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Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-roll-admin-local-policy-02

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 14 January 2015 22:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-roll-admin-local-policy-02
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peter van der Stok <stokcons@xs4all.nl> wrote:
    > Incoming MPL4 messages, encrypted at layer 2, MUST be encrypted at
    > layer 2 at 
    > all outgoing interfaces. This is done either by decrypting at the
    > incoming 
    > interface and encrypting at the outgoing interface with the appropriate
    > keys

this works.

    > by sending the MPL4 message unmodified at the
    > outgoing interface.

This does not work in 15.4, it's just not how things work, because parts of
the packet changes, so the nonces change, etc.

<Steve.Hanna@infineon.com> wrote:
    Steve> Thanks for addressing the issue that I raised.

    Steve> Your proposal is not very strong. If the border router has
    Steve> interfaces on two networks that both have layer 2 encryption, any
    Steve> device on either of those networks can cause the boundaries of the
    Steve> admin-local scope to be changed. Am I wrong?

I don't understand the attack.
Can you explain ?
All nodes with access to the raw data can replicate it elsewhere.
I think that you are suggesting that some node can cause the border router to
change it's admin-local scope.

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