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Network Working Group C. Kaufman, Ed.
Request for Comments: 4306 Microsoft
Obsoletes: 2407, 2408, 2409 December 2005
Category: Standards Track
Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2005).
Abstract
This document describes version 2 of the Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
protocol. IKE is a component of IPsec used for performing mutual
authentication and establishing and maintaining security associations
(SAs).
This version of the IKE specification combines the contents of what
were previously separate documents, including Internet Security
Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP, RFC 2408), IKE (RFC
2409), the Internet Domain of Interpretation (DOI, RFC 2407), Network
Address Translation (NAT) Traversal, Legacy authentication, and
remote address acquisition.
Version 2 of IKE does not interoperate with version 1, but it has
enough of the header format in common that both versions can
unambiguously run over the same UDP port.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................3
1.1. Usage Scenarios ............................................5
1.2. The Initial Exchanges ......................................7
1.3. The CREATE_CHILD_SA Exchange ...............................9
1.4. The INFORMATIONAL Exchange ................................11
1.5. Informational Messages outside of an IKE_SA ...............12
2. IKE Protocol Details and Variations ............................12
2.1. Use of Retransmission Timers ..............................13
2.2. Use of Sequence Numbers for Message ID ....................14
2.3. Window Size for Overlapping Requests ......................14
2.4. State Synchronization and Connection Timeouts .............15
2.5. Version Numbers and Forward Compatibility .................17
2.6. Cookies ...................................................18
2.7. Cryptographic Algorithm Negotiation .......................21
2.8. Rekeying ..................................................22
2.9. Traffic Selector Negotiation ..............................24
2.10. Nonces ...................................................26
2.11. Address and Port Agility .................................26
2.12. Reuse of Diffie-Hellman Exponentials .....................27
2.13. Generating Keying Material ...............................27
2.14. Generating Keying Material for the IKE_SA ................28
2.15. Authentication of the IKE_SA .............................29
2.16. Extensible Authentication Protocol Methods ...............31
2.17. Generating Keying Material for CHILD_SAs .................33
2.18. Rekeying IKE_SAs Using a CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange ........34
2.19. Requesting an Internal Address on a Remote Network .......34
2.20. Requesting the Peer's Version ............................35
2.21. Error Handling ...........................................36
2.22. IPComp ...................................................37
2.23. NAT Traversal ............................................38
2.24. Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) ...................40
3. Header and Payload Formats .....................................41
3.1. The IKE Header ............................................41
3.2. Generic Payload Header ....................................44
3.3. Security Association Payload ..............................46
3.4. Key Exchange Payload ......................................56
3.5. Identification Payloads ...................................56
3.6. Certificate Payload .......................................59
3.7. Certificate Request Payload ...............................61
3.8. Authentication Payload ....................................63
3.9. Nonce Payload .............................................64
3.10. Notify Payload ...........................................64
3.11. Delete Payload ...........................................72
3.12. Vendor ID Payload ........................................73
3.13. Traffic Selector Payload .................................74
3.14. Encrypted Payload ........................................77
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3.15. Configuration Payload ....................................79
3.16. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Payload .........84
4. Conformance Requirements .......................................85
5. Security Considerations ........................................88
6. IANA Considerations ............................................90
7. Acknowledgements ...............................................91
8. References .....................................................91
8.1. Normative References ......................................91
8.2. Informative References ....................................92
Appendix A: Summary of Changes from IKEv1 .........................96
Appendix B: Diffie-Hellman Groups .................................97
B.1. Group 1 - 768 Bit MODP ....................................97
B.2. Group 2 - 1024 Bit MODP ...................................97
1. Introduction
IP Security (IPsec) provides confidentiality, data integrity, access
control, and data source authentication to IP datagrams. These
services are provided by maintaining shared state between the source
and the sink of an IP datagram. This state defines, among other
things, the specific services provided to the datagram, which
cryptographic algorithms will be used to provide the services, and
the keys used as input to the cryptographic algorithms.
Establishing this shared state in a manual fashion does not scale
well. Therefore, a protocol to establish this state dynamically is
needed. This memo describes such a protocol -- the Internet Key
Exchange (IKE). This is version 2 of IKE. Version 1 of IKE was
defined in RFCs 2407, 2408, and 2409 [Pip98, MSST98, HC98]. This
single document is intended to replace all three of those RFCs.
Definitions of the primitive terms in this document (such as Security
Association or SA) can be found in [RFC4301].
Keywords "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT" and
"MAY" that appear in this document are to be interpreted as described
in [Bra97].
The term "Expert Review" is to be interpreted as defined in
[RFC2434].
IKE performs mutual authentication between two parties and
establishes an IKE security association (SA) that includes shared
secret information that can be used to efficiently establish SAs for
Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) [RFC4303] and/or Authentication
Header (AH) [RFC4302] and a set of cryptographic algorithms to be
used by the SAs to protect the traffic that they carry. In this
document, the term "suite" or "cryptographic suite" refers to a
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complete set of algorithms used to protect an SA. An initiator
proposes one or more suites by listing supported algorithms that can
be combined into suites in a mix-and-match fashion. IKE can also
negotiate use of IP Compression (IPComp) [IPCOMP] in connection with
an ESP and/or AH SA. We call the IKE SA an "IKE_SA". The SAs for
ESP and/or AH that get set up through that IKE_SA we call
"CHILD_SAs".
All IKE communications consist of pairs of messages: a request and a
response. The pair is called an "exchange". We call the first
messages establishing an IKE_SA IKE_SA_INIT and IKE_AUTH exchanges
and subsequent IKE exchanges CREATE_CHILD_SA or INFORMATIONAL
exchanges. In the common case, there is a single IKE_SA_INIT
exchange and a single IKE_AUTH exchange (a total of four messages) to
establish the IKE_SA and the first CHILD_SA. In exceptional cases,
there may be more than one of each of these exchanges. In all cases,
all IKE_SA_INIT exchanges MUST complete before any other exchange
type, then all IKE_AUTH exchanges MUST complete, and following that
any number of CREATE_CHILD_SA and INFORMATIONAL exchanges may occur
in any order. In some scenarios, only a single CHILD_SA is needed
between the IPsec endpoints, and therefore there would be no
additional exchanges. Subsequent exchanges MAY be used to establish
additional CHILD_SAs between the same authenticated pair of endpoints
and to perform housekeeping functions.
IKE message flow always consists of a request followed by a response.
It is the responsibility of the requester to ensure reliability. If
the response is not received within a timeout interval, the requester
needs to retransmit the request (or abandon the connection).
The first request/response of an IKE session (IKE_SA_INIT) negotiates
security parameters for the IKE_SA, sends nonces, and sends Diffie-
Hellman values.
The second request/response (IKE_AUTH) transmits identities, proves
knowledge of the secrets corresponding to the two identities, and
sets up an SA for the first (and often only) AH and/or ESP CHILD_SA.
The types of subsequent exchanges are CREATE_CHILD_SA (which creates
a CHILD_SA) and INFORMATIONAL (which deletes an SA, reports error
conditions, or does other housekeeping). Every request requires a
response. An INFORMATIONAL request with no payloads (other than the
empty Encrypted payload required by the syntax) is commonly used as a
check for liveness. These subsequent exchanges cannot be used until
the initial exchanges have completed.
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In the description that follows, we assume that no errors occur.
Modifications to the flow should errors occur are described in
section 2.21.
1.1. Usage Scenarios
IKE is expected to be used to negotiate ESP and/or AH SAs in a number
of different scenarios, each with its own special requirements.
1.1.1. Security Gateway to Security Gateway Tunnel
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
! ! IPsec ! !
Protected !Tunnel ! tunnel !Tunnel ! Protected
Subnet <-->!Endpoint !<---------->!Endpoint !<--> Subnet
! ! ! !
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Security Gateway to Security Gateway Tunnel
In this scenario, neither endpoint of the IP connection implements
IPsec, but network nodes between them protect traffic for part of the
way. Protection is transparent to the endpoints, and depends on
ordinary routing to send packets through the tunnel endpoints for
processing. Each endpoint would announce the set of addresses
"behind" it, and packets would be sent in tunnel mode where the inner
IP header would contain the IP addresses of the actual endpoints.
1.1.2. Endpoint-to-Endpoint Transport
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
! ! IPsec transport ! !
!Protected! or tunnel mode SA !Protected!
!Endpoint !<---------------------------------------->!Endpoint !
! ! ! !
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: Endpoint to Endpoint
In this scenario, both endpoints of the IP connection implement
IPsec, as required of hosts in [RFC4301]. Transport mode will
commonly be used with no inner IP header. If there is an inner IP
header, the inner addresses will be the same as the outer addresses.
A single pair of addresses will be negotiated for packets to be
protected by this SA. These endpoints MAY implement application
layer access controls based on the IPsec authenticated identities of
the participants. This scenario enables the end-to-end security that
has been a guiding principle for the Internet since [RFC1958],
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[RFC2775], and a method of limiting the inherent problems with
complexity in networks noted by [RFC3439]. Although this scenario
may not be fully applicable to the IPv4 Internet, it has been
deployed successfully in specific scenarios within intranets using
IKEv1. It should be more broadly enabled during the transition to
IPv6 and with the adoption of IKEv2.
It is possible in this scenario that one or both of the protected
endpoints will be behind a network address translation (NAT) node, in
which case the tunneled packets will have to be UDP encapsulated so
that port numbers in the UDP headers can be used to identify
individual endpoints "behind" the NAT (see section 2.23).
