Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-header-03.txt; possibility of a five minute slot at saag?
"Richard L. Barnes" <rbarnes@bbn.com> Thu, 29 July 2010 08:28 UTC
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Subject: Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-header-03.txt; possibility of a five minute slot at saag?
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The thing I'm struggling with here is what value a CGA provides over a bare public key. The use of a CGA as a source address doesn't prove anything except that the entity that generated it had access to a given public key, which is nothing special. If you're going to get any security benefit, you either need 1. Out-of-band knowledge that SEND was applied in the relevant subnet, or 2. Some interaction that proves ownership of the private key In the second case, you might as well just use existing protocols for proving ownership of a key (IPsec, TLS); the first case is just a special case of the second, where the entity applying access control has a special relationship with the layer-2 network (kind of fragile). Either way, what you end up doing is validating that the entity holds a given private key, at which point the source address has nothing to do with the security of communications. tl;dr: CGAs don't have any security benefit without another protocol. What's the use case? --Richard On Jul 29, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> writes: > > Stephen> I agree that the primary motivation for CGAs arose in the > Stephen> SeND context, and that privacy is an independent > Stephen> feature. But, the context in which CGAs were intended to > Stephen> provide an ability to establish a binding to an IPv6 > Stephen> address was local. When one moves beyond this local > Stephen> context, and one advocates having more distant nodes > Stephen> challenge a host, this creates privacy questions. > > I think we've been looking at CGAs that have non-local scope for a > while. Section 7.4 of RFC 3972 seems to anticipate CGAs used with > other > protocols. It's my understanding that shim6 supports both HBAs and > CGAs > for non-local contexts. I also believe the MIP6 context for CGA use > is > non-local. > > _______________________________________________ > saag mailing list > saag@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/saag
- [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-header-0… Sam Hartman
- Re: [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-head… Stephen Kent
- Re: [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-head… Laganier, Julien
- Re: [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-head… Stephen Kent
- Re: [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-head… Margaret Wasserman
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Stephen Kent
- Re: [secdir] Interest in draft-dong-savi-cga-head… Laganier, Julien
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Margaret Wasserman
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Stephen Kent
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Stephen Kent
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Sam Hartman
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Richard L. Barnes
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Robert Moskowitz
- Re: [secdir] [saag] Interest in draft-dong-savi-c… Stephen Kent