One document matched: draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-hello-crypto-auth-06.xml


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<rfc category="std" docName="draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-hello-crypto-auth-06.txt"
     ipr="trust200902">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="LDP Hello Cryptographic Authentication">LDP Hello
    Cryptographic Authentication</title>

    <author fullname="Lianshu Zheng" initials="L." surname="Zheng">
      <organization>Huawei Technologies</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street/>

          <city/>

          <region/>

          <code/>

          <country>China</country>
        </postal>

        <email>vero.zheng@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Mach(Guoyi) Chen" initials="M." surname="Chen">
      <organization>Huawei Technologies</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street/>

          <city/>

          <region/>

          <code/>

          <country>China</country>
        </postal>

        <email>mach.chen@huawei.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Manav Bhatia" initials="M." surname="Bhatia">
      <organization>Alcatel-Lucent</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street/>

          <city/>

          <region/>

          <code/>

          <country>India</country>
        </postal>

        <email>manavbhatia@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date day="21" month="May" year="2014"/>

    <abstract>
      <t>This document introduces a new optional Cryptographic Authentication
      TLV that LDP can use to secure its Hello messages. It secures the Hello
      messages against spoofing attacks and some well known attacks against
      the IP header. This document describes a mechanism to secure the LDP
      Hello messages using National Institute of Standards and Technology
      (NIST) Secure Hash Standard family of algorithms.</t>
    </abstract>

    <note title="Requirements Language">
      <t>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
      "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
      document are to be interpreted as described in <xref
      target="RFC2119">RFC 2119</xref>.</t>
    </note>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>The Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) <xref target="RFC5036"/> sets
      up LDP sessions that run between LDP peers. The peers could either be
      directly connected at the link level or could be multiple hops away. An
      LDP Label Switching Router (LSR) could either be configured with the
      identity of its peers or could discover them using LDP Hello messages.
      These messages are sent encapsulated in UDP addressed to "all routers on
      this subnet" or to a specific IP address. Periodic Hello messages are
      also used to maintain the relationship between LDP peers necessary to
      keep the LDP session active.</t>

      <t>Since the Hello messages are sent using UDP and not TCP, these
      messages cannot use the security mechanisms defined for TCP <xref
      target="RFC5926"> </xref>. While some configuration guidance is given in
      <xref target="RFC5036"/> to help protect against false discovery
      messages, it does not provide an explicit security mechanism to protect
      the Hello messages.</t>

      <t>Spoofing a Hello packet for an existing adjacency can cause the valid
      adjacency to time out and in turn can result in termination of the
      associated session. This can occur when the spoofed Hello specifies a
      smaller Hold Time, causing the receiver to expect Hellos within this
      smaller interval, while the true neighbor continues sending Hellos at
      the previously agreed lower frequency. Spoofing a Hello packet can also
      cause the LDP session to be terminated directly, which can occur when
      the spoofed Hello specifies a different Transport Address, other than
      the previously agreed one between neighbors. Spoofed Hello messages have
      been observed and reported as a real problem in production networks
      <xref target="RFC6952"/>. </t>

      <t>For Link Hello, <xref target="RFC5036"/> states that the threat of
      spoofed Hellos can be reduced by accepting Hellos only on interfaces to
      which LSRs that can be trusted are directly connected, and ignoring
      Hellos not addressed to the "all routers on this subnet" multicast
      group. The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) provides a simple
      and reasonably robust defense mechanism for Link Hello <xref
      target="RFC6720"/>, but it does not secure against packet spoofing
      attack or replay attack<xref target="RFC5082"/>.</t>

      <t>Spoofing attacks via Targeted Hellos are a potentially more serious
      threat. <xref target="RFC5036"/> states that an LSR can reduce the
      threat of spoofed Targeted Hellos by filtering them and accepting only
      those originating at sources permitted by an access list. However,
      filtering using access lists requires LSR resource, and does not prevent
      IP-address spoofing.</t>

