Quick and Dirty Secure Autonomic Control Plane for GRASP
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Network Working Group                                    B. E. Carpenter
Internet-Draft                                         Univ. of Auckland
Intended status: Informational                              29 June 2020
Expires: 31 December 2020

        Quick and Dirty Secure Autonomic Control Plane for GRASP
                  draft-carpenter-anima-quads-grasp-03

Abstract

   A secure substrate known as the Autonomic Control Plane (ACP) is
   required by the Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol (GRASP) used by
   Autonomic Service Agents.  This document describes QUADS, a QUick And
   Dirty Secure ACP using symmetric cryptography and preconfigured keys
   or passwords.  It also describes a simplistic QUADS Key
   Infrastructure based on asymmetric cryptography used over insecure
   instances of GRASP to create a QUADS ACP.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  QUick And Dirty Security ACP Method . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  QUick And Dirty Security Key Infrastructure . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Implementation Status [RFC Editor: please remove] . . . . . .   6
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   Appendix A.  Change log [RFC Editor: Please remove] . . . . . . .   9
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10

1.  Introduction

   As defined in [I-D.ietf-anima-reference-model], the Autonomic Service
   Agent (ASA) is the atomic entity of an autonomic function, and it is
   instantiated on autonomic nodes.  When ASAs communicate with each
   other, they should use the Generic Autonomic Signaling Protocol
   (GRASP) [I-D.ietf-anima-grasp].  It is essential that such
   communication is strongly secured to avoid malicious interference
   with the Autonomic Network Infrastructure (ANI).

   For this reason, GRASP must run over a secure substrate that is
   isolated from regular data plane traffic.  This substrate is known as
   the Autonomic Control Plane (ACP).  A method for constructing an ACP
   at the network layer is described in
   [I-D.ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane].  Scenarios for link layer
   ACPs are discussed in [I-D.carpenter-anima-l2acp-scenarios].  The
   present document describes a simple method of forming an ACP
   immediately above the transport layer, known as QUADS (QUick And
   Dirty Security) ACP for GRASP.

   It also describes a simplistic key infrastructure known as QUADSKI,
   using asymmetric cryptography embedded in GRASP objectives used over
   insecure instances of GRASP.

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2.  QUick And Dirty Security ACP Method

   Every GRASP message, whether unicast or multicast, is encrypted
   immediately before transmission, and decrypted immediately after
   reception, using the same symmetric encryption algorithm and domain-
   wide shared keys.  This applies to all unicast and multicast messages