Re: [dna] next steps on draft-ietf-dna-simple

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net> Thu, 10 December 2009 17:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dna] next steps on draft-ietf-dna-simple
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Thanks. This is better. Suresh, more text for you to include...

Jari

Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:
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>> In particular, it MUST NOT decide it has rejoined a network known to be physically secure, and proceed to abandon cryptographic protection.
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> I really don't like this language, because it implies that there is such a thing as a network that's physically secure, and because it suggests that there are networks on which secure protocols need not be run.   Recent history would suggest otherwise (see yesterday's articles about penetration of ATM networks, for instance).
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> I would rather see something like this:
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> In particular, it MUST NOT decide that it has moved from an untrusted to a trusted network, and MUST NOT make any security decisions that depend on the determination that such a transition has occurred.
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