      <t>This document introduces a new Cryptographic Authentication TLV which
      is used in LDP Hello messages as an optional parameter. It enhances the
      authentication mechanism for LDP by securing the Hello message against
      spoofing attack. It also introduces a cryptographic sequence number
      carried in the Hello messages that can be used to protect against replay
      attacks. The LSRs could be configured to only accept Hello messages from
      specific peers when authentication is in use. </t>

      <t>Using this Cryptographic Authentication TLV, one or more secret keys
      (with corresponding Security Association (SA) IDs) are configured in
      each system. For each LDP Hello message, the key is used to generate and
      verify a HMAC Hash that is stored in the LDP Hello message. For
      cryptographic hash function, this document proposes to use SHA-1,
      SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 defined in US NIST Secure Hash Standard
      (SHS) <xref target="FIPS-180-3"/>. The HMAC authentication mode defined
      in <xref target="RFC2104"/> is used.
      <!-- Replaced FIPS by the respective RFC -->
      Of the above,
      implementations MUST include support for at least HMAC-SHA-256 and
      SHOULD include support for HMAC-SHA-1 and MAY include support for either
      of HMAC-SHA-384 or HMAC-SHA-512.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Cryptographic Authentication TLV">
      <section title="Optional Parameter for Hello Message">
        <t><xref target="RFC5036"/> defines the encoding for the Hello
        message. Each Hello message contains zero or more Optional Parameters,
        each encoded as a TLV. Three Optional Parameters are defined by <xref
        target="RFC5036"/>. This document defines a new Optional Parameter:
        the Cryptographic Authentication parameter.</t>

        <figure align="left">
          <artwork><![CDATA[
Optional Parameter               Type
-------------------------------  --------
IPv4 Transport Address           0x0401 (RFC5036)
Configuration Sequence Number    0x0402 (RFC5036)
IPv6 Transport Address           0x0403 (RFC5036)
Cryptographic Authentication     0x0404 (this document, TBD1 by IANA)

]]></artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>The Cryptographic Authentication TLV Encoding is described in
        section 2.3.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="LDP Security Association">
        <t>An LDP Security Association (SA) contains a set of parameters
        shared between any two legitimate LDP speakers.</t>

        <t>Parameters associated with an LDP SA are as follows:</t>

        <t><list style="symbols">
            <t>Security Association Identifier (SA ID) <vspace
            blankLines="1"/> This is a 32-bit unsigned integer used to
            uniquely identify an LDP SA between two LDP peers, as manually
            configured by the network operator (or, in the future, possibly by
            some key management protocol specified by the IETF) .<vspace
            blankLines="1"/> The receiver determines the active SA by looking
            at the SA ID field in the incoming Hello message. <vspace
            blankLines="1"/> The sender, based on the active configuration,
            selects an SA to use and puts the correct SA ID value associated
            with the SA in the LDP Hello message. If multiple valid and active
            LDP SAs exist for a given interface, the sender may use any of
            those SAs to protect the packet.<vspace blankLines="1"/> Using SA
            IDs makes changing keys while maintaining protocol operation
            convenient. Each SA ID specifies two independent parts, the
            authentication algorithm and the authentication key, as explained
            below. <vspace blankLines="1"/> Normally, an implementation would
            allow the network operator to configure a set of keys in a key
            chain, with each key in the chain having fixed lifetime. The
            actual operation of these mechanisms is outside the scope of this
            document.<vspace blankLines="1"/> Note that each SA ID can
            indicate a key with a different authentication algorithm. This
            allows the introduction of new authentication mechanisms without
            disrupting existing LDP sessions.</t>

            <t>Authentication Algorithm <vspace blankLines="1"/> This
            signifies the authentication algorithm to be used with the LDP SA.
            This information is never sent in clear text over the wire.
            Because this information is not sent on the wire, the implementer
            chooses an implementation specific representation for this
            information. <vspace blankLines="1"/> Currently, the following
            algorithms are supported: <vspace blankLines="1"/> HMAC-SHA-1,
            HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512.</t>

