Initial packets are encrypted with keys derived from a universally known salt, which allow observers to inspect the contents of these packets, which include the TLS Client Hello and Server Hello messages. Again, middleboxes may ossify on the version 1 key derivation and packet formats. Finally provides two mechanisms for endpoints to negotiate the QUIC version to use. The "incompatible" version negotiation method can support switching from any initial QUIC version to any other version with full generality, at the cost of an additional round-trip at the start of the connection. "Compatible" version negotiation eliminates the round-trip penalty but levies some restrictions on how much the two versions can differ semantically. QUIC version 2 is meant to mitigate ossification concerns and exercise the version negotiation mechanisms. The only change is a tweak to the inputs of some crypto derivation functions to enforce full key separation. Any endpoint that supports two versions needs to implement version negotiation to protect against downgrade attacks. is a more robust, but much more complicated, proposal to address these ossification problems. By design, it requires incompatible version negotiation. QUICv2 enables exercise of compatible version negotiation mechanism.

Conventions 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 .

Changes from QUIC Version 1 QUIC version 2 endpoints MUST implement the QUIC version 1 specification as described in , , and , with the following changes.

Version Field The version field of long headers is 0x709a50c4.

Long Header Packet Types Initial packets use a packet type field of 0b01. 0-RTT packets use a packet type field of 0b10. Handshake packets use a packet type field of 0b11. Retry packets use a packet type field of 0b00.

Cryptography changes

Initial Salt The salt used to derive Initial keys in changes to:

HKDF Labels The labels used in to derive packet protection keys (Section ), header protection keys (Section ), Retry Integrity Tag keys (Section ), and key updates (Section ) change from "quic key" to "quicv2 key", from "quic iv" to "quicv2 iv", from "quic hp" to "quicv2 hp", and from "quic ku" to "quicv2 ku", to meet the guidance for new versions in Section of that document.

Retry Integrity Tag The key and nonce used for the Retry Integrity Tag () change to:

Version Negotiation Considerations QUIC version 2 is not intended to deprecate version 1. Endpoints that support version 2 might continue support for version 1 to maximize compatibility with clients. In particular, HTTP clients often use Alt-Svc to discover QUIC support. As this mechanism does not currently distinguish between QUIC versions, HTTP servers that support multiple versions reduce the probability of incompatibility and the cost associated with QUIC version negotiation or TCP fallback. For example, an origin advertising support for "h3" in Alt-Svc SHOULD support QUIC version 1 as it was the original QUIC version used by HTTP/3 and therefore some clients will only support that version. Any QUIC endpoint that supports multiple versions MUST meet the minimum requirements described in to prevent version downgrade attacks. Note that version 2 meets that document's definition of a compatible version with version 1. Therefore, servers can use compatible negotiation to switch a connection between the two versions. Endpoints that support both versions SHOULD support compatible version negotiation to avoid a round trip.

Compatible Negotiation Requirements Compatible version negotiation between versions 1 and 2 follow the same requirements in either direction. This section uses the terms "original version" and "negotiated version" from . If the server sends a Retry packet, it MUST use the original version. The client ignores Retry packets using other versions. The client MUST NOT use a different version in the subsequent Initial that contains the Retry token. The server MAY encode the QUIC version in its Retry token to validate that the client did not switch versions, and drop the packet if it switched. QUIC version 2 uses the same transport parameters to authenticate the Retry as QUIC version 1. After switching to a negotiated version after a Retry, the server MUST include the relevant transport parameters to validate that the server sent the Retry and the connection IDs used in the exchange, as described in . Note that the version of the first Initial and the subsequent Retry are not authenticated by transport parameters. The server SHOULD start sending its Initial packets using the negotiated version as soon as it decides to change. Before the server is able to process transport parameters from the client, it might need to respond to Initial packets from the client. For these packets the server uses the original version. Once the client has processed a packet using the negotiated version, it SHOULD send subsequent Initial packets using that version. The server MUST NOT discard its original version Initial receive keys until it successfully processes a packet with the negotiated version. Both endpoints MUST send Handshake or 1-RTT packets using the negotiated version. An endpoint MUST drop packets using any other version. Endpoints have no need to generate the keying material that would allow them to decrypt or authenticate these packets. If the server's version_information transport parameter does not contain a Chosen Version field equivalent to the version in the server's Handshake packet headers, the client MUST terminate the connection with a VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR. The client MUST NOT send 0-RTT packets using the negotiated version, even after processing a packet of that version from the server. Servers can apply original version 0-RTT packets to a connection without additional considerations.

TLS Resumption TLS session tickets are specific to the QUIC version of the connection that provided them. Clients MUST NOT use a session ticket from a QUICv1 connection to initiate a QUICv2 connection, or vice versa. Servers SHOULD validate the originating version of any session ticket and not resume from any ticket issued from a different version. This results in falling back to a full TLS handshake, without 0-RTT. After compatible version negotiation, any resulting session ticket maps to the negotiated version rather than original one.

Ossification Considerations QUIC version 2 provides protection against some forms of ossification. Devices that assume that all long headers will contain encode version 1, or that the version 1 Initial key derivation formula will remain version-invariant, will not correctly process version 2 packets. However, many middleboxes such as firewalls focus on the first packet in a connection, which will often remain in the version 1 format due to the considerations above. Clients interested in combating firewall ossification can initiate a connection using version 2 if they are either reasonably certain the server supports it, or are willing to suffer a round-trip penalty if they are incorrect.

