Re: Issue 60: Addresses in IKE_SA_INIT/AUTH (was: Comments of draft-ietf-mobike-protocol-04.txt)

Jari Arkko <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:26:51 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tero Kivinen wrote:

>I agree that the revealing of the IP addresses is not very serious
>case, but there are people who consider that unacceptable (that is why
>the NAT-T uses hashes, as people did consider leaking the IP-addresses
>a problem). If we leak them again here, there needs to be at least
>security considerations section explaining the issue, and also explain
>why we require them to be sent in clear when they could also be sent
>as encrypted (i.e. hidden from passive attackers).
>  
>
We probably need the security considerations text
in any case, because we have ADDITIONAL_*_ADDRESS.

--Jari