1.1.3. Endpoint to Security Gateway Tunnel
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
! ! IPsec ! ! Protected
!Protected! tunnel !Tunnel ! Subnet
!Endpoint !<------------------------>!Endpoint !<--- and/or
! ! ! ! Internet
+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 3: Endpoint to Security Gateway Tunnel
In this scenario, a protected endpoint (typically a portable roaming
computer) connects back to its corporate network through an IPsec-
protected tunnel. It might use this tunnel only to access
information on the corporate network, or it might tunnel all of its
traffic back through the corporate network in order to take advantage
of protection provided by a corporate firewall against Internet-based
attacks. In either case, the protected endpoint will want an IP
address associated with the security gateway so that packets returned
to it will go to the security gateway and be tunneled back. This IP
address may be static or may be dynamically allocated by the security
gateway. In support of the latter case, IKEv2 includes a mechanism
for the initiator to request an IP address owned by the security
gateway for use for the duration of its SA.
In this scenario, packets will use tunnel mode. On each packet from
the protected endpoint, the outer IP header will contain the source
IP address associated with its current location (i.e., the address
that will get traffic routed to the endpoint directly), while the
inner IP header will contain the source IP address assigned by the
security gateway (i.e., the address that will get traffic routed to
the security gateway for forwarding to the endpoint). The outer
destination address will always be that of the security gateway,
while the inner destination address will be the ultimate destination
for the packet.
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In this scenario, it is possible that the protected endpoint will be
behind a NAT. In that case, the IP address as seen by the security
gateway will not be the same as the IP address sent by the protected
endpoint, and packets will have to be UDP encapsulated in order to be
routed properly.
1.1.4. Other Scenarios
Other scenarios are possible, as are nested combinations of the
above. One notable example combines aspects of 1.1.1 and 1.1.3. A
subnet may make all external accesses through a remote security
gateway using an IPsec tunnel, where the addresses on the subnet are
routed to the security gateway by the rest of the Internet. An
example would be someone's home network being virtually on the
Internet with static IP addresses even though connectivity is
provided by an ISP that assigns a single dynamically assigned IP
address to the user's security gateway (where the static IP addresses
and an IPsec relay are provided by a third party located elsewhere).
1.2. The Initial Exchanges
Communication using IKE always begins with IKE_SA_INIT and IKE_AUTH
exchanges (known in IKEv1 as Phase 1). These initial exchanges
normally consist of four messages, though in some scenarios that
number can grow. All communications using IKE consist of
request/response pairs. We'll describe the base exchange first,
followed by variations. The first pair of messages (IKE_SA_INIT)
negotiate cryptographic algorithms, exchange nonces, and do a
Diffie-Hellman exchange [DH].
The second pair of messages (IKE_AUTH) authenticate the previous
messages, exchange identities and certificates, and establish the
first CHILD_SA. Parts of these messages are encrypted and integrity
protected with keys established through the IKE_SA_INIT exchange, so
the identities are hidden from eavesdroppers and all fields in all
the messages are authenticated.
In the following descriptions, the payloads contained in the message
are indicated by names as listed below.
Notation Payload
AUTH Authentication
CERT Certificate
CERTREQ Certificate Request
CP Configuration
D Delete
E Encrypted
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EAP Extensible Authentication
HDR IKE Header
IDi Identification - Initiator
IDr Identification - Responder
KE Key Exchange
Ni, Nr Nonce
N Notify
SA Security Association
TSi Traffic Selector - Initiator
TSr Traffic Selector - Responder
V Vendor ID
The details of the contents of each payload are described in section
3. Payloads that may optionally appear will be shown in brackets,
such as [CERTREQ], indicate that optionally a certificate request
payload can be included.
The initial exchanges are as follows:
Initiator Responder
----------- -----------
HDR, SAi1, KEi, Ni -->
HDR contains the Security Parameter Indexes (SPIs), version numbers,
and flags of various sorts. The SAi1 payload states the
cryptographic algorithms the initiator supports for the IKE_SA. The
KE payload sends the initiator's Diffie-Hellman value. Ni is the
initiator's nonce.
<-- HDR, SAr1, KEr, Nr, [CERTREQ]
The responder chooses a cryptographic suite from the initiator's
offered choices and expresses that choice in the SAr1 payload,
completes the Diffie-Hellman exchange with the KEr payload, and sends
its nonce in the Nr payload.
At this point in the negotiation, each party can generate SKEYSEED,
from which all keys are derived for that IKE_SA. All but the headers
of all the messages that follow are encrypted and integrity
protected. The keys used for the encryption and integrity protection
are derived from SKEYSEED and are known as SK_e (encryption) and SK_a
(authentication, a.k.a. integrity protection). A separate SK_e and
SK_a is computed for each direction. In addition to the keys SK_e
and SK_a derived from the DH value for protection of the IKE_SA,
another quantity SK_d is derived and used for derivation of further
keying material for CHILD_SAs. The notation SK { ... } indicates
that these payloads are encrypted and integrity protected using that
direction's SK_e and SK_a.
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HDR, SK {IDi, [CERT,] [CERTREQ,] [IDr,]
AUTH, SAi2, TSi, TSr} -->
The initiator asserts its identity with the IDi payload, proves
knowledge of the secret corresponding to IDi and integrity protects
the contents of the first message using the AUTH payload (see section
2.15). It might also send its certificate(s) in CERT payload(s) and
a list of its trust anchors in CERTREQ payload(s). If any CERT
payloads are included, the first certificate provided MUST contain
the public key used to verify the AUTH field. The optional payload
IDr enables the initiator to specify which of the responder's
identities it wants to talk to. This is useful when the machine on
which the responder is running is hosting multiple identities at the
same IP address. The initiator begins negotiation of a CHILD_SA
using the SAi2 payload. The final fields (starting with SAi2) are
described in the description of the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange.
<-- HDR, SK {IDr, [CERT,] AUTH,
SAr2, TSi, TSr}
The responder asserts its identity with the IDr payload, optionally
sends one or more certificates (again with the certificate containing
the public key used to verify AUTH listed first), authenticates its
identity and protects the integrity of the second message with the
AUTH payload, and completes negotiation of a CHILD_SA with the
additional fields described below in the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange.
The recipients of messages 3 and 4 MUST verify that all signatures
and MACs are computed correctly and that the names in the ID payloads
correspond to the keys used to generate the AUTH payload.
1.3. The CREATE_CHILD_SA Exchange
This exchange consists of a single request/response pair, and was
referred to as a phase 2 exchange in IKEv1. It MAY be initiated by
either end of the IKE_SA after the initial exchanges are completed.
All messages following the initial exchange are cryptographically
protected using the cryptographic algorithms and keys negotiated in
the first two messages of the IKE exchange. These subsequent
messages use the syntax of the Encrypted Payload described in section
3.14. All subsequent messages included an Encrypted Payload, even if
they are referred to in the text as "empty".
Either endpoint may initiate a CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange, so in this
section the term "initiator" refers to the endpoint initiating this
exchange.
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A CHILD_SA is created by sending a CREATE_CHILD_SA request. The
CREATE_CHILD_SA request MAY optionally contain a KE payload for an
additional Diffie-Hellman exchange to enable stronger guarantees of
forward secrecy for the CHILD_SA. The keying material for the
CHILD_SA is a function of SK_d established during the establishment
of the IKE_SA, the nonces exchanged during the CREATE_CHILD_SA
exchange, and the Diffie-Hellman value (if KE payloads are included
in the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange).
In the CHILD_SA created as part of the initial exchange, a second KE
payload and nonce MUST NOT be sent. The nonces from the initial
exchange are used in computing the keys for the CHILD_SA.
The CREATE_CHILD_SA request contains:
Initiator Responder
----------- -----------
HDR, SK {[N], SA, Ni, [KEi],
[TSi, TSr]} -->
The initiator sends SA offer(s) in the SA payload, a nonce in the Ni
payload, optionally a Diffie-Hellman value in the KEi payload, and
the proposed traffic selectors in the TSi and TSr payloads. If this
CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange is rekeying an existing SA other than the
IKE_SA, the leading N payload of type REKEY_SA MUST identify the SA
being rekeyed. If this CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange is not rekeying an
existing SA, the N payload MUST be omitted. If the SA offers include
different Diffie-Hellman groups, KEi MUST be an element of the group
the initiator expects the responder to accept. If it guesses wrong,
the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange will fail, and it will have to retry
with a different KEi.
The message following the header is encrypted and the message
including the header is integrity protected using the cryptographic
algorithms negotiated for the IKE_SA.
The CREATE_CHILD_SA response contains:
<-- HDR, SK {SA, Nr, [KEr],
[TSi, TSr]}
The responder replies (using the same Message ID to respond) with the
accepted offer in an SA payload, and a Diffie-Hellman value in the
KEr payload if KEi was included in the request and the selected
cryptographic suite includes that group. If the responder chooses a
cryptographic suite with a different group, it MUST reject the
request. The initiator SHOULD repeat the request, but now with a KEi
payload from the group the responder selected.
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The traffic selectors for traffic to be sent on that SA are specified
in the TS payloads, which may be a subset of what the initiator of
the CHILD_SA proposed. Traffic selectors are omitted if this
CREATE_CHILD_SA request is being used to change the key of the
IKE_SA.
