[anonsec] I-D Action:draft-ietf-btns-connection-latching-04.txt

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	Title           : IPsec Channels: Connection Latching
	Author(s)       : N. Williams
	Filename        : draft-ietf-btns-connection-latching-04.txt
	Pages           : 20
	Date            : 2007-12-09

This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications
and transport protocols with IPsec so as to create "channels" by
"latching" "connections" (packet flows) to certain IPsec Security
Association (SA) parameters for the lifetime of the connections.
This can be used to protect applications against accidentally
exposing live packet flows to unintended peers, whether as the result
of a reconfiguration of IPsec or as the result of using weak peer
identity to peer address associations.

Weak association of peer ID and peer addresses is at the core of
Better Than Nothing Security (BTNS), thus connection latching can add
a significant measure of protection to BTNS IPsec nodes.  A model of
of connection latching is given.

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