            <t>Authentication Key <vspace blankLines="1"/> This value denotes
            the cryptographic authentication key associated with the LDP SA.
            The length of this key is variable and depends upon the
            authentication algorithm specified by the LDP SA.</t>

            <t>KeyStartAccept <vspace blankLines="1"/> The time that this LDP
            router will accept packets that have been created with this LDP
            Security Association.</t>

            <t>KeyStartGenerate <vspace blankLines="1"/> The time that this
            LDP router will begin using this LDP Security Association for LDP
            Hello message generation.</t>

            <t>KeyStopGenerate <vspace blankLines="1"/> The time that this LDP
            router will stop using this LDP Security Association for LDP Hello
            message generation.</t>

            <t>KeyStopAccept <vspace blankLines="1"/> The time that this LDP
            router will stop accepting packets generated with this LDP
            Security Association.</t>
          </list></t>

        <t>In order to achieve smooth key transition, KeyStartAccept SHOULD be
        less than KeyStartGenerate and KeyStopGenerate SHOULD be less than
        KeyStopAccept. If KeyStartGenerate or KeyStartAccept are left
        unspecified, the time will default to 0 and the key will be used
        immediately. If KeyStopGenerate or KeyStopAccept are left unspecified,
        the time will default to infinity and the key's lifetime will be
        infinite. When a new key replaces an old, the KeyStartGenerate time
        for the new key MUST be less than or equal to the KeyStopGenerate time
        of the old key. Any unspecified values are encoded as Zero.</t>

        <t>Key storage SHOULD persist across a system restart, warm or cold,
        to avoid operational issues. In the event that the last key associated
        with an interface expires, it is unacceptable to revert to an
        unauthenticated condition, and not advisable to disrupt routing.
        Therefore, the router SHOULD send a "last Authentication Key
        expiration" notification to the network manager and treat the key as
        having an infinite lifetime until the lifetime is extended, the key is
        deleted by network management, or a new key is configured</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Cryptographic Authentication TLV Encoding">
        <figure align="left">
          <artwork><![CDATA[
    0                   1                   2                   3  
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |0|0|        Auth (TBD1)        |             Length            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                  Security Association ID                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       Cryptographic Sequence Number (High Order 32 Bits)      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       Cryptographic Sequence Number (Low Order 32 Bits)       |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   |                Authentication Data (Variable)                 |
   ~                                                               ~
   |                                                               |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
]]></artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>- Type: TBD1, Cryptographic Authentication</t>

        <t>- Length: Specifying the length in octets of the value field.</t>

        <t>- Security Association ID: 32 bit field that maps to the
        authentication algorithm and the secret key used to create the message
        digest carried in LDP payload.</t>

        <t>Though the SA ID implies the algorithm, the HMAC output size should
        not be used by implementers as an implicit hint, because additional
        algorithms may be defined in the future that have the same output
        size.</t>

        <t>- Cryptographic Sequence Number: 64-bit strictly increasing
        sequence number that is used to guard against replay attacks. The
        64-bit sequence number MUST be incremented for every LDP Hello packet
        sent by the LDP router. Upon reception, the sequence number MUST be
        greater than the sequence number in the last LDP Hello packet accepted
        from the sending LDP neighbor. Otherwise, the LDP packet is considered
        a replayed packet and dropped.</t>

        <t>LDP routers implementing this specification MUST use existing
        mechanisms to preserve the sequence number's strictly increasing
        property for the deployed life of the LDP router (including cold
        restarts). One mechanism for accomplishing this could be to use the
        high-order 32 bits of the sequence number as a boot count that is
        incremented anytime the LDP router loses its sequence number state.
        Techniques such as sequence number space partitioning described above
        or non-volatile storage preservation can be used but are beyond the
        scope of this specification. Sequence number wrap is described in
        <xref target="Sequence-Wrap"/>.</t>

