Re: [v6ops] Extension Headers / Impact on Security Devices

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Mon, 18 May 2015 10:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Extension Headers / Impact on Security Devices
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Enno,

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> - it has not happened in the past 17 yrs (since publication of RFC2460) that compelling, Internet-scale use cases of extension headers have been brought up.

this is clearly wrong. FH, AH, ESP are all widely deployed.
any form of tunnelling is essentially either using the IP header as an extension header. including GRE.

> - we're hence quite sceptical as for the "we might see cool use cases in 15-20 yrs" position someone expressed at the mic.
> - from a security perspective they turn out to be a nightmare for (a number of) current security architectures and controls. it is hence understandable (and we actually advise to do so) that they are blocked at the _border_ of networks that have not yet managed to identify a compelling use case.

open communication is a security nightmare.

cheers,
Ole