1.4. The INFORMATIONAL Exchange
At various points during the operation of an IKE_SA, peers may desire
to convey control messages to each other regarding errors or
notifications of certain events. To accomplish this, IKE defines an
INFORMATIONAL exchange. INFORMATIONAL exchanges MUST ONLY occur
after the initial exchanges and are cryptographically protected with
the negotiated keys.
Control messages that pertain to an IKE_SA MUST be sent under that
IKE_SA. Control messages that pertain to CHILD_SAs MUST be sent
under the protection of the IKE_SA which generated them (or its
successor if the IKE_SA was replaced for the purpose of rekeying).
Messages in an INFORMATIONAL exchange contain zero or more
Notification, Delete, and Configuration payloads. The Recipient of
an INFORMATIONAL exchange request MUST send some response (else the
Sender will assume the message was lost in the network and will
retransmit it). That response MAY be a message with no payloads.
The request message in an INFORMATIONAL exchange MAY also contain no
payloads. This is the expected way an endpoint can ask the other
endpoint to verify that it is alive.
ESP and AH SAs always exist in pairs, with one SA in each direction.
When an SA is closed, both members of the pair MUST be closed. When
SAs are nested, as when data (and IP headers if in tunnel mode) are
encapsulated first with IPComp, then with ESP, and finally with AH
between the same pair of endpoints, all of the SAs MUST be deleted
together. Each endpoint MUST close its incoming SAs and allow the
other endpoint to close the other SA in each pair. To delete an SA,
an INFORMATIONAL exchange with one or more delete payloads is sent
listing the SPIs (as they would be expected in the headers of inbound
packets) of the SAs to be deleted. The recipient MUST close the
designated SAs. Normally, the reply in the INFORMATIONAL exchange
will contain delete payloads for the paired SAs going in the other
direction. There is one exception. If by chance both ends of a set
of SAs independently decide to close them, each may send a delete
payload and the two requests may cross in the network. If a node
receives a delete request for SAs for which it has already issued a
delete request, it MUST delete the outgoing SAs while processing the
request and the incoming SAs while processing the response. In that
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case, the responses MUST NOT include delete payloads for the deleted
SAs, since that would result in duplicate deletion and could in
theory delete the wrong SA.
A node SHOULD regard half-closed connections as anomalous and audit
their existence should they persist. Note that this specification
nowhere specifies time periods, so it is up to individual endpoints
to decide how long to wait. A node MAY refuse to accept incoming
data on half-closed connections but MUST NOT unilaterally close them
and reuse the SPIs. If connection state becomes sufficiently messed
up, a node MAY close the IKE_SA; doing so will implicitly close all
SAs negotiated under it. It can then rebuild the SAs it needs on a
clean base under a new IKE_SA.
The INFORMATIONAL exchange is defined as:
Initiator Responder
----------- -----------
HDR, SK {[N,] [D,] [CP,] ...} -->
<-- HDR, SK {[N,] [D,] [CP], ...}
The processing of an INFORMATIONAL exchange is determined by its
component payloads.
1.5. Informational Messages outside of an IKE_SA
If an encrypted IKE packet arrives on port 500 or 4500 with an
unrecognized SPI, it could be because the receiving node has recently
crashed and lost state or because of some other system malfunction or
attack. If the receiving node has an active IKE_SA to the IP address
from whence the packet came, it MAY send a notification of the
wayward packet over that IKE_SA in an INFORMATIONAL exchange. If it
does not have such an IKE_SA, it MAY send an Informational message
without cryptographic protection to the source IP address. Such a
message is not part of an informational exchange, and the receiving
node MUST NOT respond to it. Doing so could cause a message loop.
2. IKE Protocol Details and Variations
IKE normally listens and sends on UDP port 500, though IKE messages
may also be received on UDP port 4500 with a slightly different
format (see section 2.23). Since UDP is a datagram (unreliable)
protocol, IKE includes in its definition recovery from transmission
errors, including packet loss, packet replay, and packet forgery.
IKE is designed to function so long as (1) at least one of a series
of retransmitted packets reaches its destination before timing out;
and (2) the channel is not so full of forged and replayed packets so
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as to exhaust the network or CPU capacities of either endpoint. Even
in the absence of those minimum performance requirements, IKE is
designed to fail cleanly (as though the network were broken).
Although IKEv2 messages are intended to be short, they contain
structures with no hard upper bound on size (in particular, X.509
certificates), and IKEv2 itself does not have a mechanism for
fragmenting large messages. IP defines a mechanism for fragmentation
of oversize UDP messages, but implementations vary in the maximum
message size supported. Furthermore, use of IP fragmentation opens
an implementation to denial of service attacks [KPS03]. Finally,
some NAT and/or firewall implementations may block IP fragments.
All IKEv2 implementations MUST be able to send, receive, and process
IKE messages that are up to 1280 bytes long, and they SHOULD be able
to send, receive, and process messages that are up to 3000 bytes
long. IKEv2 implementations SHOULD be aware of the maximum UDP
message size supported and MAY shorten messages by leaving out some
certificates or cryptographic suite proposals if that will keep
messages below the maximum. Use of the "Hash and URL" formats rather
than including certificates in exchanges where possible can avoid
most problems. Implementations and configuration should keep in
mind, however, that if the URL lookups are possible only after the
IPsec SA is established, recursion issues could prevent this
technique from working.
2.1. Use of Retransmission Timers
All messages in IKE exist in pairs: a request and a response. The
setup of an IKE_SA normally consists of two request/response pairs.
Once the IKE_SA is set up, either end of the security association may
initiate requests at any time, and there can be many requests and
responses "in flight" at any given moment. But each message is
labeled as either a request or a response, and for each
request/response pair one end of the security association is the
initiator and the other is the responder.
For every pair of IKE messages, the initiator is responsible for
retransmission in the event of a timeout. The responder MUST never
retransmit a response unless it receives a retransmission of the
request. In that event, the responder MUST ignore the retransmitted
request except insofar as it triggers a retransmission of the
response. The initiator MUST remember each request until it receives
the corresponding response. The responder MUST remember each
response until it receives a request whose sequence number is larger
than the sequence number in the response plus its window size (see
section 2.3).
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IKE is a reliable protocol, in the sense that the initiator MUST
retransmit a request until either it receives a corresponding reply
OR it deems the IKE security association to have failed and it
discards all state associated with the IKE_SA and any CHILD_SAs
negotiated using that IKE_SA.
2.2. Use of Sequence Numbers for Message ID
Every IKE message contains a Message ID as part of its fixed header.
This Message ID is used to match up requests and responses, and to
identify retransmissions of messages.
The Message ID is a 32-bit quantity, which is zero for the first IKE
request in each direction. The IKE_SA initial setup messages will
always be numbered 0 and 1. Each endpoint in the IKE Security
Association maintains two "current" Message IDs: the next one to be
used for a request it initiates and the next one it expects to see in
a request from the other end. These counters increment as requests
are generated and received. Responses always contain the same
message ID as the corresponding request. That means that after the
initial exchange, each integer n may appear as the message ID in four
distinct messages: the nth request from the original IKE initiator,
the corresponding response, the nth request from the original IKE
responder, and the corresponding response. If the two ends make very
different numbers of requests, the Message IDs in the two directions
can be very different. There is no ambiguity in the messages,
however, because the (I)nitiator and (R)esponse bits in the message
header specify which of the four messages a particular one is.
Note that Message IDs are cryptographically protected and provide
protection against message replays. In the unlikely event that
Message IDs grow too large to fit in 32 bits, the IKE_SA MUST be
closed. Rekeying an IKE_SA resets the sequence numbers.
2.3. Window Size for Overlapping Requests
In order to maximize IKE throughput, an IKE endpoint MAY issue
multiple requests before getting a response to any of them if the
other endpoint has indicated its ability to handle such requests.
For simplicity, an IKE implementation MAY choose to process requests
strictly in order and/or wait for a response to one request before
issuing another. Certain rules must be followed to ensure
interoperability between implementations using different strategies.
After an IKE_SA is set up, either end can initiate one or more
requests. These requests may pass one another over the network. An
IKE endpoint MUST be prepared to accept and process a request while
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it has a request outstanding in order to avoid a deadlock in this
situation. An IKE endpoint SHOULD be prepared to accept and process
multiple requests while it has a request outstanding.
An IKE endpoint MUST wait for a response to each of its messages
before sending a subsequent message unless it has received a
SET_WINDOW_SIZE Notify message from its peer informing it that the
peer is prepared to maintain state for multiple outstanding messages
in order to allow greater throughput.
An IKE endpoint MUST NOT exceed the peer's stated window size for
transmitted IKE requests. In other words, if the responder stated
its window size is N, then when the initiator needs to make a request
X, it MUST wait until it has received responses to all requests up
through request X-N. An IKE endpoint MUST keep a copy of (or be able
to regenerate exactly) each request it has sent until it receives the
corresponding response. An IKE endpoint MUST keep a copy of (or be
able to regenerate exactly) the number of previous responses equal to
its declared window size in case its response was lost and the
initiator requests its retransmission by retransmitting the request.
An IKE endpoint supporting a window size greater than one SHOULD be
capable of processing incoming requests out of order to maximize
performance in the event of network failures or packet reordering.
2.4. State Synchronization and Connection Timeouts
An IKE endpoint is allowed to forget all of its state associated with
an IKE_SA and the collection of corresponding CHILD_SAs at any time.