        <t>- Authentication Data:</t>

        <t>This field carries the digest computed by the Cryptographic
        Authentication algorithm in use. The length of the Authentication Data
        varies based on the cryptographic algorithm in use, which is shown as
        below:</t>

        <figure align="left">
          <artwork><![CDATA[
Auth type        Length
---------------  ----------
HMAC-SHA1        20 bytes
HMAC-SHA-256     32 bytes
HMAC-SHA-384     48 bytes
HMAC-SHA-512     64 bytes
]]></artwork>
        </figure>
      </section>

      <section anchor="Sequence-Wrap" title="Sequence Number Wrap">
        <t>When incrementing the sequence number for each transmitted LDP
        packet, the sequence number should be treated as an unsigned 64-bit
        value. If the lower order 32-bit value wraps, the higher order 32-bit
        value should be incremented and saved in non-volatile storage. If the
        LDP router is deployed long enough that the 64-bit sequence number
        wraps, all keys, independent of key distribution mechanism MUST be
        reset. This is done to avoid the possibility of replay attacks. Once
        the keys have been changed, the higher order sequence number can be
        reset to 0 and saved to non-volatile storage.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Crypto_Auth_Procedure"
             title="Cryptographic Authentication Procedure">
      <t>As noted earlier, the Security Association ID maps to the
      authentication algorithm and the secret key used to generate and verify
      the message digest. This specification discusses the computation of LDP
      Cryptographic Authentication data when any of the NIST SHS family of
      algorithms is used in the Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC)
      mode. <vspace blankLines="1"/> The currently valid algorithms (including
      mode) for LDP Cryptographic Authentication include: <vspace
      blankLines="1"/> HMAC-SHA-1, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384 and HMAC-SHA-512
      <vspace blankLines="1"/> Of the above, implementations of this
      specification MUST include support for at least HMAC-SHA-256 and SHOULD
      include support for HMAC-SHA-1 and MAY also include support for
      HMAC-SHA-384 and HMAC-SHA-512.<vspace blankLines="1"/> Implementations
      of this standard MUST use HMAC-SHA-256 as the default authentication
      algorithm.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Cross-Protocol" title="Cross Protocol Attack Mitigation">
      <t>In order to prevent cross protocol replay attacks for protocols
      sharing common keys, the two octet LDP Cryptographic Protocol ID is
      appended to the authentication key prior to use (refer to Section 8).
      Other protocols using the common key similarly append their own
      Cryptographic Protocol IDs to their keys prior to use thus ensuring that
      a different key value is used for each protocol.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Cryptographic Aspects">
      <t>In the algorithm description below, the following nomenclature is used:</t>
      <!-- No need to reference FIPS when we have an RFC for HMAC -->

      <t>H is the specific hashing algorithm (e.g. SHA-256). <vspace
      blankLines="1"/> K is the Authentication Key from the LDP security
      association.<vspace blankLines="1"/> Ks is a Protocol Specific
      Authentication Key obtained by appending Authentication Key (K) with the
      two-octet LDP Cryptographic Protocol ID .<vspace
      blankLines="1"/> Ko is the cryptographic key used with the hash
      algorithm.</t>
<!-- Removed parameters that are not needed if HMAC is a black box -->
      <t>L is the length of the hash, measured in octets rather than
      bits.<vspace blankLines="1"/> AuthTag is a value which is the same length
      <!-- renamed Apad to AuthTag, because it is not a padding string -->
      as the hash output. In case of IPv4, the first 4
      octets contain the IPv4 source address followed by the hexadecimal value
      0x878FE1F3 repeated (L-4)/4 times. In case of IPv6, the first 16 octets
      contain the IPv6 source address followed by the hexadecimal value
      0x878FE1F3 repeated (L-16)/4 times. This implies that hash output is
      always a length of at least 16 octets. <vspace blankLines="1"/></t>

      <section title="Preparing the Cryptographic Key">
        <t>The LDP Cryptographic Protocol ID is appended to the Authentication
        Key (K) yielding a Protocol Specific Authentication Key (Ks). In this
        application, Ko is always L octets long.

