The Authentication of Internet Datagrams
draft-ietf-auth-ipauthoption-00
| Document | Type |
Expired Internet-Draft
(candidate for ipauth WG)
Expired & archived
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| Last updated | 1989-08-01 | ||
| RFC stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
| Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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| Stream | WG state | Call For Adoption By WG Issued | |
| Document shepherd | (None) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
| Telechat date | (None) | ||
| Responsible AD | (None) | ||
| Send notices to | (None) |
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Abstract
This draft describes a protocol and IP option to allow two communicating Internet hosts to authenticate datagrams that travel from one to the other. This authentication is limited to source, destination IP address pair. It is up to host-based mechanisms to provide authentication between separate processes running on the same IP host. The protocol will provide for ``authentication'' of the datagram, not concealment from third party observers. By authentication, I mean that an IP host receiving a datagram claiming to be from some other IP host will be able (if both hosts are set up to authenticate datagrams between each other) to determine if in fact the datagram is from the host claimed, and that it has not been altered in transit.
Authors
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