This is the anticipated behavior in the event of an endpoint crash
and restart. It is important when an endpoint either fails or
reinitializes its state that the other endpoint detect those
conditions and not continue to waste network bandwidth by sending
packets over discarded SAs and having them fall into a black hole.
Since IKE is designed to operate in spite of Denial of Service (DoS)
attacks from the network, an endpoint MUST NOT conclude that the
other endpoint has failed based on any routing information (e.g.,
ICMP messages) or IKE messages that arrive without cryptographic
protection (e.g., Notify messages complaining about unknown SPIs).
An endpoint MUST conclude that the other endpoint has failed only
when repeated attempts to contact it have gone unanswered for a
timeout period or when a cryptographically protected INITIAL_CONTACT
notification is received on a different IKE_SA to the same
authenticated identity. An endpoint SHOULD suspect that the other
endpoint has failed based on routing information and initiate a
request to see whether the other endpoint is alive. To check whether
the other side is alive, IKE specifies an empty INFORMATIONAL message
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that (like all IKE requests) requires an acknowledgement (note that
within the context of an IKE_SA, an "empty" message consists of an
IKE header followed by an Encrypted payload that contains no
payloads). If a cryptographically protected message has been
received from the other side recently, unprotected notifications MAY
be ignored. Implementations MUST limit the rate at which they take
actions based on unprotected messages.
Numbers of retries and lengths of timeouts are not covered in this
specification because they do not affect interoperability. It is
suggested that messages be retransmitted at least a dozen times over
a period of at least several minutes before giving up on an SA, but
different environments may require different rules. To be a good
network citizen, retranmission times MUST increase exponentially to
avoid flooding the network and making an existing congestion
situation worse. If there has only been outgoing traffic on all of
the SAs associated with an IKE_SA, it is essential to confirm
liveness of the other endpoint to avoid black holes. If no
cryptographically protected messages have been received on an IKE_SA
or any of its CHILD_SAs recently, the system needs to perform a
liveness check in order to prevent sending messages to a dead peer.
Receipt of a fresh cryptographically protected message on an IKE_SA
or any of its CHILD_SAs ensures liveness of the IKE_SA and all of its
CHILD_SAs. Note that this places requirements on the failure modes
of an IKE endpoint. An implementation MUST NOT continue sending on
any SA if some failure prevents it from receiving on all of the
associated SAs. If CHILD_SAs can fail independently from one another
without the associated IKE_SA being able to send a delete message,
then they MUST be negotiated by separate IKE_SAs.
There is a Denial of Service attack on the initiator of an IKE_SA
that can be avoided if the initiator takes the proper care. Since
the first two messages of an SA setup are not cryptographically
protected, an attacker could respond to the initiator's message
before the genuine responder and poison the connection setup attempt.
To prevent this, the initiator MAY be willing to accept multiple
responses to its first message, treat each as potentially legitimate,
respond to it, and then discard all the invalid half-open connections
when it receives a valid cryptographically protected response to any
one of its requests. Once a cryptographically valid response is
received, all subsequent responses should be ignored whether or not
they are cryptographically valid.
Note that with these rules, there is no reason to negotiate and agree
upon an SA lifetime. If IKE presumes the partner is dead, based on
repeated lack of acknowledgement to an IKE message, then the IKE SA
and all CHILD_SAs set up through that IKE_SA are deleted.
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An IKE endpoint may at any time delete inactive CHILD_SAs to recover
resources used to hold their state. If an IKE endpoint chooses to
delete CHILD_SAs, it MUST send Delete payloads to the other end
notifying it of the deletion. It MAY similarly time out the IKE_SA.
Closing the IKE_SA implicitly closes all associated CHILD_SAs. In
this case, an IKE endpoint SHOULD send a Delete payload indicating
that it has closed the IKE_SA.
2.5. Version Numbers and Forward Compatibility
This document describes version 2.0 of IKE, meaning the major version
number is 2 and the minor version number is zero. It is likely that
some implementations will want to support both version 1.0 and
version 2.0, and in the future, other versions.
The major version number should be incremented only if the packet
formats or required actions have changed so dramatically that an
older version node would not be able to interoperate with a newer
version node if it simply ignored the fields it did not understand
and took the actions specified in the older specification. The minor
version number indicates new capabilities, and MUST be ignored by a
node with a smaller minor version number, but used for informational
purposes by the node with the larger minor version number. For
example, it might indicate the ability to process a newly defined
notification message. The node with the larger minor version number
would simply note that its correspondent would not be able to
understand that message and therefore would not send it.
If an endpoint receives a message with a higher major version number,
it MUST drop the message and SHOULD send an unauthenticated
notification message containing the highest version number it
supports. If an endpoint supports major version n, and major version
m, it MUST support all versions between n and m. If it receives a
message with a major version that it supports, it MUST respond with
that version number. In order to prevent two nodes from being
tricked into corresponding with a lower major version number than the
maximum that they both support, IKE has a flag that indicates that
the node is capable of speaking a higher major version number.
Thus, the major version number in the IKE header indicates the
version number of the message, not the highest version number that
the transmitter supports. If the initiator is capable of speaking
versions n, n+1, and n+2, and the responder is capable of speaking
versions n and n+1, then they will negotiate speaking n+1, where the
initiator will set the flag indicating its ability to speak a higher
version. If they mistakenly (perhaps through an active attacker
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sending error messages) negotiate to version n, then both will notice
that the other side can support a higher version number, and they
MUST break the connection and reconnect using version n+1.
Note that IKEv1 does not follow these rules, because there is no way
in v1 of noting that you are capable of speaking a higher version
number. So an active attacker can trick two v2-capable nodes into
speaking v1. When a v2-capable node negotiates down to v1, it SHOULD
note that fact in its logs.
Also for forward compatibility, all fields marked RESERVED MUST be
set to zero by a version 2.0 implementation and their content MUST be
ignored by a version 2.0 implementation ("Be conservative in what you
send and liberal in what you receive"). In this way, future versions
of the protocol can use those fields in a way that is guaranteed to
be ignored by implementations that do not understand them.
Similarly, payload types that are not defined are reserved for future
use; implementations of version 2.0 MUST skip over those payloads and
ignore their contents.
IKEv2 adds a "critical" flag to each payload header for further
flexibility for forward compatibility. If the critical flag is set
and the payload type is unrecognized, the message MUST be rejected
and the response to the IKE request containing that payload MUST
include a Notify payload UNSUPPORTED_CRITICAL_PAYLOAD, indicating an
unsupported critical payload was included. If the critical flag is
not set and the payload type is unsupported, that payload MUST be
ignored.
Although new payload types may be added in the future and may appear
interleaved with the fields defined in this specification,
implementations MUST send the payloads defined in this specification
in the order shown in the figures in section 2 and implementations
SHOULD reject as invalid a message with those payloads in any other
order.
2.6. Cookies
The term "cookies" originates with Karn and Simpson [RFC2522] in
Photuris, an early proposal for key management with IPsec, and it has
persisted. The Internet Security Association and Key Management
Protocol (ISAKMP) [MSST98] fixed message header includes two eight-
octet fields titled "cookies", and that syntax is used by both IKEv1
and IKEv2 though in IKEv2 they are referred to as the IKE SPI and
there is a new separate field in a Notify payload holding the cookie.
The initial two eight-octet fields in the header are used as a
connection identifier at the beginning of IKE packets. Each endpoint
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chooses one of the two SPIs and SHOULD choose them so as to be unique
identifiers of an IKE_SA. An SPI value of zero is special and
indicates that the remote SPI value is not yet known by the sender.
Unlike ESP and AH where only the recipient's SPI appears in the
header of a message, in IKE the sender's SPI is also sent in every
message. Since the SPI chosen by the original initiator of the
IKE_SA is always sent first, an endpoint with multiple IKE_SAs open
that wants to find the appropriate IKE_SA using the SPI it assigned
must look at the I(nitiator) Flag bit in the header to determine
whether it assigned the first or the second eight octets.
In the first message of an initial IKE exchange, the initiator will
not know the responder's SPI value and will therefore set that field
to zero.
An expected attack against IKE is state and CPU exhaustion, where the
target is flooded with session initiation requests from forged IP
addresses. This attack can be made less effective if an
implementation of a responder uses minimal CPU and commits no state
to an SA until it knows the initiator can receive packets at the
address from which it claims to be sending them. To accomplish this,
a responder SHOULD -- when it detects a large number of half-open
IKE_SAs -- reject initial IKE messages unless they contain a Notify
payload of type COOKIE. It SHOULD instead send an unprotected IKE
message as a response and include COOKIE Notify payload with the
cookie data to be returned. Initiators who receive such responses
MUST retry the IKE_SA_INIT with a Notify payload of type COOKIE
containing the responder supplied cookie data as the first payload
and all other payloads unchanged. The initial exchange will then be
as follows:
Initiator Responder
----------- -----------
HDR(A,0), SAi1, KEi, Ni -->
<-- HDR(A,0), N(COOKIE)
HDR(A,0), N(COOKIE), SAi1, KEi, Ni -->
<-- HDR(A,B), SAr1, KEr, Nr, [CERTREQ]
HDR(A,B), SK {IDi, [CERT,] [CERTREQ,] [IDr,]
AUTH, SAi2, TSi, TSr} -->
<-- HDR(A,B), SK {IDr, [CERT,] AUTH,
SAr2, TSi, TSr}
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The first two messages do not affect any initiator or responder state
except for communicating the cookie. In particular, the message
sequence numbers in the first four messages will all be zero and the
message sequence numbers in the last two messages will be one. 'A' is
the SPI assigned by the initiator, while 'B' is the SPI assigned by
the responder.
