Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                      F. Palombini
Request for Comments: 9668                                   Ericsson AB
Category: Standards Track                                      M. Tiloca
ISSN: 2070-1721                                               R. Höglund
                                                                 RISE AB
                                                            S. Hristozov
                                                        Fraunhofer AISEC
                                                             G. Selander
                                                                Ericsson
                                                            October 2024

 Using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) with the Constrained
Application Protocol (CoAP) and Object Security for Constrained RESTful
                         Environments (OSCORE)

Abstract

   The lightweight authenticated key exchange protocol Ephemeral Diffie-
   Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) can be run over the Constrained Application
   Protocol (CoAP) and used by two peers to establish a Security Context
   for the security protocol Object Security for Constrained RESTful
   Environments (OSCORE).  This document details this use of the EDHOC
   protocol by specifying a number of additional and optional
   mechanisms, including an optimization approach for combining the
   execution of EDHOC with the first OSCORE transaction.  This
   combination reduces the number of round trips required to set up an
   OSCORE Security Context and to complete an OSCORE transaction using
   that Security Context.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction
     1.1.  Terminology
   2.  EDHOC Overview
   3.  EDHOC Combined with OSCORE
     3.1.  EDHOC Option
     3.2.  Client Processing
       3.2.1.  Processing of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request
       3.2.2.  Supporting Block-Wise Transfers
     3.3.  Server Processing
       3.3.1.  Processing of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request
       3.3.2.  Supporting Block-Wise Transfers
     3.4.  Example of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request
   4.  Use of EDHOC Connection Identifiers with OSCORE
     4.1.  Additional Processing of EDHOC Messages
       4.1.1.  Initiator Processing of Message 1
       4.1.2.  Responder Processing of Message 2
       4.1.3.  Initiator Processing of Message 2
   5.  Extension and Consistency of Application Profiles
   6.  Web Linking
   7.  Security Considerations
   8.  IANA Considerations
     8.1.  CoAP Option Numbers Registry
     8.2.  Target Attributes Registry
     8.3.  EDHOC Authentication Credential Types Registry
     8.4.  Expert Review Instructions
   9.  References
     9.1.  Normative References
     9.2.  Informative References
   Acknowledgments
   Authors' Addresses

1.  Introduction

   Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC) [RFC9528] is a lightweight
   authenticated key exchange protocol that is specifically intended for
   use in constrained scenarios.  In particular, EDHOC messages can be
   transported over the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
   [RFC7252] and used for establishing a Security Context for Object
   Security for Constrained RESTful Environments (OSCORE) [RFC8613].

   This document details the use of the EDHOC protocol with CoAP and
   OSCORE and specifies a number of additional and optional mechanisms.
   These include an optimization approach that combines the EDHOC
   execution with the first OSCORE transaction (see Section 3).  This
   allows for a minimum number of two round trips necessary to set up
   the OSCORE Security Context and complete an OSCORE transaction, e.g.,
   when an Internet of Things (IoT) device gets configured in a network
   for the first time.

   This optimization is desirable since the number of message exchanges
   can have a substantial impact on the latency of conveying the first
   OSCORE request when using certain radio technologies.

   Without this optimization, it is not possible to achieve the minimum
   number of two round trips.  This optimization makes it possible since
   the message_3 of the EDHOC protocol can be made relatively small (see
   Section 1.2 of [RFC9528]), thus allowing additional OSCORE-protected
   CoAP data within target MTU sizes.

   The minimum number of two round trips can be achieved only if the
   default forward message flow of EDHOC is used, i.e., when a CoAP
   client acts as EDHOC Initiator and a CoAP server acts as EDHOC
   Responder.  The performance advantage of using this optimization can
   be lost when used in combination with Block-wise transfers [RFC7959]
   that rely on specific parameter values and block sizes.

   Furthermore, this document defines a number of parameters
   corresponding to different information elements of an EDHOC
   application profile (see Section 6).  These parameters can be
   specified as target attributes in the link to an EDHOC resource
   associated with that application profile, thus enabling an enhanced
   discovery of such a resource for CoAP clients.

1.1.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

   The reader is expected to be familiar with terms and concepts defined
   in CoAP [RFC7252], Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
   [RFC8949], OSCORE [RFC8613], and EDHOC [RFC9528].

2.  EDHOC Overview

   This section is not normative and summarizes what is specified in
   [RFC9528] (specifically Appendix A.2 of [RFC9528]).  Thus, it
   provides a baseline for the enhancements in the subsequent sections.

   The EDHOC protocol specified in [RFC9528] allows two peers to agree
   on a cryptographic secret in a mutually authenticated mutually-authenticated way and
   achieves forward secrecy by using Diffie-Hellman ephemeral keys to achieve forward secrecy. keys.  The
   two peers are denoted as the "Initiator" and "Responder", as the one
   sending or receiving the initial EDHOC message_1, respectively.

   After successful processing of EDHOC message_3, both peers agree on a
   cryptographic secret that can be used to derive further security
   material and establish an OSCORE Security Context [RFC8613].  The
   Responder can also send an optional EDHOC message_4 in order for the
   Initiator to achieve key confirmation, e.g., in deployments where no
   protected application message is sent from the Responder to the
   Initiator.

   Appendix A.2 of [RFC9528] specifies how to transfer EDHOC over CoAP.
   That is, the EDHOC data (i.e., the EDHOC message possibly with a
   prepended connection identifier) is transported in the payload of
   CoAP requests and responses.  The default forward message flow of
   EDHOC consists in the CoAP client acting as Initiator and the CoAP
   server acting as Responder (see Appendix A.2.1 of [RFC9528]).
   Alternatively, the two roles can be reversed as per the reverse
   message flow of EDHOC (see Appendix A.2.2 of [RFC9528]).  In the rest
   of this document, EDHOC messages are considered to be transferred
   over CoAP.

   Figure 1 shows a successful execution of EDHOC, with a CoAP client
   and a CoAP server running EDHOC as Initiator and Responder,
   respectively.  In particular, it extends Figure 10 from
   Appendix A.2.1 of [RFC9528] by highlighting when the two peers
   perform EDHOC verification and establish the OSCORE Security Context,
   and by adding an exchange of OSCORE-protected CoAP messages after
   completing the EDHOC execution.

