[secdir] R: secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech

"Salvatore D'Antonio" <salvatore.dantonio@uniparthenope.it> Sat, 23 February 2013 14:26 UTC

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Dear all,

A new version of the Internet Draft has been submitted that addresses
comments from Benoit and Dan Harkins.

Kind regards,


Salvatore

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Nevil Brownlee [mailto:n.brownlee@auckland.ac.nz] 
Inviato: giovedì 21 febbraio 2013 00:32
A: Salvatore D'Antonio
Cc: 'Benoit Claise'; draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech@tools.ietf.org;
ipfix-chairs@tools.ietf.org
Oggetto: Re: secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech


Hi Salvatore:

Draft submission deadline for IETF 86 is next Monday, 25 February.
Any chance of getting the revised draft done before that, please?

Cheers, Nevil



On 12/02/13 8:41 PM, Salvatore D'Antonio wrote:
> Dear Nevil,
>
> Thanks for your e-mail. Regrettably I could not work to the Draft in the
> last two months because I was fully involved in the preparation of the
final
> reports of the research projects of my University.
> I just restarted to work to the document in order to implement the changes
> requested by Benoit and I plan to submit a new version early next week.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Salvatore
>
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Nevil Brownlee [mailto:n.brownlee@auckland.ac.nz]
> Inviato: martedì 12 febbraio 2013 03:38
> A: Salvatore D'Antonio
> Cc: 'Benoit Claise'; draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech@tools.ietf.org;
> ipfix-chairs@tools.ietf.org
> Oggetto: Re: R: R: secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech
>
>
> Hi Salvatore:
>
> I'm getting set for IETF 86 in Orlando; I see that the flow-selection
> draft has been sitting waiting for a revised draft for 130 days!
>
> Please can you get that published real soon now, it would be really
> good to see this draft finally published!
>
> Cheers, Nevil
>
>
> On 20/11/12 5:32 AM, Salvatore D'Antonio wrote:
>> Dear Benoit,
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>> Ok, I will do.
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>> Thanks.
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>> Best regards,
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>> Salvatore
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>> Da: Benoit Claise [mailto:bclaise@cisco.com]
>> Inviato: lunedì 19 novembre 2012 17:16
>> A: Salvatore D'Antonio
>> Cc: draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech.all@tools.ietf.org
>> Oggetto: Re: R: secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech
>>
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>> Salvatore,
>>
>> Please answer Dan's comment via email before posting the draft, unless
>> you're sure that your resolution will resolve his issue.
>>
>> Regards, Benoit
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
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>> I missed Dan's e-mail. I apologise for that.
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>> I will address Dan's comments  in the new version of the Draft.
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>> Best regards,
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>> Salvatore
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>> Da: Benoit Claise [mailto:bclaise@cisco.com]
>> Inviato: lunedì 12 novembre 2012 17:51
>> A: draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech.all@tools.ietf.org
>> Cc: ipfix@ietf.org
>> Oggetto: Fwd: secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear authors,
>>
>> Reading my old emails, I'm not sure that you took into account Dan's
>> feedback.
>> At the very minimum, you should give a reply
>>
>> Regards, Benoit
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>>
>>
>> Subject:
>>
>> secdir review of draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech
>>
>>
>> Date:
>>
>> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>
>> From:
>>
>> Dan Harkins  <mailto:dharkins@lounge.org> <dharkins@lounge.org>
>>
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>> To:
>>
>> iesg@ietf.org, secdir@ietf.org,
>> draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech.all@tools.ietf.org
>>
>>
>>
>>     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 draft describes techniques to select flows which are sets of
>> packets with some common characteristics. The authors have accurately
>> identified what constitutes an attack-- an adversary having the ability
>> to influence flow selection-- and the Security Considerations give
>> a couple examples of this. They seem fine.
>>
>>     There is reference to a paper "[GoRe07]" which does not appear in the
>> References and seems to give advice that I think is wrong: use a strong
>> cryptographically strong random number generator to thwart an attack in
>> which parameters of time-based sampling are discovered to predict the
>> selection decision. This attack can be thwarted by using a value that
>> the adversary cannot predict (sort of like an IV for CBC mode) instead
>> of a cryptographically strong random number. That leaves the random
>> number pool to applications that really need it (like a key exchange
>> that does a Diffie-Hellman). I suggest removing the reference to the
>> un-referenced paper and mention a weaker requirement to thwart that
>> attack.
>>
>>     regards,
>>
>>     Dan.
>>
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>>
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>
>


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