Re: [IPsec] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis-06

2022-06-01 Thread Valery Smyslov
Hi Reese, thank you for your review! Please find my comments below. > -Original Message- > From: Reese Enghardt via Datatracker [mailto:nore...@ietf.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2022 9:21 PM > To: gen-...@ietf.org > Cc: draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis@ietf.org; ipsec@ietf.org; > last-

Re: [IPsec] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis-06

2022-06-01 Thread Tero Kivinen
Valery Smyslov writes: > Thinking a bit more about the problem: > - IPsec stream consists mostly of random data (as result of > encryption) with uniform distribution > - if an attacker manages to overwrite a single Length field, then > the beginning of the next packet (including the next Length fi

Re: [IPsec] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis-06

2022-06-01 Thread Valery Smyslov
Hi Tero, > > Thinking a bit more about the problem: > > - IPsec stream consists mostly of random data (as result of > > encryption) with uniform distribution > > - if an attacker manages to overwrite a single Length field, then > > the beginning of the next packet (including the next Length field)

Re: [IPsec] [Last-Call] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis-06

2022-06-01 Thread to...@strayalpha.com
Hi, all, Overall, it seems sufficient to: - highlight how much more vulnerable this tunnel makes IPsec to DOS attacks i.e., that single packets can cause the entire connection to need to be reset - indicate that there IS a way to avoid that hit by re-syncing the sync requires a

Re: [IPsec] [secdir] [Last-Call] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis-06

2022-06-01 Thread Valery Smyslov
Hi Joe, From: secdir [mailto:secdir-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of to...@strayalpha.com Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2022 5:43 PM To: Valery Smyslov Cc: draft-ietf-ipsecme-rfc8229bis@ietf.org; sec...@ietf.org; ipsec@ietf.org; last-c...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [secdir] [Last-Call] [IPsec] Secdir