I-D Action:draft-noisternig-ipdvb-sec-ext-00.txt
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Security Extension for Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation Protocol Author(s) : M. Noisternig, et al. Filename : draft-noisternig-ipdvb-sec-ext-00.txt Pages : 23 Date : 2009-06-29 The Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) protocol provides an efficient mechanism for transporting IP and other network layer protocol data over MPEG-2 networks. Such networks, widely used especially for providing digital TV services, often use broadcast wireless transmission media, and are hence vulnerable to various types of security attacks. This document describes a new mandatory ULE extension to protect ULE traffic using security features such as data confidentiality, data integrity, data origin authentication, and prevention against replay attacks. Additionally, destination addresses may be hidden from illegitimate receiver devices using the identity protection feature. The format of the security extension header as well as the processing at receivers and transmitters are described in detail. The extension aims to be lightweight and flexible such that it may be implemented in low-cost, resource-scarce transceivers, and different levels of security may be selected. The security extension may be easily adapted to the Generic Stream Encapsulation (GSE) protocol, which uses a similar extension header mechanism. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-noisternig-ipdvb-sec-ext-00.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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