An IKE implementation SHOULD implement its responder cookie
generation in such a way as to not require any saved state to
recognize its valid cookie when the second IKE_SA_INIT message
arrives. The exact algorithms and syntax they use to generate
cookies do not affect interoperability and hence are not specified
here. The following is an example of how an endpoint could use
cookies to implement limited DOS protection.
A good way to do this is to set the responder cookie to be:
Cookie = <VersionIDofSecret> | Hash(Ni | IPi | SPIi | <secret>)
where <secret> is a randomly generated secret known only to the
responder and periodically changed and | indicates concatenation.
<VersionIDofSecret> should be changed whenever <secret> is
regenerated. The cookie can be recomputed when the IKE_SA_INIT
arrives the second time and compared to the cookie in the received
message. If it matches, the responder knows that the cookie was
generated since the last change to <secret> and that IPi must be the
same as the source address it saw the first time. Incorporating SPIi
into the calculation ensures that if multiple IKE_SAs are being set
up in parallel they will all get different cookies (assuming the
initiator chooses unique SPIi's). Incorporating Ni into the hash
ensures that an attacker who sees only message 2 can't successfully
forge a message 3.
If a new value for <secret> is chosen while there are connections in
the process of being initialized, an IKE_SA_INIT might be returned
with other than the current <VersionIDofSecret>. The responder in
that case MAY reject the message by sending another response with a
new cookie or it MAY keep the old value of <secret> around for a
short time and accept cookies computed from either one. The
responder SHOULD NOT accept cookies indefinitely after <secret> is
changed, since that would defeat part of the denial of service
protection. The responder SHOULD change the value of <secret>
frequently, especially if under attack.
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2.7. Cryptographic Algorithm Negotiation
The payload type known as "SA" indicates a proposal for a set of
choices of IPsec protocols (IKE, ESP, and/or AH) for the SA as well
as cryptographic algorithms associated with each protocol.
An SA payload consists of one or more proposals. Each proposal
includes one or more protocols (usually one). Each protocol contains
one or more transforms -- each specifying a cryptographic algorithm.
Each transform contains zero or more attributes (attributes are
needed only if the transform identifier does not completely specify
the cryptographic algorithm).
This hierarchical structure was designed to efficiently encode
proposals for cryptographic suites when the number of supported
suites is large because multiple values are acceptable for multiple
transforms. The responder MUST choose a single suite, which MAY be
any subset of the SA proposal following the rules below:
Each proposal contains one or more protocols. If a proposal is
accepted, the SA response MUST contain the same protocols in the
same order as the proposal. The responder MUST accept a single
proposal or reject them all and return an error. (Example: if a
single proposal contains ESP and AH and that proposal is accepted,
both ESP and AH MUST be accepted. If ESP and AH are included in
separate proposals, the responder MUST accept only one of them).
Each IPsec protocol proposal contains one or more transforms.
Each transform contains a transform type. The accepted
cryptographic suite MUST contain exactly one transform of each
type included in the proposal. For example: if an ESP proposal
includes transforms ENCR_3DES, ENCR_AES w/keysize 128, ENCR_AES
w/keysize 256, AUTH_HMAC_MD5, and AUTH_HMAC_SHA, the accepted
suite MUST contain one of the ENCR_ transforms and one of the
AUTH_ transforms. Thus, six combinations are acceptable.
Since the initiator sends its Diffie-Hellman value in the
IKE_SA_INIT, it must guess the Diffie-Hellman group that the
responder will select from its list of supported groups. If the
initiator guesses wrong, the responder will respond with a Notify
payload of type INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD indicating the selected group. In
this case, the initiator MUST retry the IKE_SA_INIT with the
corrected Diffie-Hellman group. The initiator MUST again propose its
full set of acceptable cryptographic suites because the rejection
message was unauthenticated and otherwise an active attacker could
trick the endpoints into negotiating a weaker suite than a stronger
one that they both prefer.
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2.8. Rekeying
IKE, ESP, and AH security associations use secret keys that SHOULD be
used only for a limited amount of time and to protect a limited
amount of data. This limits the lifetime of the entire security
association. When the lifetime of a security association expires,
the security association MUST NOT be used. If there is demand, new
security associations MAY be established. Reestablishment of
security associations to take the place of ones that expire is
referred to as "rekeying".
To allow for minimal IPsec implementations, the ability to rekey SAs
without restarting the entire IKE_SA is optional. An implementation
MAY refuse all CREATE_CHILD_SA requests within an IKE_SA. If an SA
has expired or is about to expire and rekeying attempts using the
mechanisms described here fail, an implementation MUST close the
IKE_SA and any associated CHILD_SAs and then MAY start new ones.
Implementations SHOULD support in-place rekeying of SAs, since doing
so offers better performance and is likely to reduce the number of
packets lost during the transition.
To rekey a CHILD_SA within an existing IKE_SA, create a new,
equivalent SA (see section 2.17 below), and when the new one is
established, delete the old one. To rekey an IKE_SA, establish a new
equivalent IKE_SA (see section 2.18 below) with the peer to whom the
old IKE_SA is shared using a CREATE_CHILD_SA within the existing
IKE_SA. An IKE_SA so created inherits all of the original IKE_SA's
CHILD_SAs. Use the new IKE_SA for all control messages needed to
maintain the CHILD_SAs created by the old IKE_SA, and delete the old
IKE_SA. The Delete payload to delete itself MUST be the last request
sent over an IKE_SA.
SAs SHOULD be rekeyed proactively, i.e., the new SA should be
established before the old one expires and becomes unusable. Enough
time should elapse between the time the new SA is established and the
old one becomes unusable so that traffic can be switched over to the
new SA.
A difference between IKEv1 and IKEv2 is that in IKEv1 SA lifetimes
were negotiated. In IKEv2, each end of the SA is responsible for
enforcing its own lifetime policy on the SA and rekeying the SA when
necessary. If the two ends have different lifetime policies, the end
with the shorter lifetime will end up always being the one to request
the rekeying. If an SA bundle has been inactive for a long time and
if an endpoint would not initiate the SA in the absence of traffic,
the endpoint MAY choose to close the SA instead of rekeying it when
its lifetime expires. It SHOULD do so if there has been no traffic
since the last time the SA was rekeyed.
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If the two ends have the same lifetime policies, it is possible that
both will initiate a rekeying at the same time (which will result in
redundant SAs). To reduce the probability of this happening, the
timing of rekeying requests SHOULD be jittered (delayed by a random
amount of time after the need for rekeying is noticed).
This form of rekeying may temporarily result in multiple similar SAs
between the same pairs of nodes. When there are two SAs eligible to
receive packets, a node MUST accept incoming packets through either
SA. If redundant SAs are created though such a collision, the SA
created with the lowest of the four nonces used in the two exchanges
SHOULD be closed by the endpoint that created it.
Note that IKEv2 deliberately allows parallel SAs with the same
traffic selectors between common endpoints. One of the purposes of
this is to support traffic quality of service (QoS) differences among
the SAs (see [RFC2474], [RFC2475], and section 4.1 of [RFC2983]).
Hence unlike IKEv1, the combination of the endpoints and the traffic
selectors may not uniquely identify an SA between those endpoints, so
the IKEv1 rekeying heuristic of deleting SAs on the basis of
duplicate traffic selectors SHOULD NOT be used.
The node that initiated the surviving rekeyed SA SHOULD delete the
replaced SA after the new one is established.
There are timing windows -- particularly in the presence of lost
packets -- where endpoints may not agree on the state of an SA. The
responder to a CREATE_CHILD_SA MUST be prepared to accept messages on
an SA before sending its response to the creation request, so there
is no ambiguity for the initiator. The initiator MAY begin sending
on an SA as soon as it processes the response. The initiator,
however, cannot receive on a newly created SA until it receives and
processes the response to its CREATE_CHILD_SA request. How, then, is
the responder to know when it is OK to send on the newly created SA?
From a technical correctness and interoperability perspective, the
responder MAY begin sending on an SA as soon as it sends its response
to the CREATE_CHILD_SA request. In some situations, however, this
could result in packets unnecessarily being dropped, so an
implementation MAY want to defer such sending.
The responder can be assured that the initiator is prepared to
receive messages on an SA if either (1) it has received a
cryptographically valid message on the new SA, or (2) the new SA
rekeys an existing SA and it receives an IKE request to close the
replaced SA. When rekeying an SA, the responder SHOULD continue to
send messages on the old SA until one of those events occurs. When
establishing a new SA, the responder MAY defer sending messages on a
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new SA until either it receives one or a timeout has occurred. If an
initiator receives a message on an SA for which it has not received a
response to its CREATE_CHILD_SA request, it SHOULD interpret that as
a likely packet loss and retransmit the CREATE_CHILD_SA request. An
initiator MAY send a dummy message on a newly created SA if it has no
messages queued in order to assure the responder that the initiator
is ready to receive messages.
2.9. Traffic Selector Negotiation
When an IP packet is received by an RFC4301-compliant IPsec subsystem
and matches a "protect" selector in its Security Policy Database
(SPD), the subsystem MUST protect that packet with IPsec. When no SA
exists yet, it is the task of IKE to create it. Maintenance of a
system's SPD is outside the scope of IKE (see [PFKEY] for an example
protocol), though some implementations might update their SPD in
connection with the running of IKE (for an example scenario, see
section 1.1.3).
