When the NTS client and server negotiated use of AES-128-GCM-SIV keys,
the keys exported from the TLS session and used for authentication and
encryption of NTP messages do not comply to RFC8915. The exporter
context value specified in the section 5.1 of RFC8915 function is
incorrect. It is a hardcoded string which contains 15 (AES-SIV-CMAC-256)
instead of 30 (AES-128-GCM-SIV). This causes chrony to not interoperate
with NTS implementations that follow RFC8915 correctly. (At this time,
there doesn't seem to be another implementation with AES-128-GCM-SIV
support yet.)
Replace the string with a proper construction of the exporter context
from a specified AEAD ID and next protocol.
Keep using the incorrect AEAD ID for AES-128-GCM-SIV to not break
compatibility with existing chrony servers and clients. A new NTS-KE
record will be added to negotiate the compliant exporter context.
Reported-by: Martin Mayer <martin.mayer@m2-it-solutions.de>
Log a warning message if the file specified by the keyfile or
ntsserverkey directive is world-readable or writable, which is likely
an insecure misconfiguration. There is no check of directories
containing the file.
Initialization of the gnutls priority cache can fail depending on the
system crypto policy (e.g. disabled TLS1.3). Log an error mentioning
TLS, but continue to run without the server/client credentials.
Certificates can include IP addresses as alternative names to enable
clients to verify such certificates without knowing the hostname.
Accept an IP address as a name in the NTS-NTP client and modify the
session code to not set the SNI in this case.
Session tickets should never be enabled with the currect code on both
clients and servers. Set the GNUTLS_NO_TICKETS flag when opening a TLS
session in case this understanding is wrong, or it changes in future, to
reduce the TLS attack surface.
It seems gnutls (at least in version 3.6.14) allows clients to connect
using TLS1.2 when it has a DTLS version enabled in the priority cache.
Disable all DTLS versions in order to disable TLS1.2.
Add more comments and assertions, replace getsockopt() call with
SCK_GetIntOption(), replace strncmp() with memcmp(), move a return
statement for clarity, and remove an unused field from the instance
record.
Add "nocerttimecheck" directive to specify the number of clock updates
that need to be made before the time validation of certificates is
enabled. This makes NTS usable on machines that don't have a RTC.
Make the NTS-KE retry interval exponentially increasing, using a factor
provided by the NKE session. Use shorter intervals when the server is
refusing TCP connections or the connection is closed or timing out
before the TLS handshake.
The server session instances are reused for different clients. Separate
the server name from the label used in log messages and set it on each
start of the session.
