Re: [conex] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications-09: (with COMMENT)
Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 09 October 2015 11:07 UTC
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Subject: Re: [conex] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications-09: (with COMMENT)
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On 09/10/15 10:43, Mirja Kühlewind wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > quick reply to you comment below. The two points below are discussed in > draft-ietf-conex-destopt as ConEx is signaled in the IP layer and the > attacks would (from my point of view) only interfere with the signaling > (and not any additional algorithms that are used in TCP to decide when > to set a marking). > > draft-ietf-conex-destopt even has an own section on "Mitigating flooding > attacks by using preferential drop". I guess that's what you've been > looking for, right? > > Further, draft-ietf-conex-destopt says in the security section that > IPsec AH can be used to detect changes to ConEx information. Actually it > does not say what to do if such changes are detected. I'll check with my > co-authors if we can add some more information here. > > Regarding draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications, I've added two sentences > at the beginning of the security section to say that these issues are > discussed in draft-ietf-conex-destopt. Is that okay for you? Seems good, thanks, S. > > Mirja > > > > On 01.10.2015 13:56, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> Stephen Farrell has entered the following ballot position for >> draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications-09: No Objection >> >> When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all >> email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this >> introductory paragraph, however.) >> >> >> Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html >> for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. >> >> >> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-conex-tcp-modifications/ >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> COMMENT: >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> Seems like a fine thing to experiment with. I hope the results >> are interesting. >> >> The security considerations really ought take into account or at >> least mention potential misbehaviour by middleboxes and also how >> conex might be affected by DoS attacks. >> >
- [conex] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-i… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [conex] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on dra… Mirja Kühlewind
- Re: [conex] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on dra… Stephen Farrell