Traffic Selector (TS) payloads allow endpoints to communicate some of
the information from their SPD to their peers. TS payloads specify
the selection criteria for packets that will be forwarded over the
newly set up SA. This can serve as a consistency check in some
scenarios to assure that the SPDs are consistent. In others, it
guides the dynamic update of the SPD.
Two TS payloads appear in each of the messages in the exchange that
creates a CHILD_SA pair. Each TS payload contains one or more
Traffic Selectors. Each Traffic Selector consists of an address
range (IPv4 or IPv6), a port range, and an IP protocol ID. In
support of the scenario described in section 1.1.3, an initiator may
request that the responder assign an IP address and tell the
initiator what it is.
IKEv2 allows the responder to choose a subset of the traffic proposed
by the initiator. This could happen when the configurations of the
two endpoints are being updated but only one end has received the new
information. Since the two endpoints may be configured by different
people, the incompatibility may persist for an extended period even
in the absence of errors. It also allows for intentionally different
configurations, as when one end is configured to tunnel all addresses
and depends on the other end to have the up-to-date list.
The first of the two TS payloads is known as TSi (Traffic Selector-
initiator). The second is known as TSr (Traffic Selector-responder).
TSi specifies the source address of traffic forwarded from (or the
destination address of traffic forwarded to) the initiator of the
CHILD_SA pair. TSr specifies the destination address of the traffic
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forwarded to (or the source address of the traffic forwarded from)
the responder of the CHILD_SA pair. For example, if the original
initiator request the creation of a CHILD_SA pair, and wishes to
tunnel all traffic from subnet 192.0.1.* on the initiator's side to
subnet 192.0.2.* on the responder's side, the initiator would include
a single traffic selector in each TS payload. TSi would specify the
address range (192.0.1.0 - 192.0.1.255) and TSr would specify the
address range (192.0.2.0 - 192.0.2.255). Assuming that proposal was
acceptable to the responder, it would send identical TS payloads
back. (Note: The IP address range 192.0.2.* has been reserved for
use in examples in RFCs and similar documents. This document needed
two such ranges, and so also used 192.0.1.*. This should not be
confused with any actual address.)
The responder is allowed to narrow the choices by selecting a subset
of the traffic, for instance by eliminating or narrowing the range of
one or more members of the set of traffic selectors, provided the set
does not become the NULL set.
It is possible for the responder's policy to contain multiple smaller
ranges, all encompassed by the initiator's traffic selector, and with
the responder's policy being that each of those ranges should be sent
over a different SA. Continuing the example above, the responder
might have a policy of being willing to tunnel those addresses to and
from the initiator, but might require that each address pair be on a
separately negotiated CHILD_SA. If the initiator generated its
request in response to an incoming packet from 192.0.1.43 to
192.0.2.123, there would be no way for the responder to determine
which pair of addresses should be included in this tunnel, and it
would have to make a guess or reject the request with a status of
SINGLE_PAIR_REQUIRED.
To enable the responder to choose the appropriate range in this case,
if the initiator has requested the SA due to a data packet, the
initiator SHOULD include as the first traffic selector in each of TSi
and TSr a very specific traffic selector including the addresses in
the packet triggering the request. In the example, the initiator
would include in TSi two traffic selectors: the first containing the
address range (192.0.1.43 - 192.0.1.43) and the source port and IP
protocol from the packet and the second containing (192.0.1.0 -
192.0.1.255) with all ports and IP protocols. The initiator would
similarly include two traffic selectors in TSr.
If the responder's policy does not allow it to accept the entire set
of traffic selectors in the initiator's request, but does allow him
to accept the first selector of TSi and TSr, then the responder MUST
narrow the traffic selectors to a subset that includes the
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initiator's first choices. In this example, the responder might
respond with TSi being (192.0.1.43 - 192.0.1.43) with all ports and
IP protocols.
If the initiator creates the CHILD_SA pair not in response to an
arriving packet, but rather, say, upon startup, then there may be no
specific addresses the initiator prefers for the initial tunnel over
any other. In that case, the first values in TSi and TSr MAY be
ranges rather than specific values, and the responder chooses a
subset of the initiator's TSi and TSr that are acceptable. If more
than one subset is acceptable but their union is not, the responder
MUST accept some subset and MAY include a Notify payload of type
ADDITIONAL_TS_POSSIBLE to indicate that the initiator might want to
try again. This case will occur only when the initiator and
responder are configured differently from one another. If the
initiator and responder agree on the granularity of tunnels, the
initiator will never request a tunnel wider than the responder will
accept. Such misconfigurations SHOULD be recorded in error logs.
2.10. Nonces
The IKE_SA_INIT messages each contain a nonce. These nonces are used
as inputs to cryptographic functions. The CREATE_CHILD_SA request
and the CREATE_CHILD_SA response also contain nonces. These nonces
are used to add freshness to the key derivation technique used to
obtain keys for CHILD_SA, and to ensure creation of strong pseudo-
random bits from the Diffie-Hellman key. Nonces used in IKEv2 MUST
be randomly chosen, MUST be at least 128 bits in size, and MUST be at
least half the key size of the negotiated prf. ("prf" refers to
"pseudo-random function", one of the cryptographic algorithms
negotiated in the IKE exchange.) If the same random number source is
used for both keys and nonces, care must be taken to ensure that the
latter use does not compromise the former.
2.11. Address and Port Agility
IKE runs over UDP ports 500 and 4500, and implicitly sets up ESP and
AH associations for the same IP addresses it runs over. The IP
addresses and ports in the outer header are, however, not themselves
cryptographically protected, and IKE is designed to work even through
Network Address Translation (NAT) boxes. An implementation MUST
accept incoming requests even if the source port is not 500 or 4500,
and MUST respond to the address and port from which the request was
received. It MUST specify the address and port at which the request
was received as the source address and port in the response. IKE
functions identically over IPv4 or IPv6.
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2.12. Reuse of Diffie-Hellman Exponentials
IKE generates keying material using an ephemeral Diffie-Hellman
exchange in order to gain the property of "perfect forward secrecy".
This means that once a connection is closed and its corresponding
keys are forgotten, even someone who has recorded all of the data
from the connection and gets access to all of the long-term keys of
the two endpoints cannot reconstruct the keys used to protect the
conversation without doing a brute force search of the session key
space.
Achieving perfect forward secrecy requires that when a connection is
closed, each endpoint MUST forget not only the keys used by the
connection but also any information that could be used to recompute
those keys. In particular, it MUST forget the secrets used in the
Diffie-Hellman calculation and any state that may persist in the
state of a pseudo-random number generator that could be used to
recompute the Diffie-Hellman secrets.
Since the computing of Diffie-Hellman exponentials is computationally
expensive, an endpoint may find it advantageous to reuse those
exponentials for multiple connection setups. There are several
reasonable strategies for doing this. An endpoint could choose a new
exponential only periodically though this could result in less-than-
perfect forward secrecy if some connection lasts for less than the
lifetime of the exponential. Or it could keep track of which
exponential was used for each connection and delete the information
associated with the exponential only when some corresponding
connection was closed. This would allow the exponential to be reused
without losing perfect forward secrecy at the cost of maintaining
more state.
Decisions as to whether and when to reuse Diffie-Hellman exponentials
is a private decision in the sense that it will not affect
interoperability. An implementation that reuses exponentials MAY
choose to remember the exponential used by the other endpoint on past
exchanges and if one is reused to avoid the second half of the
calculation.
2.13. Generating Keying Material
In the context of the IKE_SA, four cryptographic algorithms are
negotiated: an encryption algorithm, an integrity protection
algorithm, a Diffie-Hellman group, and a pseudo-random function
(prf). The pseudo-random function is used for the construction of
keying material for all of the cryptographic algorithms used in both
the IKE_SA and the CHILD_SAs.
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We assume that each encryption algorithm and integrity protection
algorithm uses a fixed-size key and that any randomly chosen value of
that fixed size can serve as an appropriate key. For algorithms that
accept a variable length key, a fixed key size MUST be specified as
part of the cryptographic transform negotiated. For algorithms for
which not all values are valid keys (such as DES or 3DES with key
parity), the algorithm by which keys are derived from arbitrary
values MUST be specified by the cryptographic transform. For
integrity protection functions based on Hashed Message Authentication
Code (HMAC), the fixed key size is the size of the output of the
underlying hash function. When the prf function takes a variable
length key, variable length data, and produces a fixed-length output
(e.g., when using HMAC), the formulas in this document apply. When
the key for the prf function has fixed length, the data provided as a
key is truncated or padded with zeros as necessary unless exceptional
processing is explained following the formula.
Keying material will always be derived as the output of the
negotiated prf algorithm. Since the amount of keying material needed
may be greater than the size of the output of the prf algorithm, we
will use the prf iteratively. We will use the terminology prf+ to
describe the function that outputs a pseudo-random stream based on
the inputs to a prf as follows: (where | indicates concatenation)
prf+ (K,S) = T1 | T2 | T3 | T4 | ...
where:
T1 = prf (K, S | 0x01)
T2 = prf (K, T1 | S | 0x02)
T3 = prf (K, T2 | S | 0x03)
T4 = prf (K, T3 | S | 0x04)
continuing as needed to compute all required keys. The keys are
taken from the output string without regard to boundaries (e.g., if
the required keys are a 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
key and a 160-bit HMAC key, and the prf function generates 160 bits,
the AES key will come from T1 and the beginning of T2, while the HMAC
key will come from the rest of T2 and the beginning of T3).