   That is, the client sends a POST request to a reserved _EDHOC
   resource_ EDHOC resource
   at the server server, by default at the Uri-Path "/.well-known/
   edhoc". "/.well-known/edhoc".  The
   request payload consists of the CBOR simple value true (0xf5)
   concatenated with EDHOC message_1, which also includes the EDHOC
   connection identifier C_I of the client encoded as per Section 3.3 of
   [RFC9528].  The request has Content-Format
   application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq. application/cid-
   edhoc+cbor-seq.

   This triggers the EDHOC execution at the server, which replies with a
   2.04 (Changed) response.  The response payload consists of EDHOC
   message_2, which also includes the EDHOC connection identifier C_R of
   the server encoded as per Section 3.3 of [RFC9528].  The response has
   Content-Format application/edhoc+cbor-seq.

   Finally, the client sends a POST request to the same EDHOC resource
   used earlier when it sent EDHOC message_1.  The request payload
   consists of the EDHOC connection identifier C_R encoded as per
   Section 3.3 of [RFC9528] concatenated with EDHOC message_3.  The
   request has Content-Format application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq.

   After this exchange takes place, and after successful verifications
   as specified in the EDHOC protocol, the client and server can derive
   an OSCORE Security Context as defined in Appendix A.1 of [RFC9528].
   After that, the client and server can use OSCORE to protect their
   communications as per [RFC8613].  Note that the EDHOC Connection
   Identifier connection
   identifier C_R is used as the OSCORE Sender ID of the client (see
   Appendix A.1 of [RFC9528]).  Therefore, C_R is transported in the
   'kid' field of the OSCORE Option option of the OSCORE Request (see
   Section 6.1 of [RFC8613]).

   The client and server are required to agree in advance on certain
   information and parameters describing how they should use EDHOC.
   These are specified in an application profile associated with the
   EDHOC resource addressed (see Section 3.9 of [RFC9528]).

      CoAP client                                         CoAP server
    (EDHOC Initiator)                                 (EDHOC Responder)
           |                                                    |
           |                                                    |
           | ----------------- EDHOC Request -----------------> |
           |   Header: 0.02 (POST)                              |
           |   Uri-Path: "/.well-known/edhoc"                   |
           |   Content-Format: application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq   |
           |   Payload: true, EDHOC message_1                   |
           |                                                    |
           | <---------------- EDHOC Response------------------ |
           |       Header: 2.04 (Changed)                       |
           |       Content-Format: application/edhoc+cbor-seq   |
           |       Payload: EDHOC message_2                     |
           |                                                    |
    EDHOC verification                                          |
           |                                                    |
           | ----------------- EDHOC Request -----------------> |
           |   Header: 0.02 (POST)                              |
           |   Uri-Path: "/.well-known/edhoc"                   |
           |   Content-Format: application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq   |
           |   Payload: C_R, EDHOC message_3                    |
           |                                                    |
           |                                         EDHOC verification
           |                                                    +
           |                                            OSCORE Sec Ctx
           |                                             Derivation
           |                                                    |
           | <---------------- EDHOC Response------------------ |
           |       Header: 2.04 (Changed)                       |
           |       Content-Format: application/edhoc+cbor-seq   |
           |       Payload: EDHOC message_4                     |
           |                                                    |
    OSCORE Sec Ctx                                              |
     Derivation                                                 |
           |                                                    |
           | ---------------- OSCORE Request -----------------> |
           |   Header: 0.02 (POST)                              |
           |   OSCORE: { ... ; kid: C_R }                       |
           |   Payload: OSCORE-protected data                   |
           |                                                    |
           | <--------------- OSCORE Response ----------------- |
           |                 Header: 2.04 (Changed)             |
           |                 OSCORE: { ... }                    |
           |                 Payload: OSCORE-protected data     |
           |                                                    |

      Figure 1: Sequential Flow of EDHOC and OSCORE run sequentially.  The optional with the Optional
                             message_4 is included in this example.

   As shown in Figure 1, this Included

   The sequential flow where of EDHOC is run and OSCORE (where EDHOC runs first and then
   OSCORE is used after) takes three round trips to complete. complete, as shown
   in Figure 1.

   Section 3 defines an optimization for combining EDHOC with the first
   OSCORE transaction.  This reduces the number of round trips required
   to set up an OSCORE Security Context and complete an OSCORE
   transaction using that Security Context.

3.  EDHOC Combined with OSCORE

   This section defines an optimization for combining the EDHOC message
   exchange with the first OSCORE transaction, thus minimizing the
   number of round trips between the two peers to the absolute possible
   minimum of two round trips.

   To this end, this approach can be used only if the default forward
   message flow of EDHOC is used, i.e., when the client acts as
   Initiator and the server acts as Responder.  The same is not possible
   in the case with reversed roles as per the reverse message flow of
   EDHOC.

   When running the sequential flow of Section 2, the client has all the
   information to derive the OSCORE Security Context already after
   receiving EDHOC message_2 and before sending EDHOC message_3.

   Hence, the client can potentially send both EDHOC message_3 and the
   subsequent OSCORE Request at the same time.  On a semantic level,
   this requires sending two REST requests at once as shown in Figure 2.

     CoAP client                                          CoAP server
   (EDHOC Initiator)                                  (EDHOC Responder)
          |                                                     |
          | ------------------ EDHOC Request -----------------> |
          |   Header: 0.02 (POST)                               |
          |   Uri-Path: "/.well-known/edhoc"                    |
          |   Content-Format: application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq    |
          |   Payload: true, EDHOC message_1                    |
          |                                                     |
          | <----------------- EDHOC Response------------------ |
          |        Header: Changed (2.04) 2.04 (Changed)                       |
          |        Content-Format: application/edhoc+cbor-seq   |
          |        Payload: EDHOC message_2                     |
          |                                                     |
   EDHOC verification                                           |
          +                                                     |
    OSCORE Sec Ctx                                              |
      Derivation                                                |
          |                                                     |
          | -------------- EDHOC + OSCORE Request ------------> |
          |   Header: 0.02 (POST)                               |
          |   OSCORE: { ... ; kid: C_R }                        |
          |   Payload: EDHOC message_3 + OSCORE-protected data  |
          |                                                     |
          |                                          EDHOC verification
          |                                                     +
          |                                            OSCORE Sec Ctx
          |                                               Derivation
          |                                                     |
          | <--------------- OSCORE Response ------------------ |
          |                    Header: 2.04 (Changed)           |
          |                    OSCORE: { ... }                  |
          |                    Payload: OSCORE-protected data   |
          |                                                     |

                    Figure 2: EDHOC and OSCORE Combined

   To this end, the specific approach defined in this section consists
   of sending a single EDHOC + OSCORE request, which conveys the pair
   (C_R, EDHOC message_3) within an OSCORE-protected CoAP message.

