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Network Working Group M. Gupta
Internet Draft Nokia
Document: draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-05.txt N. Melam
Expires: April 2005 Nokia
October 2004
Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3
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Abstract
This document describes means/mechanisms to provide
authentication/confidentiality to OSPFv3 using an IPv6 AH/ESP
Extension Header.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society. (2004)
Conventions used in this document
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 RFC-2119 [N7].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction...................................................2
2. Transport Mode vs Tunnel Mode..................................2
3. Authentication.................................................3
4. Confidentiality................................................3
5. Distinguishing OSPFv3 from OSPFv2..............................4
6. IPsec Requirements.............................................4
7. Key Management.................................................4
8. SA Granularity and Selectors...................................6
9. Virtual Links..................................................7
10. Changing Keys.................................................8
11. IPsec rules...................................................8
12. Mandatory Encryption and Authentication Algorithms...........10
13. Replay Protection............................................10
Security Considerations..........................................10
Normative References.............................................11
Informative References...........................................11
Acknowledgments..................................................11
Authors' Addresses...............................................12
1. Introduction
OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) Version 2 [N1] defines fields AuType
and Authentication in its protocol header in order to provide
security. In OSPF for IPv6 (OSPFv3) [N2], both of the authentication
fields were removed from OSPF headers. OSPFv3 relies on the
IPv6 Authentication Header (AH) and IPv6 Encapsulating Security
Payload (ESP) to provide integrity, authentication and/or
confidentiality.
This document describes how IPv6 AH/ESP extension headers can be used
to provide authentication/confidentiality to OSPFv3.
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with OSPFv3 [N2], AH [N5],
ESP [N4], the concept of security associations, tunnel and transport
mode of IPsec and the key management options available for AH and ESP
(manual keying [N3] and Internet Key Exchange (IKE)[I1]).
2. Transport Mode vs Tunnel Mode
Transport mode Security Association (SA) is the security association
between two hosts or routers/gateways when they are acting as hosts.
SA must be tunnel mode if either end of the security association is a
router/gateway. OSPFv3 packets are exchanged between the routers but
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as the packets are destined to the routers, the routers act like
hosts in this case. So transport mode SA MUST be used in order to
provide required security to OSPFv3.
3. Authentication
Implementations conforming to this specification MUST support
Authentication for OSPFv3.
In order to provide authentication to OSPFv3, "ESP with NULL
encryption" MUST be supported and AH SHOULD be supported by the
implementation.
If "ESP with NULL encryption" in transport mode is used, it will
provide authentication to only OSPFv3 protocol headers but not to the
IPv6 header, extension headers and options.
If AH in transport mode is used, it will provide authentication to
OSPFv3 protocol headers, selected portions of IPv6 header, selected
portions of extension headers and selected options.
When OSPFv3 authentication is enabled,
O OSPFv3 packets that are not protected with AH or ESP MUST be
silently discarded.
O OSPFv3 packets that fail the authentication checks MUST be
silently discarded.
4. Confidentiality
Implementations conforming to this specification SHOULD support
confidentiality for OSPFv3.
If confidentiality is provided, "ESP with non-null encryption" MUST
be used.
When OSPFv3 confidentiality is enabled,
O OSPFv3 packets that are not protected with ESP MUST be silently
discarded.
O OSPFv3 packets that fail the confidentiality checks MUST be
silently discarded.
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5. Distinguishing OSPFv3 from OSPFv2
The IP/IPv6 Protocol Type for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 is same (89) and
OSPF distinguishes them based on the OSPF header version number.
However current IPsec standards do not allow using arbitrary protocol
specific header fields as the selectors. Therefore, in order to
distinguish OSPFv3 packets from the OSPFv2 packets, OSPF version
field in the OSPF header cannot be used. As OSPFv2 is only for IPv4
and OSPFv3 is only for IPv6, version field in IP header can be used
to distinguish OSPFv3 packets from OSPFv2 packets.
6. IPsec Requirements
In order to implement this specification, the following IPsec
capabilities are required.
