Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices
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Subject: Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices
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I think people need to go and read draft-ietf-netconf-zerotouch and draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra. Then explain how we could ever bootstrap a trustworthy network without some sort of unique bitstring per device (in practice, an 802.1AR-2009 X.509 initial device identifier installed by the manfacturer). That doesn't mean it needs to be visible in clear after bootstrap. Regards Brian On 06/10/2016 12:54, Peter Saint-Andre - Filament wrote: > Over on the CORE WG list, we've had a little discussion about the > desirability (or not) of unique identifiers for devices in the Internet > of Things. The message below provides some context. > > I'd be curious to learn more about the attack surface lurking behind > Stephen Farrell's comment that having long-term stable identifiers for > IoT devices is a privacy-unfriendly practice because people will abuse > such identifiers. > > To be clear, the scenarios I have in mind are not specific to CoAP and > don't always involve IP-based networking (the technology I'm working on > these days enables mesh networking over long-range radio), but they do > involve discovery and eventual communication that is both end-to-end > encrypted and as close to metadata-hiding as possible. > > Thanks! > > Peter > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: [core] Implications of IP address / port changes for CoAP & Co > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 00:11:26 +0100 > From: Stephen Farrell > To: core@ietf.org <core@ietf.org> > > > Hi Peter, > > On 06/10/16 00:03, Peter Saint-Andre - Filament wrote: >> On 10/5/16 4:28 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >>> On 05/10/16 23:22, Dave Thaler wrote: >>>> It is important that every device have a unique UUID that is >>>> endpoint-address-agnostic and protocol-agnostic. >>> >>> Considering the privacy implications I'm not at all sure I'd >>> accept that argument. In fact I'd argue we ought encourage >>> that devices not have globally unique long-term identifiers at >>> all unless there is a real need for those, and unless we >>> understand how to control their (ab)use. >> >> By "identifier" do we necessarily mean "network identifier"? It seems to >> me that it is useful to have a unique long-term identifier for every >> device, based on its public key. Whether you can obtain a network >> connection to that device based on such information is another story. > > It is undoubtedly useful to have long term stable identifiers of > various kinds. I'd include key IDs and public keys as such. > > Turns out that it's also fairly universally privacy unfriendly > as people will abuse such identifiers for good and bad reasons. > > So I think we need to get much better at analysing when such > things are really needed and in what scope. My bet is that a lot > of the time a locally or probabilistically unique more transient > identifier would be just fine. > > But yeah, I can't prove that. OTOH there is a hint in the term > "IMSI catcher" isn't there? > > Cheers, > S. > >> >> Peter >> > > _______________________________________________ > perpass mailing list > perpass@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass > . >
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Dave Thaler
- [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT d… Peter Saint-Andre - Filament
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… George Michaelson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Dave Thaler
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… George Michaelson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… George Michaelson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Christian Huitema
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… John Levine
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Robin Wilton
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Hugo Maxwell Connery
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Christian Huitema
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Joseph Lorenzo Hall
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Christian Huitema
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Michael Richardson
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Fernando Gont
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Fernando Gont
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Fernando Gont
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Fernando Gont
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Eitan Adler
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Paul Kyzivat
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Christian Huitema
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Ross Schulman
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Robin Wilton
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Paul Kyzivat
- Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for I… Brian E Carpenter