Yaron Sheffer wrote:

> Hi Pasi,
> 
> Tero's mail gives a clearer explanation of the situation than your
> proposed text. Gluing the two together, how about replacing your
> last paragraph with:
> 
> If the failure is related to creating the IKE SA (for example,
> AUTHENTICATION_FAILED), the IKE_SA is not created. Note that
> although the IKE_AUTH messages are encrypted and integrity
> protected, if the peer receiving this notification has not
> authenticated the other end yet (or if the peer fails to
> authenticate the other end for some reason), the information needs
> to be treated with caution. More precisely, (assuming that the MAC
> verifies correctly) the sender of the error indication is known to
> be the responder of the IKE_SA_INIT exchange, but the sender's
> identity cannot be assured.

Looks good to me!

Best regards,
Pasi

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pasi.ero...@nokia.com
> > Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 15:09
> > To: kivi...@iki.fi; ipsec@ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: [IPsec] Issue #9: Notification when creation of CHILD_SA
> > fails
> >
> > Tero,
> >
> > What do you think of the proposed text here?
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg04096.html
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Pasi
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