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[IPsec] Call for adoption: The NULL Authentication Method in IKEv2 Protocol

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Thu, 11 September 2014 11:06 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:06:10 +0300
From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
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Subject: [IPsec] Call for adoption: The NULL Authentication Method in IKEv2 Protocol
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Yaron Sheffer writes:
> This is a call for adopting draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-null-auth as a 
> WG document. Please respond to this mail with a Yes or No and a short 
> rationale, at latest by Friday Sep. 12.

I have not really had time to concentrate on this topic yet, but I
think this kind of extension would be useful, and I especially think
one way authentication would be useful in the IoT contexts. I am not
that convinced that no authentication at all is that useful, but I
might be wrong (there are complicated policy issues with that, which
might require more work).

I support taking this document as WG document (i.e. as first version,
that can then be worked on later). 
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kivinen@iki.fi

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