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Securing PIM-SM Link-Local Messages

Securing PIM-SM Link-Local Messages. J.W. Atwood Salekul Islam Concordia University draft-atwood-pim-sm-linklocal-01. Problem Statement. PIM-SM draft says Recommend AH Assume manual keying, but allow automatic If IPsec, MUST authenticate all Anti-replay SHOULD be enabled AH says

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Securing PIM-SM Link-Local Messages

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  1. Securing PIM-SM Link-Local Messages J.W. Atwood Salekul Islam Concordia University draft-atwood-pim-sm-linklocal-01

  2. Problem Statement • PIM-SM draft says • Recommend AH • Assume manual keying, but allow automatic • If IPsec, MUST authenticate all • Anti-replay SHOULD be enabled • AH says • SHOULD NOT offer anti-replay when manually keyed

  3. cont • IPsec says • Security Policy Database (SPD) cannot represent a creation policy for a multicast SA • Therefore, only manually-configured SAD entries are possible • Apparent conclusion • We should not activate anti-replay for PIM Link-local messages • Actual conclusion • We can, it’s just harder…

  4. Per-interface or per-sender? • PIM-SM says • Per-interface may be useful • IPsec says • No (longer) need to support per-interface • AH says • Use SPI + destination + source for SSM • Use SPI + destination for ASM

  5. Who talks to whom? • Link-local messages go from one router to all its peer routers • Since all routers use ALL_PIM_ROUTERS, it looks like an ASM group • In fact, this is a collection of SSM groups • Therefore • All the counsel against anti-replay for multi-sender multicast groups does not apply • Link-local SA SHOULD be established as an SSM group

  6. Choices • Declare that ALL_PIM_ROUTERS operates as an SSM group when IPsec is enabled • This may be hard, because ALL_PIM_ROUTERS is used for BSR communication • Define LINK_LOCAL_PIM_ROUTERS or SECURE_PIM_ROUTERS to be in the SSM address range • But, we will need to secure BSR communication as well

  7. Manual Key Configuration • Number of peers will be small • AH says • Anti-replay SHOULD NOT be provided if SAs are manually keyed • Choices • Override AH (RFC 4302) • Define a negotiation protocol to ensure key generation and SA refresh on counter overflow

  8. Counter Overflow • If Extended Sequence Number is specified, 264control packets can be sent • This may justify overriding the AH prohibition. • Otherwise, we are prepared to work on defining the necessary negotiation protocol

  9. Validation • This proposal was formally validated, as part of the Master’s Thesis of Salekul Islam, using PROMELA and the SPIN tool. • Salekul Islam and J. William Atwood, "Security Issues in PIM-SM Link-local Messages", Proceedings of IEEE LCN 2004, Tampa, FL, 2004 November 16--18, pp. 402--403.

  10. Contact Information • PPT/PDF of these slides are at www.cse.concordia.ca/~bill/internet-drafts/IETF66-LinkLocal-01.ppt or IETF66-LinkLocal-01.pdf • Email addresses • bill@cse.concordia.ca • salek_is@cse.concordia.ca

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