[btns] Protocol Action: 'IPsec Channels: Connection Latching' to Proposed Standard
The IESG
iesg-secretary at ietf.org
Mon Aug 17 11:18:33 PDT 2009
The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'IPsec Channels: Connection Latching '
<draft-ietf-btns-connection-latching-11.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Better-Than-Nothing Security Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen.
A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-btns-connection-latching-11.txt
Technical Summary
This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications
and transport protocols with IPsec so as to create "channels" by
latching "connections" (packet flows) to certain IPsec Security
Association (SA) parameters for the lifetime of the connections.
Connection latching is layered on top of IPsec and does not modify
the underlying IPsec architecture.
Connection latching can be used to protect applications against
accidentally exposing live packet flows to unintended peers, whether
as the result of a reconfiguration of IPsec or as the result of using
weak peer identity to peer address associations. Weak association of
peer ID and peer addresses is at the core of Better Than Nothing
Security (BTNS), thus connection latching can add a significant
measure of protection to BTNS IPsec nodes.
Finally, the availability of IPsec channels will make it possible to
use channel binding to IPsec channels.
Working Group Summary
This document is a product of the Better Than Nothing Security (BTNS)
working group.
Document Quality
A version of Connection Latching is implemented in OpenSolaris. The
document has been reviewed by Daniel McDonald who worked on the
Connection Latching implementation in OpenSolaris.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Julien Laganier (BTNS
WG co-chair). The Responsible Area Director is Tim Polk (Security
Area Director).
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