Issue173

Issue Title Significance of colliding peer-id/interface address attacks
Document: GIST Protocol Specification v11 Section: 4.4.2
Category: Editorial Priority: Should Fix
Status: Text Proposed

Created on 2007-01-30.21:48:38 by reh, last changed 2007-02-13.16:16:06.

Messages
msg491 Author: reh Date: 2007-02-12.22:33:29
The text in 4.4.2 (first bullet) now simply reads:

                                                       This will lead
      to multiplexing on an association to the wrong node if signalling
      nodes have colliding Peer-Identities and one is reachable at the
      same Interface-Address as another.  This could be done by an on-
      path attacker; on-path attacks are discussed further in
      Section 8.7.

8.7 contains the old discussion of why we don't attempt to prevent off-path
attacks non-cryptographically.
msg477 Author: reh Date: 2007-01-30.21:48:38
The case of colliding interface-address and peer-identity should be described
more objectively than simply being called a failure, and there should be a
reference to the protection/recovery mechanisms.

(Actually, protection/recovery in this case is intrinsically hard since this is
a case of an on-path attack which we don't attempt to handle. This issue, and
the related topic of peer node authentication, are discussed later in the
security considerations section.)
History
Date User Action Args
2007-02-13 16:16:07rehsetstatus: No Discussion -> Text Proposed
2007-02-12 22:33:29rehsetmessages: + msg491
2007-01-30 21:48:39rehcreate