   That is, the EDHOC + OSCORE request is composed of the following two
   parts combined together in a single CoAP message.  The steps for
   processing the EDHOC + OSCORE request and the two parts combined in
   there
   the request itself are defined in Sections 3.2.1 and 3.3.1.

   *  The OSCORE Request from Figure 1, which, in this case, is also
      sent to a protected resource with the correct CoAP method and
      options intended for accessing that resource.

   *  EDHOC data consisting of the pair (C_R, EDHOC message_3) required
      for completing the EDHOC session transported as follows:

      -  C_R is the OSCORE Sender ID of the client; hence, it is
         transported in the 'kid' field of the OSCORE Option option (see
         Section 6.1 of [RFC8613]).  Unlike the sequential workflow
         shown in Figure 1, C_R is not transported in the payload of the
         EDHOC + OSCORE request.

      -  EDHOC message_3 is transported in the payload of the EDHOC +
         OSCORE request and prepended to the payload of the OSCORE
         Request.  This is because EDHOC message_3 may be too large to
         be included in a CoAP Option, option, e.g., when conveying a large
         public key certificate chain such as in the ID_CRED_I field (see
         Section 3.5.3 of [RFC9528]), or when conveying large External
         Authorization Data such as in the EAD_3 field (see Section 3.8 of
         [RFC9528]).

   The rest of this section specifies how to transport the data in the
   EDHOC + OSCORE request and their processing order.  In particular,
   the use of this approach is explicitly signalled by including an
   EDHOC Option option (Section 3.1) in the EDHOC + OSCORE request.  The
   processing of the EDHOC + OSCORE request is specified in Section 3.2
   for the client side and in Section 3.3 for the server side.

3.1.  EDHOC Option

   This section defines the EDHOC Option. option.  This option is used in a CoAP
   request to signal that the request payload conveys both an EDHOC
   message_3 and OSCORE-protected data: data combined together.

   The EDHOC Option option has the properties summarized in Table 1, which
   extends Table 4 of [RFC7252].  The option is Critical, Safe-to-
   Forward, and part of the Cache-Key.  The option MUST occur at most
   once and MUST be empty.  If any value is sent, the recipient MUST
   ignore it.  (Future documents may update the definition of the option
   by expanding its semantics and specifying admitted values.)  The
   option is intended only for CoAP requests and is of Class U for
   OSCORE [RFC8613].

        +=====+===+===+===+===+=======+========+========+=========+
        | No. | C | U | N | R | Name  | Format | Length | Default |
        +=====+===+===+===+===+=======+========+========+=========+
        | 21  | x |   |   |   | EDHOC | Empty  | 0      | (none)  |
        +-----+---+---+---+---+-------+--------+--------+---------+

             Table 1: The EDHOC Option

   C=Critical
   U=Unsafe
   N=NoCacheKey Option.  C=Critical, U=Unsafe,
                         N=NoCacheKey, R=Repeatable

   The presence of this option means that the message payload also
   contains EDHOC data that must be extracted and processed as defined
   in Section 3.3 before the rest of the message can be processed.

   Figure 3 shows an example of a CoAP message that is transported over
   UDP and that contains both the EDHOC data and the OSCORE ciphertext
   using the newly defined EDHOC option for signalling.

      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |Ver| T |  TKL  |      Code     |          Message ID           |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | Token (if any, TKL bytes) ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | Observe Option| OSCORE Option ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     | EDHOC Option  | Other Options (if any) ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1| Payload ...
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

     Figure 3: Example of a CoAP Message Transported over UDP Combining Containing the Combined EDHOC Data
       and OSCORE Data as Data, Signalled with by the EDHOC Option and Transported
                                  over UDP

3.2.  Client Processing

   This section describes the processing on the client side.

3.2.1.  Processing of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request

   The client prepares an EDHOC + OSCORE request as follows.

   Step 1.  Compose EDHOC message_3 into EDHOC_MSG_3 as per
            Section 5.4.2 of [RFC9528].

   Step 2.  Establish the new OSCORE Security Context and use it to
            encrypt the original CoAP request as per Section 8.1 of
            [RFC8613].

            Note that the OSCORE ciphertext is not computed over EDHOC
            message_3, which is not protected by OSCORE.  That is, the
            result of this step is the OSCORE Request as in Figure 1.

   Step 3.  Build COMB_PAYLOAD as the concatenation of EDHOC_MSG_3 and
            OSCORE_PAYLOAD in the order of COMB_PAYLOAD = EDHOC_MSG_3 |
            OSCORE_PAYLOAD, where | denotes byte string concatenation
            and:

            *  EDHOC_MSG_3 is the binary encoding of EDHOC message_3
               resulting from Step 1.  As per Section 5.4.1 of
               [RFC9528], EDHOC message_3 consists of one CBOR data item
               CIPHERTEXT_3, which is a CBOR byte string.  Therefore,
               EDHOC_MSG_3 is the binary encoding of CIPHERTEXT_3.

            *  OSCORE_PAYLOAD is the OSCORE ciphertext of the OSCORE-
               protected CoAP request resulting from Step 2.

   Step 4.  Compose the EDHOC + OSCORE request, as the OSCORE-protected
            CoAP request resulting from Step 2, where the payload is
            replaced with COMB_PAYLOAD built at Step 3.