Transport Mode
IPsec in transport mode MUST be supported. [N3]
Traffic Selectors
The implementation MUST be able to use interface index, source
address, destination address, protocol and direction for choosing
the right security action.
Manual key support
Manually configured keys MUST be able to secure the specified
traffic. [N3]
Encryption and Authentication Algorithms
AES-CBC and HMAC-SHA1 MUST be supported as the encryption and the
authentication algorithms respectively. [N6]
Dynamic IPsec rule configuration
Routing module SHOULD be able to configure, modify and delete
IPsec rules on the fly. This is needed mainly for securing
virtual links.
7. Key Management
OSPFv3 exchanges both multicast and unicast packets. While running
OSPFv3 over a broadcast interface, the authentication/confidentiality
required is "one to many". Since IKE is based on the Diffie-Hellman
key agreement protocol and works only for two communicating parties,
it is not possible to use IKE for providing the required "one to
many" authentication/confidentiality. Manual keying MUST be used for
this purpose. In manual keying SAs are statically installed on the
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routers and these static SAs are used to authenticate/encrypt the
packets.
The following discussion explains that it is not scalable and
practically infeasible to use different security associations for
inbound and outbound traffic in order to provide the required "one to
many" security. Therefore, the implementations MUST use manually
configured keys with same SA for inbound and outbound traffic (as
shown in Figure 3).
A |
SAa ------------>|
SAb <------------|
|
B |
SAb ------------>|
SAa <------------| Figure: 1
|
C |
SAa/SAb ------------>|
SAa/SAb <------------|
|
Broadcast
Network
If we consider communication between A and B in Figure 1, everything
seems to be fine. A uses security association SAa for outbound
packets and B uses the same for inbound packets and vice versa. Now
if we include C in the group and C sends a packet out using SAa then
only A will be able to understand it or if C sends the packets out
using SAb then only B will be able to understand it. Since the
packets are multicast packets and they are going to be processed by
both A and B, there is no SA for C to use so that A and B both can
understand it.
A |
SAa ------------>|
SAb <------------|
SAc <------------|
|
B |
SAb ------------>|
SAa <------------| Figure: 2
SAc <------------|
|
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C |
SAc ------------>|
SAa <------------|
SAb <------------|
|
Broadcast
Network
The problem can be solved by configuring SAs for all the nodes on all
the nodes as shown in Figure 2. So A, B and C will use SAa, SAb and
SAc respectively for outbound traffic. Each node will lookup the SA
to be used based on the source (A will use SAb and SAc for packets
received from B and C respectively). This solution is not scalable
and practically infeasible because every node will need to be
configured with a large number of SAs and addition of a node in the
network will cause addition of another SA on all the nodes.
A |
SAs ------------>|
SAs <------------|
|
B |
SAs ------------>|
SAs <------------| Figure: 3
|
C |
SAs ------------>|
SAs <------------|
|
Broadcast
Network
The problem can also be solved by using the same SA for inbound and
outbound traffic as shown in Figure 3.
8. SA Granularity and Selectors
The user SHOULD be given a choice to share the same SA among multiple
interfaces or using unique SA per interface.
OSPFv3 supports running multiple instances over one interface using
the "Instance Id" field contained in the OSPFv3 header. As IPsec
does not support arbitrary fields in protocol header to be used as
the selectors, it is not possible to use different SAs for different
instances of OSPFv3 running over the same interface. Therefore, all
the instances of OSPFv3 running over the same interface will have to
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use the same SA. In OSPFv3 RFC terminology, SAs are per-link and not
per-interface.
9. Virtual Links
Different SA than the SA of underlying interface MUST be provided for
virtual links. Packets sent out on virtual links use unicast non-
link local IPv6 addresses as the IPv6 source address and all the
other packets use multicast and unicast link local addresses. This
difference in the IPv6 source address is used in order to
differentiate the packets sent on interfaces and virtual links.
As the end point IP addresses of the virtual links are not known at
the time of configuration, the secure channel for these packets needs
to be set up dynamically. The end point IP addresses of virtual
links are learned during the routing table build up process. The
packet exchange over the virtual links starts only after the
discovery of end point IP addresses. In order to provide security to
these exchanges, the routing module should setup a secure IPsec
channel dynamically once it acquires the required information.
