Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis-04

Uma Chunduri <uma.chunduri@ericsson.com> Mon, 06 July 2015 19:55 UTC

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From: Uma Chunduri <uma.chunduri@ericsson.com>
To: Takeshi Takahashi <takeshi_takahashi@nict.go.jp>, "draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis.all@tools.ietf.org" <draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis.all@tools.ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis-04
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Hi Take,

Thanks for your  review and comments. Shall address both your comments in the next update i.e.,
a. Ref. to 5310 in Section 4
b.  Shall recommend usage of RFC 5310 instead of RFC 5304 (HMAC-MD5)

" In view of openly published attack vectors, as noted in Section 1 of  [RFC5310] on HMAC-MD5 cryptographic authentication mechanism, 
   IS-IS deployments SHOULD use HMAC-SHA family [RFC5310]  instead of HMAC-MD5 [RFC5304] for protecting IS-IS PDUs."

Please suggest if the above is sufficient to address #b (or happy to consider better text).  Thx!

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Uma C.

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From: Takeshi Takahashi [mailto:takeshi_takahashi@nict.go.jp] 
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Subject: RE: Secdir review of draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis-04

Let me add one more comment here.
We could probably discourage the use of HMAC-MD5, and encourage the use of HMAC-SHA family instead.

Take

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takeshi Takahashi [mailto:takeshi_takahashi@nict.go.jp]
> Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 1:10 PM
> To: 'draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis.all@tools.ietf.org'
> Cc: 'iesg@ietf.org'; 'secdir@ietf.org'; 'karp-chairs@tools.ietf.org'
> Subject: Secdir review of draft-ietf-karp-isis-analysis-04
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
ongoing
> effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG.
> These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security 
> area directors.
> Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like 
> any
other
> last call comments.
> 
> This document is ready for publication.
> 
> [summary of this document]
> 
> This document analyzes the threats of IS-IS protocol.
> It first summarizes the current state of the IS-IS protocol, with 
> special
focus
> on key usage and key management (in section 2), and then analyzes the
security
> gaps in order to identify security requirements (in section 3).
> 
> In the summary of the current state of the protocol (section 2), it
already
> mentioned the threats of the protocol, i.e. replay attack and spoofing
attack,
> for each of the three message types of IS-IS protocol.
> Section 3 summarizes, organizes, and develops the threat analysis and
provides
> candidate direction to cope with the threats by listing requirements 
> and
by
> listing related I-D works.
> 
> [minor comment]
> 
> As mentioned in the security consideration section, this draft does 
> not
modify
> any of the existing protocols.
> It thus does not produce any new security concerns.
> So, the security consideration section seems adequate.
> The authors could consider citing RFC 5310 in Section 5, since I feel 
> like
that
> this draft does not discuss all the content of the consideration 
> section
of
> the rfc (it does discuss major parts of the section, though).
> 
> Cheers,
> Take
>