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Re: [6lo] [Anima] [6tisch-security] Comments needed for Security Bootstrapping of IEEE 802.15.4 based Internet of Things

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Fri, 06 February 2015 10:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [6lo] [Anima] [6tisch-security] Comments needed for Security Bootstrapping of IEEE 802.15.4 based Internet of Things
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Behcet Sarikaya writes:
> > For this uses the IKEv2 + EAP would be most likely quite good, i.e.
> > the IKEv2 frames would be exchange between the peer joining the
> > network and its next hop router, and inside those IKEv2 frames there
> > would be EAP messages, which are then relayed to the AAA server (trust
> > center TC in draft-he-iot-security-bootstrapping-00) for actual
> > authentication.
> 
> Did you consider 802.1X which does similar things?

Yes, but 802.1X is not enough on its own. It only provides
authentication, not key management. We currently have two 802.1X
versions, i.e. 802.1X/MKA and 802.1X/KEY, but there is going to be
some rewriting happening on those sections. In addition to those we
have IKEv2, HIP, PANA and Dragonfly.
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