According to the OSPFv3 RFC [N2], the virtual neighbor's IP address
is set to the first prefix with the "LA-bit" set from the list of
prefixes in intra-area-prefix-LSAs originated by the virtual
neighbor. But when it comes to choosing the source address for the
packets that are sent over the virtual link, the RFC simply suggests
using one of the router's own site-local or global IPv6 addresses.
In order to install the required security rules for virtual links,
the source address also needs to be predictable. So the routers that
implement this specification MUST change the way the source and
destination addresses are chosen for the packets exchanged over
virtual links when the security is enabled on that virtual link.
The first IPv6 address with the "LA-bit" set in the list of prefixes
advertised in intra-area-prefix-LSAs in the transit area MUST be used
as the source address for packets exchanged over the virtual link.
When multiple intra-area-prefix-LSAs are originated they are
considered as being concatenated and are ordered by ascending Link
State ID.
The first IPv6 address with the "LA-bit" set in the list of prefixes
received in intra-area-prefix-LSAs from the virtual neighbor in the
transit area MUST be used as the destination address for packets
exchanged over the virtual link. When multiple intra-area-prefix-
LSAs are received they are considered as being concatenated and are
ordered by ascending Link State ID.
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This makes both the source and destination addresses of the packets
exchanged over the virtual link, predictable on both the routers for
security purposes.
10. Changing Keys
To maintain the security of a link, the key values SHOULD be changed
from time to time. The following three-step procedure SHOULD be
provided to rekey the routers on a link without dropping OSPFv3
protocol packets or disrupting the adjacency.
(1) For every router on the link, create an additional inbound SA for
the interface being rekeyed using a new SPI and the new key.
(2) For every router on the link, replace the original outbound SA
with one using the new SPI and key values. The SA replacement
operation should be atomic with respect to sending OSPFv3 packets
on the link so that no OSPFv3 packets are sent without
authentication/encryption.
(3) For every router on the link, remove the original inbound SA.
Note that all the routers on the link must complete step 1 before any
begin step 2. Likewise, all the routers on the link must complete
step 2 before any begin step 3.
One way to control the progression from one step to the next is for
each router to have a configurable time constant KeyRolloverInterval.
After the router begins step 1 on a given link, it waits for this
interval and then moves to step 2. Likewise, after moving to step 2,
it waits for this interval and then moves to step 3.
In order to achieve smooth key transition, all the routers on a link
should use the same value for KeyRolloverInterval, and should
initiate the key rollover process within this time period.
At the end of this procedure, all the routers will have a single
inbound and outbound SA for OSPFv3 on the link with the new SPI and
key values.
11. IPsec rules
The following set of transport mode rules can be installed in a
typical IPsec implementation to provide the
authentication/confidentiality to OSPFv3 packets.
Outbound Rules for interface running OSPFv3 security:
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No. source destination protocol action
1 fe80::/10 any OSPF apply
Outbound Rules for virtual links running OSPFv3 security:
No. source destination protocol action
2 src/128 dst/128 OSPF apply
Inbound Rules for interface running OSPFv3 security:
No. source destination protocol action
3 fe80::/10 any ESP/OSPF or AH/OSPF apply
4 fe80::/10 any OSPF drop
Inbound Rules for virtual links running OSPFv3 security:
No. source destination protocol action
5 src/128 dst/128 ESP/OSPF or AH/OSPF apply
6 src/128 dst/128 OSPF drop
For outbound rules, action "apply" means encrypting/calculating ICV
and adding ESP or AH header. For inbound rules, action "apply" means
decrypting/authenticating the packets and stripping ESP or AH header.
Rules 4 and 6 are to drop the insecure OSPFv3 packets without ESP/AH
headers.
ESP/OSPF or AH/OSPF in rules 3 and 5 mean that it is an OSPF packet
secured with ESP or AH.
Rules 1, 3 and 4 are meant to secure the unicast and multicast OSPF
packets that are not being exchanged over the virtual links. These
rules MUST be installed only in the security policy database (SPD) of
the interface running OSPFv3 security.
