Attacking the IPsec Standards in Encryption-only Configurations

  • Authors:
  • Jean Paul Degabriele;Kenneth G. Paterson

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, UK;University of London, UK

  • Venue:
  • SP '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We describe new attacks which break any RFCcompliant implementation of IPsec making use of encryption-only ESP in tunnel mode. The new attacks are both efficient and realistic: they are ciphertext-only and need only the capability to eavesdrop on ESP-encrypted traffic and to inject traffic into the network. We report on our experiences in applying the attacks to a variety of implementations of IPsec.