            Note that the new payload includes EDHOC message_3, but it
            does not include the EDHOC connection identifier C_R.  As
            the client is the EDHOC Initiator, C_R is the OSCORE Sender
            ID of the client, which is already specified as the value of
            the 'kid' field in the OSCORE Option option of the request from
            Step 2, hence 2; hence, C_R is specified as the value of the 'kid'
            field of the EDHOC + OSCORE request.

   Step 5.  Include the new EDHOC Option option defined in Section 3.1 into the
            EDHOC + OSCORE request.

            The application/cid-edhoc+cbor-seq media type does not apply
            to this message, whose media type is unnamed.

   Step 6.  Send the EDHOC + OSCORE request to the server.

   With the same server, the client SHOULD NOT have multiple
   simultaneous outstanding interactions (see Section 4.7 of [RFC7252]),
   such that they consist of an EDHOC + OSCORE request and their EDHOC
   data pertains to the EDHOC session with the same connection
   identifier C_R.

   An exception might apply for clients that operate under particular
   time constraints over particularly unreliable networks, thus raising
   the chances to promptly complete the EDHOC execution with the server
   through multiple simultaneous EDHOC + OSCORE requests.  As discussed
   in Section 7, this does not have any impact in terms of security.

3.2.2.  Supporting Block-Wise Transfers

   If Block-wise transfers [RFC7959] is are supported, the client may
   fragment the first application CoAP application request before protecting it as
   an original message with OSCORE as defined in Section 4.1.3.4.1 of
   [RFC8613].

   In such a case, the OSCORE processing in Step 2 of Section 3.2.1 is
   performed on each inner block of the first application CoAP application request.
   The following also applies.

   *  The client takes the following additional step between Steps 2 and
      3 of Section 3.2.1.

      -

      Step 2.1. If the OSCORE-protected request from Step 2 conveys a
                non-first inner block of the first application CoAP application
                request (i.e., the Block1 Option option processed at Step 2 had
                NUM different than 0), then the client skips the
                following steps and sends the OSCORE-
         protected OSCORE-protected request
                to the server.  In particular, the client MUST NOT
                include the EDHOC Option option in the OSCORE-protected
                request.

   *  The client takes the following additional step between Steps 3 and
      4 of Section 3.2.1.

      -

      Step 3.1. If the size of COMB_PAYLOAD exceeds
                MAX_UNFRAGMENTED_SIZE (see Section 4.1.3.4.2 of
                [RFC8613]), the client MUST stop processing the request
                and MUST abandon the Block-wise transfer.  Then, the
                client can continue by switching to the sequential
                workflow shown in Figure 1.  That is, the client first
                sends EDHOC message_3 prepended by the EDHOC Connection
         Identifier connection
                identifier C_R encoded as per Section 3.3 of [RFC9528].
                Then, the client sends the OSCORE-protected CoAP request
                once the EDHOC execution is completed.

   The performance advantage of using the EDHOC + OSCORE request can be
   lost when used in combination with Block-wise transfers that rely on
   specific parameter values and block sizes.  Application policies at
   the CoAP client can define when and how to detect whether the
   performance advantage is lost.  If that is the case, they can also
   define whether to appropriately adjust the parameter values and block
   sizes or to fall back on the sequential workflow of EDHOC.

3.3.  Server Processing

   This section describes the processing on the server side.

3.3.1.  Processing of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request

   In order to process a request containing the EDHOC option, i.e., an
   EDHOC + OSCORE request, the server MUST perform the following steps.

   Step 1.  Check that the EDHOC + OSCORE request includes the OSCORE
            option and that the request payload has the format defined
            at Step 3 of Section 3.2.1 for COMB_PAYLOAD.  If this is not
            the case, the server MUST stop processing the request and
            MUST reply with a 4.00 (Bad Request) error response.

   Step 2.  Extract EDHOC message_3 from the payload COMB_PAYLOAD of the
            EDHOC + OSCORE request as the first element EDHOC_MSG_3 (see
            Step 3 of Section 3.2.1).

   Step 3.  Take the value of the 'kid' field from the OSCORE option of
            the EDHOC + OSCORE request (i.e., the OSCORE Sender ID of
            the client), and use it as the EDHOC connection identifier
            C_R.

   Step 4.  Retrieve the correct EDHOC session by using the connection
            identifier C_R from Step 3.

            If the application profile used in the EDHOC session
            specifies that EDHOC message_4 shall be sent, the server
            MUST stop the EDHOC processing and consider it failed due to
            a client error.

            Otherwise, perform the EDHOC processing on the EDHOC
            message_3 extracted at Step 2 as per Section 5.4.3 of
            [RFC9528] based on the protocol state of the retrieved EDHOC
            session.

            The application profile used in the EDHOC session is the
            same one associated with the EDHOC resource where the server
            received the request conveying EDHOC message_1 that started
            the session.  This is relevant in case the server provides
            multiple EDHOC resources that may generally refer to
            different application profiles.

   Step 5.  Establish a new OSCORE Security Context associated with the
            client as per Appendix A.1 of [RFC9528] using the EDHOC
            output from Step 4.

   Step 6.  Extract the OSCORE ciphertext from the payload COMB_PAYLOAD
            of the EDHOC + OSCORE request as the second element
            OSCORE_PAYLOAD (see Step 3 of Section 3.2.1).

   Step 7.  Rebuild the OSCORE-protected CoAP request as the EDHOC +
            OSCORE request, where the payload is replaced with the
            OSCORE ciphertext extracted at Step 6.  Then, remove the
            EDHOC option.

   Step 8.  Decrypt and verify the OSCORE-protected CoAP request rebuilt
            at Step 7 as per Section 8.2 of [RFC8613] by using the
            OSCORE Security Context established at Step 5.

            When the decrypted request is checked for any critical CoAP
            options (as it is during regular CoAP processing), the
            presence of an EDHOC option MUST be regarded as an
            unprocessed critical option unless it is processed by some
            further mechanism.

   Step 9.  Deliver the CoAP request resulting from Step 8 to the
            application.

   If Steps 4 (EDHOC processing) and 8 (OSCORE processing) are both
   successfully completed, the server MUST reply with an OSCORE-
   protected response (see Section 5.4.3 of [RFC9528]).  The usage of
   EDHOC message_4 as defined in Section 5.5 of [RFC9528] is not
   applicable to the approach defined in this document.