Rules 2, 5 and 6 are meant to secure the packets being exchanged over
virtual links. These rules are dynamically installed after learning
the end point IP addresses of a virtual link. These rules MUST be
installed on at least the interfaces that are connected to the
transit area for the virtual link. These rules MAY alternatively be
installed on all the interfaces. If these rules are not installed on
all the interfaces, clear text or malicious OSPFv3 packets with same
source and destination addresses as virtual link end point addresses
will be delivered to OSPFv3. Though OSPFv3 drops these packets
because they were not received on the right interface, OSPFv3
receives some clear text or malicious packets even when the security
is on. Installing these rules on all the interfaces insures that
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OSPFv3 does not receive these clear text or malicious packets when
security is turned on. On the other hand installing these rules on
all the interfaces increases the processing overhead on the
interfaces where there is no IPsec processing otherwise. The
decision of installing these rules on all the interfaces or on just
the interfaces that are connected to the transit area is a private
decision and doesn't affect the interoperability in any way. So this
decision is left to the implementers.
12. Mandatory Encryption and Authentication Algorithms
The implementation MUST allow the user to choose AES-CBC as the
encryption algorithm and HMAC-SHA1 as the authentication algorithm
for securing OSPFv3 packets.
The implementation MUST NOT allow the user to choose stream ciphers
as the encryption algorithm for securing OSPFv3 packets as the stream
ciphers are not suitable for manual keys.
13. Replay Protection
As it is not possible as per the current standards to provide
complete replay protection while using manual keying, the proposed
solution will not provide protection against replay attacks.
Fields LS age, LS Sequence Number and LS checksum in LSA header are
kept intact in OSPFv3. Though these fields do not provide the
complete protection, they certainly help against replay attacks.
Security Considerations
This memo discusses the use of IPsec AH and ESP headers in order to
provide security to OSPFv3 for IPv6. Hence security permeates
throughout this document.
This specification mandates the usage of manual keys. The following
are the known limitations of the usage of manual keys.
O Manual keys are usually long lived (changing them very often is
a tedious task). This gives an attacker enough time to discover
the keys.
O As the administrator is manually configuring the keys, there is
a chance that the configured keys are weak (there are known weak
keys for DES/3DES at least).
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O As the sequence numbers can not be negotiated, replay protection
can not be provided.
Inspite of the above known limitations, the security provided by the
usage of the manual keys should be adequate for a routing protocol.
Normative References
N1. Moy, J., "OSPF version 2", RFC 2328, April 1998
N2. Coltun, R., Ferguson, D. and J. Moy, "OSPF for IPv6", RFC 2740,
December 1999
N3. Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the Internet
Protocol", RFC XXXX, date [Note to RFC-Editor: Replace XXXX with
the number of the RFC 2401 replacement].
N4. Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", RFC XXXY,
date [Note to RFC-Editor: Replace XXXY with the number of the RFC
2406 replacement].
N5. Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header (AH)", RFC XXXZ, date [Note to
RFC-Editor: Replace XXXZ with the number of the RFC 2402
replacement].
N6. Eastlake, D., "Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements
For ESP And AH", RFC XXYY, date [Note to RFC-Editor: Replace XXYY
with the number of the RFC that the draft draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-ah-
algorithms-02.txt gets].
N7. Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
Level", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
Informative References
I1. Kaufman, C., "The Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol", RFC
XXZZ, date [Note to RFC-Editor: Replace XXZZ with the number of the
RFC 2409 replacement].
Acknowledgments
Authors would like to extend sincere thanks to Marc Solsona, Janne
Peltonen, John Cruz, Dhaval Shah, Abhay Roy and Paul Wells for
providing useful information and critiques in order to write this
memo.
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We would also like to thank IPsec and OSPF WG people to provide
valuable review comments.
Authors' Addresses
Mukesh Gupta
Nokia
313 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: 650-625-2264
Email: Mukesh.Gupta@nokia.com
Nagavenkata Suresh Melam
Nokia
313 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
Phone: 650-625-2949
Email: Nagavenkata.Melam@nokia.com
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