Re: issue 45 - clarifications to security considerations
Jari Arkko <[email protected]> Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:34:14 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.mobike |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>Hmm.. here's my take (add this to the end of the section): > > The duration of the attack can also be limited if the victim > reports the unwanted traffic to the originating IPsec tunnel > endpoint using ICMP error messages or INVALID_SPI > notifications. As described in [IKEv2] Section 2.21, this SHOULD > trigger a liveness test, which also doubles as a return > routability check if the COOKIE2 notification is included. > >And while we're at it, we could also make the 3rd paragraph >(the one referring to [Aura02] and transport layer acks) >more accurate: > > If the attack is launched by an outsider, the traffic flow would > normally stop soon due to the lack of responses (such as > transport layer acknowledgements). However, if the original > recipient of the flow is malicious, it could maintain the traffic > flow for an extended period of time, since it often would be able > to send the required acknowledgements (see [Aura02] for more > discussion). > >Does this look ok? > > Yes. Thanks. --Jari