	Keys that are longer than the bit length of the hash function are hashed to force them
	to this length, as we describe below.
	<!-- discussion about longer keys removed. we are simply following RFC 2104. -->
	Ks is computed as follows:</t>


        <t>If the Protocol Specific Authentication Key (Ks) is L octets long,
        then Ko is equal to Ks. If the Protocol Specific Authentication Key
        (Ks) is more than L octets long, then Ko is set to H(Ks). If the
        Protocol Specific Authentication Key (Ks) is less than L octets long,
        then Ko is set to the Protocol Specific Authentication Key (Ks) with
        zeros appended to the end of the Protocol Specific Authentication Key
        (Ks) such that Ko is L octets long.</t>
	
	<t>  For higher entropy it is RECOMMENDED that Key Ks 
	should be at least L octets long. 
	</t>

      </section>

      <section title="Computing the Hash">
        <t>First, the Authentication Data field in the Cryptographic
        Authentication TLV is filled with the value AuthTag. Then, to compute
        HMAC over the Hello message it performs:</t>

        <t>AuthData = HMAC(Ko, Hello Message)</t>

        <t>Hello Message refers to the LDP Hello message excluding the IP
        and the UDP headers.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Result">
        <t>The resultant Hash becomes the Authentication Data that is sent in
        the Authentication Data field of the Cryptographic Authentication TLV.
        The length of the Authentication Data field is always identical to the
        message digest size of the specific hash function H that is being
        used.</t>

        <t>This also means that the use of hash functions with larger output
        sizes will also increase the size of the LDP message as transmitted on
        the wire.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Processing Hello Message Using Cryptographic Authentication">
      <section title="Transmission Using Cryptographic Authentication">
        <t>Prior to transmitting the Hello message, the Length in the
        Cryptographic Authentication TLV header is set as per the
        authentication algorithm that is being used. It is set to 24 for
        HMAC-SHA-1, 36 for HMAC-SHA-256, 52 for HMAC-SHA-384 and 68 for
        HMAC-SHA-512.</t>

        <t>The Security Association ID field is set to the ID of the current
        authentication key. The HMAC Hash is computed as explained in Section
        3. The resulting Hash is stored in the Authentication Data field prior
        to transmission. The authentication key MUST NOT be carried in the
        packet.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Receipt Using Cryptographic Authentication">
        <t>The receiving LSR applies acceptability criteria for received
        Hellos using cryptographic authentication. If the Cryptographic
        Authentication TLV is unknown to the receiving LSR, the received
        packet MUST be discarded according to Section 3.5.1.2.2 of <xref
        target="RFC5036"/>.</t>

        <t>The receiving LSR locates the LDP SA using the Security Association
        ID field carried in the message. If the SA is not found, or if the SA
        is not valid for reception (i.e., current time < KeyStartAccept or
        current time >= KeyStopAccept), LDP Hello message MUST be
        discarded, and an error event SHOULD be logged.</t>

        <t>If the cryptographic sequence number in the LDP packet is less than
        or equal to the last sequence number received from the same neighbor,
        the LDP message MUST be discarded, and an error event SHOULD be
        logged.</t>

        <t>Before the receiving LSR performs any processing, it needs to save
        the values of the Authentication Data field. The receiving LSR then
        replaces the contents of the Authentication Data field with AuthTag,
        computes the Hash, using the authentication key specified by the
        received Security Association ID field, as explained in Section 3. If
        the locally computed Hash is equal to the received value of the
        Authentication Data field, the received packet is accepted for other
        normal checks and processing as described in <xref target="RFC5036"/>.
        Otherwise, if the locally computed Hash is not equal to the received
        value of the Authentication Data field, the received packet MUST be
        discarded, and an error event SHOULD be logged. The foresaid logging
        need to be carefully rate limited, since while a LDP router is under
        attack of a storm of spoofed hellos, the resource taking for logging
        could be overwelming.</t>

