Bundle Protocol Security Specification
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Delay-Tolerant Networking E. Birrane
Internet-Draft K. McKeever
Intended status: Standards Track JHU/APL
Expires: May 3, 2018 October 30, 2017
Bundle Protocol Security Specification
draft-ietf-dtn-bpsec-06
Abstract
This document defines a security protocol providing end to end data
integrity and confidentiality services for the Bundle Protocol.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Supported Security Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Specification Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3. Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Design Decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Block-Level Granularity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Multiple Security Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Mixed Security Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. User-Selected Cipher Suites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.5. Deterministic Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Security Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Uniqueness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3. Target Multiplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Target Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.5. Block Representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.6. Abstract Security Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.7. Block Integrity Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.8. Block Confidentiality Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.9. Block Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.10. Cipher Suite Parameter and Result Identification . . . . 17
3.11. BSP Block Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4. Canonical Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Security Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.1. Bundles Received from Other Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.1.1. Receiving BCB Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.1.2. Receiving BIB Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.2. Bundle Fragmentation and Reassembly . . . . . . . . . . . 22
6. Key Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7. Security Policy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.1. Attacker Capabilities and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.2. Attacker Behaviors and BPSec Mitigations . . . . . . . . 25
8.2.1. Eavesdropping Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.2.2. Modification Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
8.2.3. Topology Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
8.2.4. Message Injection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
9. Cipher Suite Authorship Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . 28
10. Defining Other Security Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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