The constant concatenated to the end of each string feeding the prf
is a single octet. prf+ in this document is not defined beyond 255
times the size of the prf output.
2.14. Generating Keying Material for the IKE_SA
The shared keys are computed as follows. A quantity called SKEYSEED
is calculated from the nonces exchanged during the IKE_SA_INIT
exchange and the Diffie-Hellman shared secret established during that
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exchange. SKEYSEED is used to calculate seven other secrets: SK_d
used for deriving new keys for the CHILD_SAs established with this
IKE_SA; SK_ai and SK_ar used as a key to the integrity protection
algorithm for authenticating the component messages of subsequent
exchanges; SK_ei and SK_er used for encrypting (and of course
decrypting) all subsequent exchanges; and SK_pi and SK_pr, which are
used when generating an AUTH payload.
SKEYSEED and its derivatives are computed as follows:
SKEYSEED = prf(Ni | Nr, g^ir)
{SK_d | SK_ai | SK_ar | SK_ei | SK_er | SK_pi | SK_pr } = prf+
(SKEYSEED, Ni | Nr | SPIi | SPIr )
(indicating that the quantities SK_d, SK_ai, SK_ar, SK_ei, SK_er,
SK_pi, and SK_pr are taken in order from the generated bits of the
prf+). g^ir is the shared secret from the ephemeral Diffie-Hellman
exchange. g^ir is represented as a string of octets in big endian
order padded with zeros if necessary to make it the length of the
modulus. Ni and Nr are the nonces, stripped of any headers. If the
negotiated prf takes a fixed-length key and the lengths of Ni and Nr
do not add up to that length, half the bits must come from Ni and
half from Nr, taking the first bits of each.
The two directions of traffic flow use different keys. The keys used
to protect messages from the original initiator are SK_ai and SK_ei.
The keys used to protect messages in the other direction are SK_ar
and SK_er. Each algorithm takes a fixed number of bits of keying
material, which is specified as part of the algorithm. For integrity
algorithms based on a keyed hash, the key size is always equal to the
length of the output of the underlying hash function.
2.15. Authentication of the IKE_SA
When not using extensible authentication (see section 2.16), the
peers are authenticated by having each sign (or MAC using a shared
secret as the key) a block of data. For the responder, the octets to
be signed start with the first octet of the first SPI in the header
of the second message and end with the last octet of the last payload
in the second message. Appended to this (for purposes of computing
the signature) are the initiator's nonce Ni (just the value, not the
payload containing it), and the value prf(SK_pr,IDr') where IDr' is
the responder's ID payload excluding the fixed header. Note that
neither the nonce Ni nor the value prf(SK_pr,IDr') are transmitted.
Similarly, the initiator signs the first message, starting with the
first octet of the first SPI in the header and ending with the last
octet of the last payload. Appended to this (for purposes of
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computing the signature) are the responder's nonce Nr, and the value
prf(SK_pi,IDi'). In the above calculation, IDi' and IDr' are the
entire ID payloads excluding the fixed header. It is critical to the
security of the exchange that each side sign the other side's nonce.
Note that all of the payloads are included under the signature,
including any payload types not defined in this document. If the
first message of the exchange is sent twice (the second time with a
responder cookie and/or a different Diffie-Hellman group), it is the
second version of the message that is signed.
Optionally, messages 3 and 4 MAY include a certificate, or
certificate chain providing evidence that the key used to compute a
digital signature belongs to the name in the ID payload. The
signature or MAC will be computed using algorithms dictated by the
type of key used by the signer, and specified by the Auth Method
field in the Authentication payload. There is no requirement that
the initiator and responder sign with the same cryptographic
algorithms. The choice of cryptographic algorithms depends on the
type of key each has. In particular, the initiator may be using a
shared key while the responder may have a public signature key and
certificate. It will commonly be the case (but it is not required)
that if a shared secret is used for authentication that the same key
is used in both directions. Note that it is a common but typically
insecure practice to have a shared key derived solely from a user-
chosen password without incorporating another source of randomness.
This is typically insecure because user-chosen passwords are unlikely
to have sufficient unpredictability to resist dictionary attacks and
these attacks are not prevented in this authentication method.
(Applications using password-based authentication for bootstrapping
and IKE_SA should use the authentication method in section 2.16,
which is designed to prevent off-line dictionary attacks.) The pre-
shared key SHOULD contain as much unpredictability as the strongest
key being negotiated. In the case of a pre-shared key, the AUTH
value is computed as:
AUTH = prf(prf(Shared Secret,"Key Pad for IKEv2"), <msg octets>)
where the string "Key Pad for IKEv2" is 17 ASCII characters without
null termination. The shared secret can be variable length. The pad
string is added so that if the shared secret is derived from a
password, the IKE implementation need not store the password in
cleartext, but rather can store the value prf(Shared Secret,"Key Pad
for IKEv2"), which could not be used as a password equivalent for
protocols other than IKEv2. As noted above, deriving the shared
secret from a password is not secure. This construction is used
because it is anticipated that people will do it anyway. The
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management interface by which the Shared Secret is provided MUST
accept ASCII strings of at least 64 octets and MUST NOT add a null
terminator before using them as shared secrets. It MUST also accept
a HEX encoding of the Shared Secret. The management interface MAY
accept other encodings if the algorithm for translating the encoding
to a binary string is specified. If the negotiated prf takes a
fixed-size key, the shared secret MUST be of that fixed size.
2.16. Extensible Authentication Protocol Methods
In addition to authentication using public key signatures and shared
secrets, IKE supports authentication using methods defined in RFC
3748 [EAP]. Typically, these methods are asymmetric (designed for a
user authenticating to a server), and they may not be mutual. For
this reason, these protocols are typically used to authenticate the
initiator to the responder and MUST be used in conjunction with a
public key signature based authentication of the responder to the
initiator. These methods are often associated with mechanisms
referred to as "Legacy Authentication" mechanisms.
While this memo references [EAP] with the intent that new methods can
be added in the future without updating this specification, some
simpler variations are documented here and in section 3.16. [EAP]
defines an authentication protocol requiring a variable number of
messages. Extensible Authentication is implemented in IKE as
additional IKE_AUTH exchanges that MUST be completed in order to
initialize the IKE_SA.
An initiator indicates a desire to use extensible authentication by
leaving out the AUTH payload from message 3. By including an IDi
payload but not an AUTH payload, the initiator has declared an
identity but has not proven it. If the responder is willing to use
an extensible authentication method, it will place an Extensible
Authentication Protocol (EAP) payload in message 4 and defer sending
SAr2, TSi, and TSr until initiator authentication is complete in a
subsequent IKE_AUTH exchange. In the case of a minimal extensible
authentication, the initial SA establishment will appear as follows:
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Initiator Responder
----------- -----------
HDR, SAi1, KEi, Ni -->
<-- HDR, SAr1, KEr, Nr, [CERTREQ]
HDR, SK {IDi, [CERTREQ,] [IDr,]
SAi2, TSi, TSr} -->
<-- HDR, SK {IDr, [CERT,] AUTH,
EAP }
HDR, SK {EAP} -->
<-- HDR, SK {EAP (success)}
HDR, SK {AUTH} -->
<-- HDR, SK {AUTH, SAr2, TSi, TSr }
For EAP methods that create a shared key as a side effect of
authentication, that shared key MUST be used by both the initiator
and responder to generate AUTH payloads in messages 7 and 8 using the
syntax for shared secrets specified in section 2.15. The shared key
from EAP is the field from the EAP specification named MSK. The
shared key generated during an IKE exchange MUST NOT be used for any
other purpose.
EAP methods that do not establish a shared key SHOULD NOT be used, as
they are subject to a number of man-in-the-middle attacks [EAPMITM]
if these EAP methods are used in other protocols that do not use a
server-authenticated tunnel. Please see the Security Considerations
section for more details. If EAP methods that do not generate a
shared key are used, the AUTH payloads in messages 7 and 8 MUST be
generated using SK_pi and SK_pr, respectively.
The initiator of an IKE_SA using EAP SHOULD be capable of extending
the initial protocol exchange to at least ten IKE_AUTH exchanges in
the event the responder sends notification messages and/or retries
the authentication prompt. Once the protocol exchange defined by the
chosen EAP authentication method has successfully terminated, the
responder MUST send an EAP payload containing the Success message.
Similarly, if the authentication method has failed, the responder
MUST send an EAP payload containing the Failure message. The
responder MAY at any time terminate the IKE exchange by sending an
EAP payload containing the Failure message.
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Following such an extended exchange, the EAP AUTH payloads MUST be
included in the two messages following the one containing the EAP
Success message.
2.17. Generating Keying Material for CHILD_SAs
A single CHILD_SA is created by the IKE_AUTH exchange, and additional
CHILD_SAs can optionally be created in CREATE_CHILD_SA exchanges.
Keying material for them is generated as follows:
KEYMAT = prf+(SK_d, Ni | Nr)
Where Ni and Nr are the nonces from the IKE_SA_INIT exchange if this
request is the first CHILD_SA created or the fresh Ni and Nr from the
CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange if this is a subsequent creation.
