A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6039 Title: Issues with Existing Cryptographic Protection Methods for Routing Protocols Author: V. Manral, M. Bhatia, J. Jaeggli, R. White Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: October 2010 Mailbox: vishwas@ipinfusion.com, manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com, joel.jaeggli@nokia.com, riw@cisco.com Pages: 21 Characters: 50788 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-opsec-routing-protocols-crypto-issues-07.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6039.txt Routing protocols have been extended over time to use cryptographic mechanisms to ensure that data received from a neighboring router has not been modified in transit and actually originated from an authorized neighboring router. The cryptographic mechanisms defined to date and described in this document rely on a digest produced with a hash algorithm applied to the payload encapsulated in the routing protocol packet. This document outlines some of the limitations of the current mechanism, problems with manual keying of these cryptographic algorithms, and possible vectors for the exploitation of these limitations. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the Operational Security Capabilities for IP Network Infrastructure Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce