Re: [Dime] Ben Campbell's No Objection on draft-ietf-dime-e2e-sec-req-04: (with COMMENT)

[Jouni Korhonen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Stephen,

6/1/2016, 11:32 AM, Stephen Farrell kirjoitti:
>
> Thanks all for the discussion. I've one thing to add... as you
> may detect, it's a thing about which I'm not neutral:-)
>
> On 01/06/16 19:14, Jouni Korhonen wrote:
>>
>>> - Requirement 7: This (along with some text in the introduction) implies
>>> that non-repudiation is a requirement. If so, that should be listed and
>>> elaborated as a requirement.
>>
>> I believe tnon-repudiation is already covered by the requirement #2,
>> which says "..integrity, and data-origin authentication."
>
> I'll put a DISCUSS on this if anyone adds non-repudiation as
> a requirement! :-)

Bummer ;-)

> Non-repudiation is not a network service, even though it has been
> described as one for decades. (Blame the security addendum to the
> OSI reference model - afaik, that's where it started;-)
>
> If one wants to provide what was claimed to be provided by
> non-repudiation then one needs signed timestamps for pretty much
> everything (and with counter signing for algorithm changes) and
> distributed logs with signed events (and log integrity) for things
> that happen at all nodes, and much else. None of that is useful for
> Diameter and it therefore ought not be mentioned. Even were it
> claimed to be useful, one would need to define a whole bunch of
> new AVPs to try (but fail) to provide that fictional service.
>
> Jouni is IMO correct that data origin authentication and data
> integrity are the network security services that are relevant
> and that can be offered here.

Phew..

>
> All that said, this is likely just a terminology thing, since
> some people do still use the NR term when they mean integrity
> and DAO with signatures, but it is *really* not a good idea to
> add the NR term to the mix as it has distracted and misdirected
> folks for literally decades and going back to that would be a
> bad plan.

Okay, I'll clean non-repudiation away, since origin authentication and 
integrity protection is really meant here.

- Jouni


>
> Cheers,
> S.
>