        <t>After the LDP Hello message has been successfully authenticated,
        implementations MUST store the 64-bit cryptographic sequence number
        for the Hello message received from the neighbor. The saved
        cryptographic sequence numbers will be used for replay checking for
        subsequent packets received from the neighbor.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Security" title="Security Considerations">
      <t>Section 1 of this document describes the security issues arising from
      the use of unauthenticated LDP Hello messages. In order to address those
      issues, it is RECOMMENDED that all deployments use the Cryptographic
      Authentication TLV to authenticate the Hello messages.</t>

      <t>The quality of the security provided by the Cryptographic
      Authentication TLV depends completely on the strength of the
      cryptographic algorithm in use, the strength of the key being used, and
      the correct implementation of the security mechanism in communicating
      LDP implementations. Also, the level of security provided by the
      Cryptographic Authentication TLV varies based on the authentication type
      used.</t>

      <t>It should be noted that the authentication method described in this
      document is not being used to authenticate the specific originator of a
      packet but is rather being used to confirm that the packet has indeed
      been issued by a router that has access to the Authentication Key.</t>

      <t>Deployments SHOULD use sufficiently long and random values for the
      Authentication Key so that guessing and other cryptographic attacks on
      the key are not feasible in their environments. In support of
      these recommendations, management systems SHOULD support hexadecimal
      input of Authentication Keys.</t>

      <t>The mechanism described herein is not perfect .
      However, this mechanism introduces a significant increase in
      the effort required for an adversary to successfully attack the LDP
      Hello protocol while not causing undue implementation, deployment, or
      operational complexity.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="IANA" title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>The IANA is requested to as assign a new TLV from the "Multiprotocol
      Label Switching Architecture (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
      Parameters - TLVs" registry, "TLVs and sub-TLVs" sub- registry.</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[Value   Meaning                            Reference
-----   --------------------------------   ---------
TBD1     Cryptographic Authentication TLV   this document (sect 2.3)
]]></artwork>
        </figure></t>

      <t>The IANA is also requested to as assign value from the
      "Authentication Cryptographic Protocol ID", registry under the "Keying
      and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Parameters"
      category.</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[
Value   Meaning                            Reference
-----   --------------------------------   ---------
TBD2     LDP Cryptographic Protocol ID      this document (sect 4)
]]></artwork>
        </figure></t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Acknowledgements" title="Acknowledgements">
       <t> We are indebted to Yaron Sheffer who helped us enormously 
           in rewriting the draft to get rid of the redundant
	   crypto mathematics that we had added here.
       </t>
      <t>We would also like to thank Liu Xuehu for his work on background
      and motivation for LDP Hello authentication. And last but not the least,
       we would also thank Adrian Farrel, Eric Rosen, Sam Hartman, Stephen Farrell,
        Eric Gray, Kamran Raza and Acee Lindem for their valuable comments.</t>

      <!-- minor copyedit -->
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.2119"?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5036'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5709'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5310'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.4822'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.7166'?>
      
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.2104'?>

      <reference anchor="FIPS-180-3">
        <front>
          <title>Secure Hash Standard (SHS), FIPS PUB 180-3</title>

          <author fullname="National Institute of Standards and Technology">
            <organization/>
          </author>

          <date month="October" year="2008"/>
        </front>
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="FIPS-198">
        <front>
          <title>The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), FIPS PUB
          198</title>

          <author fullname="US National Institute of Standards & Technology">
            <organization/>
          </author>

          <date month="March" year="2002"/>
        </front>
      </reference>
    </references>

    <references title="Informative References">
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5082'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5926'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6720'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6952'?>

    </references>
  </back>
</rfc>

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