   If Step 4 (EDHOC processing) fails, the server aborts the session as
   per Section 5.4.3 of [RFC9528] and responds with an EDHOC error
   message with error code 1, which is formatted as defined in
   Section 6.2 of [RFC9528].  The server MUST NOT establish a new OSCORE
   Security Context from the present EDHOC session with the client.  The
   CoAP response conveying the EDHOC error message is not protected with
   OSCORE.  As per Section 9.5 of [RFC9528], the server has to make sure
   that the error message does not reveal sensitive information.  The
   CoAP response conveying the EDHOC error message MUST have Content-
   Format set to application/edhoc+cbor-seq registered in Section 10.9
   of [RFC9528].

   If Step 4 (EDHOC processing) is successfully completed but Step 8
   (OSCORE processing) fails, the same OSCORE error handling as defined
   in Section 8.2 of [RFC8613] applies.

3.3.2.  Supporting Block-Wise Transfers

   If Block-wise transfers [RFC7959] is are supported, the server takes the
   additional following step before any other in Section 3.3.1.

   *

   Step 0.  If Block-wise a Block option is present in the request, then process
            the Outer Block options according to [RFC7959] until all
            blocks of the request have been received (see
            Section 4.1.3.4 of [RFC8613]).

3.4.  Example of the EDHOC + OSCORE Request

   Figure 4 shows an example of an EDHOC + OSCORE Request request transported
   over UDP.  In particular, the example assumes that:

   *  The OSCORE Partial IV in use is 0 consistently with the first
      request protected with the new OSCORE Security Context.

   *  The OSCORE Sender ID of the client is 0x01.

      As per Section 3.3.3 of [RFC9528], this straightforwardly
      corresponds to the EDHOC connection identifier C_R 0x01.

      As per Section 3.3.2 of [RFC9528], when using the sequential flow
      shown in Figure 1, the same C_R with a value of 0x01 would be
      encoded on the wire as the CBOR integer 1 (0x01 in CBOR encoding)
      and prepended to EDHOC message_3 in the payload of the second
      EDHOC request.

   This results in the following components shown in Figure 4:

   OSCORE option value:  0x090001 (3 bytes)

   EDHOC option value:  - (0 bytes)

   EDHOC message_3:  0x52d5535f3147e85f1cfacd9e78abf9e0a81bbf (19 bytes)

   OSCORE ciphertext:  0x612f1092f1776f1c1668b3825e (13 bytes)

   Protected CoAP request (OSCORE message):  See Figure 4.

      0x44025d1f               ; CoAP 4-byte header Header
        00003974               ; Token
        93 090001              ; OSCORE Option
        c0                     ; EDHOC Option
        ff 52d5535f3147e85f1cfacd9e78abf9e0a81bbf
           612f1092f1776f1c1668b3825e
      (46 bytes)

     Figure 4: Example of a Protected CoAP Message Transported over UDP, Request Combining EDHOC Data and
                                OSCORE Data as Signalled with the EDHOC Option

4.  Use of EDHOC Connection Identifiers with OSCORE

   The OSCORE Sender/Recipient IDs are the EDHOC connection identifiers
   (see Section 3.3.3 of [RFC9528]).  This applies also to the optimized
   workflow defined in Section 3 of this document.

   Note that the value of the 'kid' field in the OSCORE Option option of the
   EDHOC + OSCORE request is both the server's Recipient ID (i.e., the
   client's Sender ID) and the EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier C_R of the
   server at Step 3 of Section 3.3.1.

4.1.  Additional Processing of EDHOC Messages

   When using EDHOC to establish an OSCORE Security Context, the client
   and server MUST perform the following additional steps during an
   EDHOC execution, thus extending Section 5 of [RFC9528].

4.1.1.  Initiator Processing of Message 1

   The Initiator selects an EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier C_I as follows.

   The Initiator MUST choose a C_I that is neither used in any current
   EDHOC session as this peer's EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier nor the
   Recipient ID in a current OSCORE Security Context where the ID
   Context is not present.

   The chosen C_I SHOULD NOT be the Recipient ID of any current OSCORE
   Security Context.  Note that, unless the two peers concurrently use
   alternative methods to establish OSCORE Security Contexts, this
   allows the Responder to always omit the 'kid context' in the OSCORE
   Option
   option of its messages sent to the Initiator when protecting those
   with an OSCORE Security Context where C_I is the Responder's OSCORE
   Sender ID (see Section 6.1 of [RFC8613]).

4.1.2.  Responder Processing of Message 2

   The Responder selects an EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier C_R as follows.

   The Responder MUST choose a C_R that is none of the following:

   *  used in any current EDHOC session as this peer's EDHOC Connection
      Identifier, connection
      identifier,

   *  equal to the EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier C_I specified in the
      EDHOC message_1 of the present EDHOC session, or

   *  the Recipient ID in a current OSCORE Security Context where the ID
      Context is not present.

   The chosen C_R SHOULD NOT be the Recipient ID of any current OSCORE
   Security Context.  Note that, for a reason analogous to the one given
   above
   in Section 4.1.1 with C_I, this allows the Initiator to always omit
   the 'kid context' in the OSCORE Option option of its messages sent to the
   Responder when protecting those with an OSCORE Security Context where
   C_R is the Initiator's OSCORE Sender ID (see Section 6.1 of
   [RFC8613]).

4.1.3.  Initiator Processing of Message 2

   If the EDHOC Connection Identifier connection identifier C_I is equal to the EDHOC
   Connection Identifier
   connection identifier C_R specified in EDHOC message_2, then the
   Initiator MUST abort the session and reply with an EDHOC error
   message with error code 1 formatted as defined in Section 6.2 of
   [RFC9528].

5.  Extension and Consistency of Application Profiles

   It is possible to include the information below in the application
   profile referred by the client and server according to the specified
   consistency rules.

   If the server supports the EDHOC + OSCORE request within an EDHOC
   execution started at a certain EDHOC resource, then the application
   profile associated with that resource SHOULD explicitly specify
   support for the EDHOC + OSCORE request.

