question about zmap, ssh and fingerprinting
Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.secsh |
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Hiya, The netconf protocol can use either TLS or SSH. They're working on a "call-home" draft [1] and as part of that I suggested that the WG maybe consider adding a security consideration something like that below. They're thinking about that but asked if the same considerations would apply to SSH. I guess in principle it ought, but I don't think I've seen specific uses of zmap that did that, so I figured I'd ask. (Note: we just need to know if s/TLS/TLS or SSH/ would be good or bad below, but of course any other comments on [1] would be interesting too.) Thanks in advance, S. [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-call-home-11 Suggested text: "Internet facing hosts running TLS will be fingerprinted via public IPv4 scanning tools such as zmap. [zmap] If those hosts are not updated and have known vulnerabilities those will be exploited. This is noted here as, a) TLS provides many ways in which a device can be fingerprinted and b) zmap is still relatively new. Implementers and those deploying need to ensure that they provide mechanisms for software update so that vulnerabilities are fixed in a timely fashion." [zmap] Durumeric, Zakir, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman. "ZMap: Fast Internet-wide Scanning and Its Security Applications." Usenix Security. 2013.