Applicability This version of QUIC provides no change from QUIC version 1 relating to the capabilities available to applications. Therefore, all Application Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) () codepoints specified to operate over QUICv1 can also operate over this version of QUIC. All QUIC extensions defined to work with version 1 also work with version 2.

Security Considerations QUIC version 2 introduces no changes to the security or privacy properties of QUIC version 1. The mandatory version negotiation mechanism guards against downgrade attacks, but downgrades have no security implications, as the version properties are identical.

IANA Considerations This document requests that IANA add the following entry to the QUIC version registry: Value: 0x709a50c4 Status: provisional Specification: This Document Change Controller: IETF Contact: QUIC WG

References Normative References This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC provides applications with flow-controlled streams for structured communication, low-latency connection establishment, and network path migration. QUIC includes security measures that ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability in a range of deployment circumstances. Accompanying documents describe the integration of TLS for key negotiation, loss detection, and an exemplary congestion control algorithm. This document describes how Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to secure QUIC. Google LLC Mozilla QUIC does not provide a complete version negotiation mechanism but instead only provides a way for the server to indicate that the version the client offered is unacceptable. This document describes a version negotiation mechanism that allows a client and server to select a mutually supported version. Optionally, if the original and negotiated version share a compatible first flight format, the negotiation can take place without incurring an extra round trip. This document describes loss detection and congestion control mechanisms for QUIC. Informative References This document defines the properties of the QUIC transport protocol that are common to all versions of the protocol. F5 Networks, Inc. The QUIC transport protocol preserves its future extensibility partly by specifying its version number. There will be a relatively small number of published version numbers for the foreseeable future. This document provides a method for clients and servers to negotiate the use of other version numbers in subsequent connections and encrypts Initial Packets using secret keys instead of standard ones. If a sizeable subset of QUIC connections use this mechanism, this should prevent middlebox ossification around the current set of published version numbers and the contents of QUIC Initial packets, as well as improving the protocol's privacy properties. In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. This document specifies "Alternative Services" for HTTP, which allow an origin's resources to be authoritatively available at a separate network location, possibly accessed with a different protocol configuration. This document describes a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension for application-layer protocol negotiation within the TLS handshake. For instances in which multiple application protocols are supported on the same TCP or UDP port, this extension allows the application layer to negotiate which protocol will be used within the TLS connection.

Sample Packet Protection This section shows examples of packet protection so that implementations can be verified incrementally. Samples of Initial packets from both client and server plus a Retry packet are defined. These packets use an 8-byte client-chosen Destination Connection ID of 0x8394c8f03e515708. Some intermediate values are included. All values are shown in hexadecimal.

Keys The labels generated during the execution of the HKDF-Expand-Label function (that is, HkdfLabel.label) and part of the value given to the HKDF-Expand function in order to produce its output are: client in: 00200f746c73313320636c69656e7420696e00 server in: 00200f746c7331332073657276657220696e00 quicv2 key: 001010746c73313320717569637632206b657900 quicv2 iv: 000c0f746c7331332071756963763220697600 quicv2 hp: 00100f746c7331332071756963763220687000 The initial secret is common: The secrets for protecting client packets are: The secrets for protecting server packets are:

Client Initial The client sends an Initial packet. The unprotected payload of this packet contains the following CRYPTO frame, plus enough PADDING frames to make a 1162-byte payload: The unprotected header indicates a length of 1182 bytes: the 4-byte packet number, 1162 bytes of frames, and the 16-byte authentication tag. The header includes the connection ID and a packet number of 2: Protecting the payload produces output that is sampled for header protection. Because the header uses a 4-byte packet number encoding, the first 16 bytes of the protected payload is sampled and then applied to the header as follows: The resulting protected packet is:

Server Initial The server sends the following payload in response, including an ACK frame, a CRYPTO frame, and no PADDING frames: The header from the server includes a new connection ID and a 2-byte packet number encoding for a packet number of 1: As a result, after protection, the header protection sample is taken starting from the third protected byte: The final protected packet is then:

Retry This shows a Retry packet that might be sent in response to the Initial packet in . The integrity check includes the client-chosen connection ID value of 0x8394c8f03e515708, but that value is not included in the final Retry packet:

ChaCha20-Poly1305 Short Header Packet This example shows some of the steps required to protect a packet with a short header. This example uses AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305. In this example, TLS produces an application write secret from which a server uses HKDF-Expand-Label to produce four values: a key, an IV, a header protection key, and the secret that will be used after keys are updated (this last value is not used further in this example). The following shows the steps involved in protecting a minimal packet with an empty Destination Connection ID. This packet contains a single PING frame (that is, a payload of just 0x01) and has a packet number of 654360564. In this example, using a packet number of length 3 (that is, 49140 is encoded) avoids having to pad the payload of the packet; PADDING frames would be needed if the packet number is encoded on fewer bytes. The resulting ciphertext is the minimum size possible. One byte is skipped to produce the sample for header protection. The protected packet is the smallest possible packet size of 21 bytes.

Changelog

• RFC Editor's Note: Please remove this section prior to publication of a final version of this document.

since draft-ietf-quic-v2-00

• Expanded requirements for compatible version negotiation
• Added test vectors
• Greased the packet type codepoints
• Random version number
• Clarified requirement to use QUIC-VN
• Banned use of resumption tokens across versions

since draft-duke-quic-v2-02

• Converted to adopted draft
• Deleted references to QUIC improvements
• Clarified status of QUIC extensions

since draft-duke-quic-v2-01

• Made the final version number TBD.
• Added ALPN considerations

since draft-duke-quic-v2-00

• Added provisional versions for interop
• Change the v1 Retry Tag secret
• Change labels to create full key separation