   In the case where the application profile indicates that the server
   supports the optional EDHOC message_4 (see Section 5.5 of [RFC9528]),
   it is still possible to use the optimized workflow based on the EDHOC
   + OSCORE request.  However, this means that the server is not going
   to send EDHOC message_4 since it is not applicable to the optimized
   workflow (see Section 3.3.1).

   Also, in the case where the application profile indicates that the
   server shall send EDHOC message_4, the application profile MUST NOT
   specify support for the EDHOC + OSCORE request.  There is no point
   for the client to use the optimized workflow that is bound to fail
   (see Section 3.3.1).

6.  Web Linking

   Section 10.10 of [RFC9528] registers the resource type "core.edhoc",
   which can be used as target attribute in a web link [RFC8288] to an
   EDHOC resource, e.g., using a link-format document [RFC6690].  This
   enables clients to discover the presence of EDHOC resources at a
   server, possibly using the resource type as a filter criterion.

   At the same time, the application profile associated with an EDHOC
   resource provides information describing how the EDHOC protocol can
   be used through that resource.  A client may become aware of the
   application profile, e.g., by obtaining its information elements upon
   discovering the EDHOC resources at the server.  This allows the
   client to discover the EDHOC resources whose associated application
   profile denotes a way of using EDHOC that is most suitable to the
   client, e.g., with EDHOC cipher suites or authentication methods that
   the client also supports or prefers.

   That is, while discovering an EDHOC resource, a client can
   contextually obtain relevant pieces of information from the
   application profile associated with that resource.  The resource
   discovery can occur by means of a direct interaction with the server
   or by means of the CoRE Resource Directory [RFC9176] where the server
   may have registered the links to its resources.

   In order to enable the above, this section defines a number of
   parameters, each of which can be optionally specified as a target
   attribute with the same name in the link to the respective EDHOC
   resource or as filter criteria criterion in a discovery request from the
   client.  When specifying these parameters in a link to an EDHOC
   resource, the target attribute rt="core.edhoc" MUST be included and
   the same consistency rules defined in Section 5 for the corresponding
   information elements of an application profile MUST be followed.

   The following parameters are defined.

   'ed-i':  If present, specifies that the server supports the EDHOC
      Initiator role, hence the reverse message flow of EDHOC.  A value
      MUST NOT be given to this parameter and any present value MUST be
      ignored by the recipient.

   'ed-r':  If present, specifies that the server supports the EDHOC
      Responder role, hence the forward message flow of EDHOC.  A value
      MUST NOT be given to this parameter and any present value MUST be
      ignored by the recipient.

   'ed-method':  Specifies an authentication method supported by the
      server.  This parameter MUST specify a single value, which is
      taken from the 'Value' column of the "EDHOC Method Type" registry
      defined in Section 10.3 of [RFC9528].  This parameter MAY occur
      multiple times, with each occurrence specifying an authentication
      method.

   'ed-csuite':  Specifies an EDHOC cipher suite supported by the
      server.  This parameter MUST specify a single value, which is
      taken from the 'Value' column of the "EDHOC Cipher Suites"
      registry defined in Section 10.2 of [RFC9528].  This parameter MAY
      occur multiple times, with each occurrence specifying a cipher
      suite.

   'ed-cred-t':  Specifies a type of authentication credential supported
      by the server.  This parameter MUST specify a single value, which
      is taken from the 'Value' column of the "EDHOC Authentication
      Credential Types" Registry defined in Section 8.3 of this
      document.  This parameter MAY occur multiple times, with each
      occurrence specifying a type of authentication credential.

   'ed-idcred-t':  Specifies a type of identifier supported by the
      server for identifying authentication credentials.  This parameter
      MUST specify a single value, which is taken from the 'Label'
      column of the "COSE Header Parameters" registry
      [COSE.Header.Parameters].  This parameter MAY occur multiple
      times, with each occurrence specifying a type of identifier for
      authentication credentials.

      Note that the values in the 'Label' column of the "COSE Header
      Parameters" registry are strongly typed.  On the contrary, CoRE
      Link Format is weakly typed; thus, it does not distinguish
      between, for instance, the string value -10 "-10" and the integer
      value -10.  Therefore, if responses in CoRE Link Format are
      returned, string values that look like an integer are not
      supported.  Thus, such values MUST NOT be used in the 'ed-idcred-t' 'ed-idcred-
      t' parameter.

   'ed-ead':  Specifies the support of the server for an External
      Authorization Data (EAD) item (see Section 3.8 of [RFC9528]).
      This parameter MUST specify a single value, which is taken from
      the 'Label' column of the "EDHOC External Authorization Data"
      registry defined in Section 10.5 of [RFC9528].  This parameter MAY
      occur multiple times, with each occurrence specifying the
      'ead_label'
      ead_label of an EAD item that the server supports.

   'ed-comb-req':  If present, specifies that the server supports the
      EDHOC + OSCORE request defined in Section 3.  A value MUST NOT be
      given to this parameter and any present value MUST be ignored by
      the recipient.

   Future documents may update the definition of the parameters 'ed-i',
   'ed-r', and 'ed-comb-req' by expanding their semantics and specifying
   what they can take as value.

   The example in Figure 5 shows how a client discovers one EDHOC
   resource at a server and obtains information elements from the
   respective application profile.  The Link-Format CoRE Link Format notation from
   Section 5 of [RFC6690] is used.

      REQ: GET /.well-known/core

      RES: 2.05 Content
          </sensors/temp>;osc,
          </sensors/light>;if=sensor,
          </.well-known/edhoc>;rt=core.edhoc;ed-csuite=0;ed-csuite=2;
              ed-method=0;ed-cred-t=1;ed-cred-t=3;ed-idcred-t=4;
              ed-method=0;ed-cred-t=0;ed-cred-t=1;ed-idcred-t=4;
              ed-i;ed-r;ed-comb-req

                           Figure 5: The Web Link

7.  Security Considerations

   The same security considerations from OSCORE [RFC8613] and EDHOC
   [RFC9528] hold for this document.  In addition, the following
   considerations also apply.

