Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:29 -0800, Jarrett Lu wrote: >> I could be wrong here. I thought the opaque blob is passed as pay load >> in IKE exchange, not as IP option in the header. > > There are multiple places where labels could appear on a p

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:29 -0800, Jarrett Lu wrote: > I could be wrong here. I thought the opaque blob is passed as pay load > in IKE exchange, not as IP option in the header. There are multiple places where labels could appear on a packet by packet basis: a) explicitly in each packet outside e

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-10 Thread Casey Schaufler
David P. Quigley wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:48 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > >> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 02:31:16 pm Jarrett Lu wrote: >> >>> Paul Moore wrote: >>> I agree with Casey and David. I think the only way we stand any chance of success is to develop a on

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-10 Thread David P. Quigley
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:31 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 10:21:30 am David P. Quigley wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:57 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > The term "DOI" has been used in traditional MLS system for about two > > > > decades. In the

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Jarrett Lu
Paul Moore wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 02:31:16 pm Jarrett Lu wrote: Paul Moore wrote: I agree with Casey and David. I think the only way we stand any chance of success is to develop a on-the-wire format that can be easily internalized by a variety of implementations. For exa

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread David P. Quigley
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:48 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 02:31:16 pm Jarrett Lu wrote: > > Paul Moore wrote: > > > I agree with Casey and David. I think the only way we stand any chance > > > of success is to develop a on-the-wire format that can be easily > > > interna

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 02:31:16 pm Jarrett Lu wrote: > Paul Moore wrote: > > I agree with Casey and David. I think the only way we stand any chance > > of success is to develop a on-the-wire format that can be easily > > internalized by a variety of implementations. For example, I know CIP

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
It is very clear that there is no common understanding among the participants on this thread. I propose that we cut this off for now until we can figure out what to do with the proposed work item. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IPsec mai

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Jarrett Lu
Paul Moore wrote: I agree with Casey and David. I think the only way we stand any chance of success is to develop a on-the-wire format that can be easily internalized by a variety of implementations. For example, I know CIPSO is far from the darling child of labeled networking, but due in l

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 02:06:04 pm David P. Quigley wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:31 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 10:21:30 am David P. Quigley wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:57 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > The term "DOI"

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Jarrett Lu
Casey Schaufler wrote: Jarrett Lu wrote: Casey Schaufler wrote: Jarrett Lu wrote: Without rehashing the statements made in above discussion threads, it's probably helpful to have a realistic interoperability expectation for labeled systems. Defining label formats and security

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 10:21:30 am David P. Quigley wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:57 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > [snip] > > > > The term "DOI" has been used in traditional MLS system for about two > > > decades. In the MLS world, when systems use same DOI, it means they > > > agree

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Casey Schaufler
Jarrett Lu wrote: > Casey Schaufler wrote: >> Jarrett Lu wrote: >> >>> Without rehashing the statements made in above discussion threads, >>> it's probably helpful to have a realistic interoperability expectation >>> for labeled systems. Defining label formats and security mechanisms in >>> vario

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread David P. Quigley
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:57 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: [snip] > > > > > The term "DOI" has been used in traditional MLS system for about two > > decades. In the MLS world, when systems use same DOI, it means they > > agree to the same label definition and MAC policy, and the systems are > > mos

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-09 Thread Casey Schaufler
Jarrett Lu wrote: >> Joy Latten wrote: >> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:02 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:10:15AM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: >>> > The proposed work item is, at first glance anyways, too SELinux- > specific. > > Note that SMACK encode

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Jarrett Lu
Casey Schaufler wrote: Jarrett Lu wrote: Without rehashing the statements made in above discussion threads, it's probably helpful to have a realistic interoperability expectation for labeled systems. Defining label formats and security mechanisms in various networking protocols is important.

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Jarrett Lu
Joy Latten wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:02 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:10:15AM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: The proposed work item is, at first glance anyways, too SELinux- specific. Note that SMACK encodes its labels as CIPSO labels, so a scheme that uses CI

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 05:16:26 pm Stephen Kent wrote: >> Paul, >> >> From your comments it seems as though an IP option would be >> preferable, as it is not IP-sec-specific, and it an be protected if >> needed, in the IPSec context, e.g., via

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 11:59:51 pm Steven Bellovin wrote: > On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Monday 07 December 2009 05:16:26 pm Stephen Kent wrote: > >> Paul, > >> > >> From your comments it seems as though an IP option would be > >> preferable, as it is not IP-sec-specific

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Casey Schaufler
Paul Moore wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 11:10:15 am Joy Latten wrote: > >> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:46 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: >>> The bigger point being missed by this thread, I think, is that it

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-08 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:59:13PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > You could have PAD entries that set labels. We do that today in > > OpenSolaris. > > I apologize, but I'm not familiar with OpenSolaris's IPsec - do you use the > pad to assign labels when none are present (the fallback case) or do

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 07:41:21 pm Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:59:13PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Monday 07 December 2009 06:20:31 pm Dan McDonald wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > > Why spend the time and effort to deve

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Joy Latten
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 18:41 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:59:13PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Monday 07 December 2009 06:20:31 pm Dan McDonald wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > > Why spend the time and effort to develop

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Sean Turner
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:40:05PM -0500, Sean Turner wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: ...snip... - A separate I-D for adding labeling information to certificates. Are you suggesting that you'd label a certificate? I suspect what you're talking about is including what la

