Remote Attestation Procedures for Network Security Functions (NSFs) through the I2NSF Security Controller
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Interface to Network Security Functions                        A. Pastor
Internet-Draft                                                  D. Lopez
Intended status: Experimental                             Telefonica I+D
Expires: January 2, 2019                                         A. Shaw
                                                    Hewlett Packard Labs
                                                            July 1, 2018

  Remote Attestation Procedures for Network Security Functions (NSFs)
                 through the I2NSF Security Controller
              draft-pastor-i2nsf-nsf-remote-attestation-04

Abstract

   This document describes the procedures a client can follow to assess
   the trust on an external NSF platform and its client-defined
   configuration through the I2NSF Security Controller.  The procedure
   to assess trustworthiness is based on a remote attestation of the
   platform and the NSFs running on it performed through a Trusted
   Platform Module (TPM) invoked by the Security Controller.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Requirements Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   3.  Establishing Client Trust  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.1.  First Step: Client-Agnostic Attestation  . . . . . . . . .  4
     3.2.  Second Step: Client-Specific Attestation . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.3.  Trusted Computing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.4.  Topology Attestation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.  NSF Attestation Principles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.1.  Requirements for a Trusted NSF Platform  . . . . . . . . .  9
       4.1.1.  Trusted Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       4.1.2.  Remote Attestation Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       4.1.3.  Secure Boot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   5.  Remote Attestation Procedures  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     5.1.  Trusted Channel with the Security Controller . . . . . . . 12
     5.2.  Security Controller Attestation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.3.  Platform Attestation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   6.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   8.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     8.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     8.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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1.  Introduction

   As described in [RFC8192], the use of externally provided NSF implies
   several additional concerns in security.  The most relevant threats
   associated with a externalized platform are detailed in
   [I-D.ietf-i2nsf-framework].  As stated there, mutual authentication
   between the user and the NSF environment and, more importantly, the
   attestation of the components in this environment by clients, could
   address these threats and provide an acceptable level of risk.  In
   particular:

   o  Client impersonation will be minimized by mutual authentication,
      and since appropriate records of such authentications will be made