   Section 3.2.1 specifies that a client SHOULD NOT have multiple
   outstanding EDHOC + OSCORE requests pertaining to the same EDHOC
   session.  Even if a client did not fulfill this requirement, it would
   not have any impact in terms of security.  That is, the server would
   still not process different instances of the same EDHOC message_3
   more than once in the same EDHOC session (see Section 5.1 of
   [RFC9528]) and would still enforce replay protection of the OSCORE-
   protected request (see Sections 7.4 and 8.2 of [RFC8613]).

   When using the optimized workflow in Figure 2, a minimum of 128-bit
   security against online brute-force attacks is achieved after the
   client receives and successfully verifies the first OSCORE-protected
   response (see Sections 9.1 and 9.4 of [RFC9528]).  As an example, if
   EDHOC is used with method 3 (see Section 3.2 of [RFC9528]) and cipher
   suite 2 (see Section 3.6 of [RFC9528]), then the following holds:

   *  The Initiator is authenticated with 128-bit security against
      online attacks.  As per Section 9.1 of [RFC9528], this results
      from the combination of the strength of the 64-bit Message
      Authentication Code (MAC) in EDHOC message_3 and of the 64-bit MAC
      in the Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) of the
      first OSCORE-protected CoAP request as rebuilt at Step 7 of
      Section 3.3.1.

   *  The Responder is authenticated with 128-bit security against
      online attacks.  As per Section 9.1 of [RFC9528], this results
      from the combination of the strength of the 64-bit MAC in EDHOC
      message_2 and of the 64-bit MAC in the AEAD of the first OSCORE-
      protected CoAP response.

   With reference to the sequential workflow in Figure 1, the OSCORE
   request might have to undergo access-control checks at the server
   before being actually executed for accessing the target protected
   resource.  The same MUST hold when the optimized workflow in Figure 2
   is used, i.e., when using the EDHOC + OSCORE request.

   That is, the rebuilt OSCORE-protected application request from Step 7
   in Section 3.3.1 MUST undergo the same access-control checks that
   would be performed on a traditional OSCORE-protected application
   request sent individually as shown in Figure 1.

   To this end, validated information to perform access-control checks
   (e.g., an access token issued by a trusted party) has to be available
   at the server before starting to process the rebuilt OSCORE-protected
   application request.  Such information may have been provided to the
   server separately before starting the EDHOC execution altogether, or
   instead,
   instead as External Authorization Data during the EDHOC execution
   (see Section 3.8 of [RFC9528]).

   Thus, a successful completion of the EDHOC protocol and the following
   derivation of the OSCORE Security Context at the server do not play a
   role in determining whether the rebuilt OSCORE-protected request is
   authorized to access the target protected resource at the server.

8.  IANA Considerations

   This document has the following actions for IANA.

8.1.  CoAP Option Numbers Registry

   IANA has registered the following option number in the "CoAP Option
   Numbers" registry within the "Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE)
   Parameters" registry group.

                      +========+=======+===========+
                      | Number | Name  | Reference |
                      +========+=======+===========+
                      | 21     | EDHOC | RFC 9668  |
                      +--------+-------+-----------+

                         Table 2: Registration in
                        the "CoAP Option Numbers"
                                 Registry

8.2.  Target Attributes Registry

   IANA has registered the following entries in the "Target Attributes"
   registry [CORE.Target.Attributes] within the "Constrained RESTful
   Environments (CoRE) Parameters" registry group as per [RFC9423].  For
   all entries, the Change Controller is "IETF" and the reference is
   "RFC 9668".
   "[RFC 9668]".

     +================+=============================================+
     | Attribute Name | Brief Description                           |
     +================+=============================================+
     | ed-i           | Hint: support for the EDHOC Initiator role  |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-r           | Hint: support for the EDHOC Responder role  |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-method      | A supported authentication method for EDHOC |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-csuite      | A supported cipher suite for EDHOC          |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-cred-t      | A supported type of authentication          |
     |                | credential for EDHOC                        |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-idcred-t    | A supported type of authentication          |
     |                | credential identifier for EDHOC             |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-ead         | A supported External Authorization Data     |
     |                | (EAD) item for EDHOC                        |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+
     | ed-comb-req    | Hint: support for the EDHOC + OSCORE        |
     |                | request                                     |
     +----------------+---------------------------------------------+

        Table 3: Registrations in the "Target Attributes" Registry

8.3.  EDHOC Authentication Credential Types Registry

   IANA has created the "EDHOC Authentication Credential Types" registry
   within the "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)" registry
   group defined in [RFC9528].

   The registration policy is either "Private Use", "Standards Action
   with Expert
   Review" Review", or "Specification Required" per [RFC8126].
   "Expert Review" guidelines are provided in Section 8.4.

   All assignments according to "Standards Action with Expert Review"
   are made on a "Standards Action" basis per Section 4.9 of [RFC8126]
   with "Expert Review" additionally required per Section 4.5 of
   [RFC8126].  The procedure for early IANA allocation of "standards
   track code points" defined in [RFC7120] also applies.  When such a
   procedure is used, review and approval by IANA will ask the designated expert are
   also required in order for expert(s) to approve
   the early allocation before registration.  In addition, working group
   chairs are encouraged to determine that consult the conditions for expert(s) early allocation are met (see Step 2 during the
   process outlined in Section 3.1 of [RFC7120]). [RFC7120].

   The columns of this registry are:

   Value:  This field contains the value used to identify the type of
      authentication credential.  These values MUST be unique.  The
      value can be an unsigned integer or a negative integer in the
      range from -65536 to 65535. integer.  Different
      ranges of values use different registration policies:

      *  Integer values from -24 to 23 are designated as "Standards
         Action With Expert Review".

      *  Integer values from -65536 to -25 and from 24 to 65535 are
         designated as "Specification Required".

      *  Integer values smaller than -65536 and greater than 65535 are
         marked as "Private Use".

   Description:  This field contains a short description of the type of
      authentication credential.

   Reference:  This field contains a pointer to the public specification
      for the type of authentication credential.

