The IP Security Maintenance and Extensions (ipsecme) WG in the Security Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chairs. IP Security Maintenance and Extensions (ipsecme) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Current status: Active WG Chairs: David Waltermire <david.waltermire@nist.gov> Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Assigned Area Director: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Security Area Directors: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mailing list: Address: ipsec@ietf.org To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ipsec/ Group page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/ipsecme/ Charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-ipsecme/ The IPsec suite of protocols includes IKEv1 (RFC 2409 and associated RFCs, IKEv1 is now obsoleted), IKEv2 (RFC 7296), and the IPsec security architecture (RFC 4301). IPsec is widely deployed in VPN gateways, VPN remote access clients, and as a substrate for host-to-host, host-to-network, and network-to-network security. The IPsec Maintenance and Extensions Working Group continues the work of the earlier IPsec Working Group which was concluded in 2005. Its purpose is to maintain the IPsec standard and to facilitate discussion of clarifications, improvements, and extensions to IPsec, mostly to ESP and IKEv2. The working group also serves as a focus point for other IETF Working Groups who use IPsec in their own protocols. The current work items include: IKEv1 using shared secret authentication was partially resistant to quantum computers. IKEv2 removed this feature to make the protocol more usable. The working group will add a mode to IKEv2 or otherwise modify the shared-secret mode of IKEv2 to have similar or better quantum resistant properties to those of IKEv1. Split-DNS is a common configuration for VPN deployments in which only one or a few private DNS domains are accessible and resolvable via the tunnel. Adding new configuration attributes to IKEv2 for configuring Split-DNS would allow more deployments to adopt IKEv2. This configuration should also allow verification of the domains using DNSSEC. Working group will specify needed configuration attributes for IKEv2. Currently, widely used counter mode based ciphers send both the ESP sequence number and IV in the form of a counter, as they are very commonly the same. There has been interest to work on a document that will compress the packet and derive IV from the sequence number instead of sending it in separate field. The working group will specify how this compression can be negotiated in the IKEv2, and specify how the encryption algorithm and ESP format is used in this case. The Group Domain of Interpretation (GDOI - RFC 6407) is an IKEv1-based protocol for negotiating group keys for both multicast and unicast uses. The Working Group will develop an IKEv2-based alternative that will include cryptographic updates. A possible starting point is draft-yeung-g-ikev2. Postquantum Cryptography brings new key exchange methods. Most of these methods that are known to date have much larger public keys than conventional Diffie-Hellman public keys. Directly using these methods in IKEv2 might lead to a number of problems due to the increased size of initial IKEv2 messages. The working group will analyze the possible problems and develop a solution, that will make adding Postquantum key exchange methods more easy. The solution will allow post quantum key exchange to be performed in parallel with (or instead of) the existing Diffie-Hellman key exchange. A growing number of use cases for constrained networks - but not limited to those networks - have shown interest in reducing ESP (resp. IKEv2) overhead by compressing ESP (resp IKEv2) fields. The WG will define extensions of ESP and IKEv2 to enable ESP header compression. Possible starting points are draft-mglt-ipsecme-diet-esp, draft-mglt-ipsecme-ikev2-diet-esp-extension, draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-compression and draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-compact. RFC7427 allows peers to indicate hash algorithms they support, thus eliminating ambiguity in selecting a hash function for digital signature authentication. However, advances in cryptography lead to a situation when some signature algorithms have several signature formats. A prominent example is RSASSA-PKCS#1 v 1.5 and RSASSA-PSS; however it is envisioned that the same situation may repeat in future with other signature algorithms. Currently IKE peers have no explicit way to indicate to each other which signature format(s) they support. That leads to interoperability problems. The WG will investigate the situation and come up with a solution that allows peers to deal with the problem in an interoperable way. RFC7296 defines a generic notification code that is related to a failure to handle an internal address failure. That code does not explicitly allow an initiator to determine why a given address family is not assigned, nor whether it should try using another address family. The Working Group will specify a set of more specific notification codes that will provide sufficient information to the IKEv2 initiator about the encountered failure. A possible starting pointing is draft-boucadair-ipsecme-ipv6-ipv4-codes. Some systems support security labels (aka security context) as one of the selectors of the SPD. This label needs to be part of the IKE negotiation for the IPsec SA. Non-standard implementations exist for IKEv1 (formerly abusing IPSEC Security Association Attribute 10, now using private space IPSEC Security Association Attribute 32001). The work is to standarize this for IKEv2, in a way that will be backwards compatible with old implementations, meaning it must not require any changes to implementations not supporting this. Milestones: Apr 2018 - IETF Last Call on Split-DNS Configuration for IKEv2 Apr 2018 - IETF Last Call on Implicit IV in IPsec May 2018 - IETF Last Call on partially quantum resistant IKEv2 Oct 2018 - The internal address failure indication in IKEv2 to IESG Dec 2018 - The ESP on contrained network to IESG Dec 2018 - G-DOI for IKEv2 to IESG Jan 2019 - The security labels support for IKEv2 to IESG Mar 2019 - Signature algorithm negotiation for IKEv2 to IESG May 2019 - Postquantum cryptography document for IKEv2 to IESG