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:59:13PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 06:20:31 pm Dan McDonald wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > Why spend the time and effort to develop two specifications (not to > > > mention the actual implementations

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Joy Latten
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:37 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > On Monday 07 December 2009 11:10:15 am Joy Latten wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:46 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: > > > > The bigger point being missed by this thread, I

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 06:20:31 pm Dan McDonald wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > > But this is not a reason to oppose labelled IPsec. It's a reason to > > > want an extended IP packet labelling standard. > > > > Why spend the time and effort to develop t

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Joy Latten
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 15:02 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:10:15AM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: > > > The proposed work item is, at first glance anyways, too SELinux- > > > specific. > > > > > > Note that SMACK encodes its labels as CIPSO labels, so a scheme that > > > use

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Dan McDonald
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > But this is not a reason to oppose labelled IPsec. It's a reason to > > want an extended IP packet labelling standard. > > Why spend the time and effort to develop two specifications (not to mention > the actual implementations) whe

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 04:51:10 pm Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > I've mentioned all of this before, but my main fundamental concern with > > the proposed labeled IPsec spec is that not everyone who wants labeled > > networking wants I

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:40:05PM -0500, Sean Turner wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > ...snip... > > - A separate I-D for adding labeling information to certificates. > > Are you suggesting that you'd label a certificate? I suspect what > you're talking about is including what labels a user/d

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 05:16:26 pm Stephen Kent wrote: > Paul, > > From your comments it seems as though an IP option would be > preferable, as it is not IP-sec-specific, and it an be protected if > needed, in the IPSec context, e.g., via tunneling. Exactly. Since the option would be immuta

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > At the SELinux Developer's Summit a few months ago there was a bit of a > general discussion about DOIs and label representation between myself (Linux > labeled networking), Dave Quigley (labeled NFS, added to CC) and Casey > Schaufle

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Stephen Kent
Paul, From your comments it seems as though an IP option would be preferable, as it is not IP-sec-specific, and it an be protected if needed, in the IPSec context, e.g., via tunneling. Steve ___ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Sean Turner
Nicolas Williams wrote: ...snip... - A separate I-D for adding labeling information to certificates. Are you suggesting that you'd label a certificate? I suspect what you're talking about is including what labels a user/device supports and the clearance attribute in the RFC 3281 update (ht

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday 07 December 2009 11:10:15 am Joy Latten wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:46 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: > > > The bigger point being missed by this thread, I think, is that it > > > seems that any work in multi-level se

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:10:15AM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: > > The proposed work item is, at first glance anyways, too SELinux- > > specific. > > > > Note that SMACK encodes its labels as CIPSO labels, so a scheme that > > uses CIPSO can possibly be used in SMACK and non-SMACK environments, and >

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Joy Latten
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 13:39 -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:09:50PM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: > > > > > I believe they are becoming more mainstream. For example, SELinux and > > Simplified Mandatory Access Control (SMACK) in Linux Operating System > > and Mandatory Integri

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-07 Thread Joy Latten
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 12:46 -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: > > The bigger point being missed by this thread, I think, is that it > > seems that any work in multi-level security needs to deal with > > successful interoperability. If i

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-04 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:46:02PM +0200, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > Please remember that it is up to the WG to define the work item. The > I-D is just a possible starting point, so if there's strong interest > in this area, you may wish to reach consensus on a charter item - and > to convince the rest

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-04 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Yaron > -Original Message- > From: ipsec-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipsec-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Nicolas Williams > Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 20:46 > To: Dan McDonald > Cc: ipsec@ietf.org; Joy Latten > Subject: Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-04 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote: > The bigger point being missed by this thread, I think, is that it > seems that any work in multi-level security needs to deal with > successful interoperability. If it doesn't, there's little point in > documenting a single-platform s

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-04 Thread Dan McDonald
On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 12:09:50PM -0600, Joy Latten wrote: > I believe they are becoming more mainstream. For example, SELinux and > Simplified Mandatory Access Control (SMACK) in Linux Operating System > and Mandatory Integrity Control in Windows Vista. You forgot OpenSolaris Trusted Extensio

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-04 Thread Joy Latten
On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 19:59 -0500, Stephen Kent wrote: > I think that there has been insufficient discussion of whether those > who wish to make use of IPsec to enforce mandatory access controls > require the facilities described by the folks who have proposed this. > At the WG meeting 2 weeks a

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-03 Thread Michael Richardson
Yaron Sheffer wrote: This work item proposes to extend IKEv2 (and IKEv1) so as to allow IPsec to be used in environments that require Mandatory Access Control. It is envisioned that this will be used by modern high-security operating systems, that go beyond the currently supported Multilevel S

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-12-02 Thread Scott C Moonen
If this proposal is accepted, I commit to review it. Scott Moonen (smoo...@us.ibm.com) z/OS Communications Server TCP/IP Development http://www.linkedin.com/in/smoonen From: Yaron Sheffer To: "ipsec@ietf.org" Date: 11/29/2009 12:26 PM Subject: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec Thi

Re: [IPsec] Proposed work item: Labelled IPsec

2009-11-29 Thread Stephen Kent
I think that there has been insufficient discussion of whether those who wish to make use of IPsec to enforce mandatory access controls require the facilities described by the folks who have proposed this. At the WG meeting 2 weeks ago I made two observations: - possible use of CIPSO for c