    +=======+============================================+===========+
    | Value | Description                                | Reference |
    +=======+============================================+===========+
    | 0     | CBOR Web Token (CWT) containing a COSE_Key | [RFC8392] |
    |       | in a 'cnf' claim and possibly other        |           |
    |       | claims.  CWT is defined in RFC 8392.       |           |
    +-------+--------------------------------------------+-----------+
    | 1     | CWT Claims Set (CCS) containing a COSE_Key | [RFC8392] |
    |       | in a 'cnf' claim and possibly other        |           |
    |       | claims.  CCS is defined in RFC 8392.       |           |
    +-------+--------------------------------------------+-----------+
    | 2     | X.509 certificate                          | [RFC5280] |
    +-------+--------------------------------------------+-----------+

          Table 4: Initial Entries in the "EDHOC Authentication
                        Credential Types" Registry

8.4.  Expert Review Instructions

   The IANA registry established in Section 8.3 is defined as using

   "Standards Action with Expert Review" or and "Specification Required" as
   a Registration Procedure depending on the range
   are two of values the registration policies defined for which
   an assignment is requested. the IANA registry
   established in Section 8.3.  This section gives some general
   guidelines for what the experts should be looking for; however, they
   are being designated as experts for a reason, so they should be given
   substantial latitude.

   Expert reviewers should take into consideration the following points:

   *  Clarity and correctness of registrations.  Experts are expected to
      check the clarity of purpose and use of the requested entries.
      Experts need to make sure that registered identifiers indicate a
      type of authentication credential whose format and encoding is
      clearly defined in the corresponding specification.  Identifiers
      of types of authentication credentials that do not meet these
      objectives of clarity and completeness must not be registered.

   *  Point squatting should be discouraged.  Reviewers are encouraged
      to get sufficient information for registration requests to ensure
      that the usage is not going to duplicate one that is already
      registered and that the point is likely to be used in deployments.
      The zones tagged as "Private Use" are intended for testing
      purposes and closed environments.  Code points in other ranges
      should not be assigned for testing.

   *  Specifications are required for the "Standards Action With Expert
      Review" range of point assignment.  Specifications should exist
      for "Specification Required" ranges, but early assignment before a
      specification is available is considered to be permissible.  When
      specifications are not provided, the description provided needs to
      have sufficient information to identify what the point is being
      used for.

   *  Experts should take into account the expected usage of fields when
      approving point assignment.  The fact that there is a range for
      Standards Track documents does not mean that a  Documents published via Standards Track
      document cannot have
      Action can also register points assigned outside of that the Standards Action
      range.  The length of the encoded value should be weighed against
      how many code points of that length are left, the size of device
      it will be used on, and the number of code points left that encode
      to that size.

9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

   [CORE.Target.Attributes]
              IANA, "Target Attributes",
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/core-parameters>.

   [COSE.Header.Parameters]
              IANA, "COSE Header Parameters",
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/cose>.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC5280]  Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
              (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.

   [RFC6690]  Shelby, Z., "Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Link
              Format", RFC 6690, DOI 10.17487/RFC6690, August 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6690>.

   [RFC7120]  Cotton, M., "Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code
              Points", BCP 100, RFC 7120, DOI 10.17487/RFC7120, January
              2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7120>.

   [RFC7252]  Shelby, Z., Hartke, K., and C. Bormann, "The Constrained
              Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7252,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7252, June 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7252>.

   [RFC7959]  Bormann, C. and Z. Shelby, Ed., "Block-Wise Transfers in
              the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)", RFC 7959,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7959, August 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7959>.

   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8288]  Nottingham, M., "Web Linking", RFC 8288,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8288, October 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8288>.

   [RFC8392]  Jones, M., Wahlstroem, E., Erdtman, S., and H. Tschofenig,
              "CBOR Web Token (CWT)", RFC 8392, DOI 10.17487/RFC8392,
              May 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8392>.

   [RFC8613]  Selander, G., Mattsson, J., Palombini, F., and L. Seitz,
              "Object Security for Constrained RESTful Environments
              (OSCORE)", RFC 8613, DOI 10.17487/RFC8613, July 2019,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8613>.

   [RFC8949]  Bormann, C. and P. Hoffman, "Concise Binary Object
              Representation (CBOR)", STD 94, RFC 8949,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8949, December 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8949>.

   [RFC9176]  Amsüss, C., Ed., Shelby, Z., Koster, M., Bormann, C., and
              P. van der Stok, "Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE)
              Resource Directory", RFC 9176, DOI 10.17487/RFC9176, April
              2022, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9176>.

   [RFC9528]  Selander, G., Preuß Mattsson, J., and F. Palombini,
              "Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Over COSE (EDHOC)", RFC 9528,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9528, March 2024,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9528>.

9.2.  Informative References

   [RFC9423]  Bormann, C., "Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE)
              Target Attributes Registry", RFC 9423,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9423, April 2024,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9423>.

Acknowledgments

   The authors sincerely thank Christian Amsüss, Emmanuel Baccelli,
   Carsten Bormann, Roman Danyliw, Esko Dijk, Joel Halpern, Wes
   Hardaker, Klaus Hartke, John Preuß Mattsson, David Navarro, Shuping
   Peng, Jim Schaad, Jürgen Schönwälder, John Scudder, Orie Steele,
   Gunter Van de Velde, Mališa Vučinić, and Paul Wouters for their
   feedback and comments.

   The work on this document has been partly supported by the Sweden's
   Innovation Agency VINNOVA and the Celtic-Next project CRITISEC CRITISEC, and
   by the H2020 project SIFIS-Home (Grant agreement 952652).

Authors' Addresses

   Francesca Palombini
   Ericsson AB
   Torshamnsgatan 23
   SE-164 40 Kista
   Sweden
   Email: francesca.palombini@ericsson.com

   Marco Tiloca
   RISE AB
   Isafjordsgatan 22
   SE-16440 Stockholm
   SE-164 40 Kista
   Sweden
   Email: marco.tiloca@ri.se

   Rikard Höglund
   RISE AB
   Isafjordsgatan 22
   SE-16440 Stockholm Kista
   Sweden
   Email: rikard.hoglund@ri.se

   Stefan Hristozov
   Fraunhofer AISEC
   Email: stefan.hristozov@eriptic.com

   Göran Selander
   Ericsson
   Email: goran.selander@ericsson.com