Problem areas for the IP security protocols

  • Authors:
  • Steven M. Bellovin

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Research

  • Venue:
  • SSYM'96 Proceedings of the 6th conference on USENIX Security Symposium, Focusing on Applications of Cryptography - Volume 6
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is in the proces of adopting standards for IP-layer encryption and authentication (IPSEC). We describe a number of attacks against various versions of these protocols, including confidentiality failures and authentication failures. The implications of these attacks are troubling for the utility of this entire effort.