For CREATE_CHILD_SA exchanges including an optional Diffie-Hellman
exchange, the keying material is defined as:
KEYMAT = prf+(SK_d, g^ir (new) | Ni | Nr )
where g^ir (new) is the shared secret from the ephemeral Diffie-
Hellman exchange of this CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange (represented as an
octet string in big endian order padded with zeros in the high-order
bits if necessary to make it the length of the modulus).
A single CHILD_SA negotiation may result in multiple security
associations. ESP and AH SAs exist in pairs (one in each direction),
and four SAs could be created in a single CHILD_SA negotiation if a
combination of ESP and AH is being negotiated.
Keying material MUST be taken from the expanded KEYMAT in the
following order:
All keys for SAs carrying data from the initiator to the responder
are taken before SAs going in the reverse direction.
If multiple IPsec protocols are negotiated, keying material is
taken in the order in which the protocol headers will appear in
the encapsulated packet.
If a single protocol has both encryption and authentication keys,
the encryption key is taken from the first octets of KEYMAT and
the authentication key is taken from the next octets.
Each cryptographic algorithm takes a fixed number of bits of keying
material specified as part of the algorithm.
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2.18. Rekeying IKE_SAs Using a CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange
The CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange can be used to rekey an existing IKE_SA
(see section 2.8). New initiator and responder SPIs are supplied in
the SPI fields. The TS payloads are omitted when rekeying an IKE_SA.
SKEYSEED for the new IKE_SA is computed using SK_d from the existing
IKE_SA as follows:
SKEYSEED = prf(SK_d (old), [g^ir (new)] | Ni | Nr)
where g^ir (new) is the shared secret from the ephemeral Diffie-
Hellman exchange of this CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange (represented as an
octet string in big endian order padded with zeros if necessary to
make it the length of the modulus) and Ni and Nr are the two nonces
stripped of any headers.
The new IKE_SA MUST reset its message counters to 0.
SK_d, SK_ai, SK_ar, SK_ei, and SK_er are computed from SKEYSEED as
specified in section 2.14.
2.19. Requesting an Internal Address on a Remote Network
Most commonly occurring in the endpoint-to-security-gateway scenario,
an endpoint may need an IP address in the network protected by the
security gateway and may need to have that address dynamically
assigned. A request for such a temporary address can be included in
any request to create a CHILD_SA (including the implicit request in
message 3) by including a CP payload.
This function provides address allocation to an IPsec Remote Access
Client (IRAC) trying to tunnel into a network protected by an IPsec
Remote Access Server (IRAS). Since the IKE_AUTH exchange creates an
IKE_SA and a CHILD_SA, the IRAC MUST request the IRAS-controlled
address (and optionally other information concerning the protected
network) in the IKE_AUTH exchange. The IRAS may procure an address
for the IRAC from any number of sources such as a DHCP/BOOTP server
or its own address pool.
Initiator Responder
----------------------------- ---------------------------
HDR, SK {IDi, [CERT,] [CERTREQ,]
[IDr,] AUTH, CP(CFG_REQUEST),
SAi2, TSi, TSr} -->
<-- HDR, SK {IDr, [CERT,] AUTH,
CP(CFG_REPLY), SAr2,
TSi, TSr}
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In all cases, the CP payload MUST be inserted before the SA payload.
In variations of the protocol where there are multiple IKE_AUTH
exchanges, the CP payloads MUST be inserted in the messages
containing the SA payloads.
CP(CFG_REQUEST) MUST contain at least an INTERNAL_ADDRESS attribute
(either IPv4 or IPv6) but MAY contain any number of additional
attributes the initiator wants returned in the response.
For example, message from initiator to responder:
CP(CFG_REQUEST)=
INTERNAL_ADDRESS(0.0.0.0)
INTERNAL_NETMASK(0.0.0.0)
INTERNAL_DNS(0.0.0.0)
TSi = (0, 0-65535,0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255)
TSr = (0, 0-65535,0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255)
NOTE: Traffic Selectors contain (protocol, port range, address
range).
Message from responder to initiator:
CP(CFG_REPLY)=
INTERNAL_ADDRESS(192.0.2.202)
INTERNAL_NETMASK(255.255.255.0)
INTERNAL_SUBNET(192.0.2.0/255.255.255.0)
TSi = (0, 0-65535,192.0.2.202-192.0.2.202)
TSr = (0, 0-65535,192.0.2.0-192.0.2.255)
All returned values will be implementation dependent. As can be seen
in the above example, the IRAS MAY also send other attributes that
were not included in CP(CFG_REQUEST) and MAY ignore the non-mandatory
attributes that it does not support.
The responder MUST NOT send a CFG_REPLY without having first received
a CP(CFG_REQUEST) from the initiator, because we do not want the IRAS
to perform an unnecessary configuration lookup if the IRAC cannot
process the REPLY. In the case where the IRAS's configuration
requires that CP be used for a given identity IDi, but IRAC has
failed to send a CP(CFG_REQUEST), IRAS MUST fail the request, and
terminate the IKE exchange with a FAILED_CP_REQUIRED error.
2.20. Requesting the Peer's Version
An IKE peer wishing to inquire about the other peer's IKE software
version information MAY use the method below. This is an example of
a configuration request within an INFORMATIONAL exchange, after the
IKE_SA and first CHILD_SA have been created.
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An IKE implementation MAY decline to give out version information
prior to authentication or even after authentication to prevent
trolling in case some implementation is known to have some security
weakness. In that case, it MUST either return an empty string or no
CP payload if CP is not supported.
Initiator Responder
----------------------------- --------------------------
HDR, SK{CP(CFG_REQUEST)} -->
<-- HDR, SK{CP(CFG_REPLY)}
CP(CFG_REQUEST)=
APPLICATION_VERSION("")
CP(CFG_REPLY) APPLICATION_VERSION("foobar v1.3beta, (c) Foo Bar
Inc.")
2.21. Error Handling
There are many kinds of errors that can occur during IKE processing.
If a request is received that is badly formatted or unacceptable for
reasons of policy (e.g., no matching cryptographic algorithms), the
response MUST contain a Notify payload indicating the error. If an
error occurs outside the context of an IKE request (e.g., the node is
getting ESP messages on a nonexistent SPI), the node SHOULD initiate
an INFORMATIONAL exchange with a Notify payload describing the
problem.
Errors that occur before a cryptographically protected IKE_SA is
established must be handled very carefully. There is a trade-off
between wanting to be helpful in diagnosing a problem and responding
to it and wanting to avoid being a dupe in a denial of service attack
based on forged messages.
If a node receives a message on UDP port 500 or 4500 outside the
context of an IKE_SA known to it (and not a request to start one), it
may be the result of a recent crash of the node. If the message is
marked as a response, the node MAY audit the suspicious event but
MUST NOT respond. If the message is marked as a request, the node
MAY audit the suspicious event and MAY send a response. If a
response is sent, the response MUST be sent to the IP address and
port from whence it came with the same IKE SPIs and the Message ID
copied. The response MUST NOT be cryptographically protected and
MUST contain a Notify payload indicating INVALID_IKE_SPI.
A node receiving such an unprotected Notify payload MUST NOT respond
and MUST NOT change the state of any existing SAs. The message might
be a forgery or might be a response the genuine correspondent was
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tricked into sending. A node SHOULD treat such a message (and also a
network message like ICMP destination unreachable) as a hint that
there might be problems with SAs to that IP address and SHOULD
initiate a liveness test for any such IKE_SA. An implementation
SHOULD limit the frequency of such tests to avoid being tricked into
participating in a denial of service attack.
A node receiving a suspicious message from an IP address with which
it has an IKE_SA MAY send an IKE Notify payload in an IKE
INFORMATIONAL exchange over that SA. The recipient MUST NOT change
the state of any SA's as a result but SHOULD audit the event to aid
in diagnosing malfunctions. A node MUST limit the rate at which it
will send messages in response to unprotected messages.
2.22. IPComp
Use of IP compression [IPCOMP] can be negotiated as part of the setup
of a CHILD_SA. While IP compression involves an extra header in each
packet and a compression parameter index (CPI), the virtual
"compression association" has no life outside the ESP or AH SA that
contains it. Compression associations disappear when the
corresponding ESP or AH SA goes away. It is not explicitly mentioned
in any DELETE payload.
Negotiation of IP compression is separate from the negotiation of
cryptographic parameters associated with a CHILD_SA. A node
requesting a CHILD_SA MAY advertise its support for one or more
compression algorithms through one or more Notify payloads of type
IPCOMP_SUPPORTED. The response MAY indicate acceptance of a single
compression algorithm with a Notify payload of type IPCOMP_SUPPORTED.
These payloads MUST NOT occur in messages that do not contain SA
payloads.
Although there has been discussion of allowing multiple compression
algorithms to be accepted and to have different compression
algorithms available for the two directions of a CHILD_SA,
implementations of this specification MUST NOT accept an IPComp
algorithm that was not proposed, MUST NOT accept more than one, and
MUST NOT compress using an algorithm other than one proposed and
accepted in the setup of the CHILD_SA.
A side effect of separating the negotiation of IPComp from
cryptographic parameters is that it is not possible to propose
multiple cryptographic suites and propose IP compression with some of
them but not others.
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2.23. NAT Traversal
Network Address Translation (NAT) gateways are a controversial
subject. This section briefly describes what they are and how they
are likely to act on IKE traffic. Many people believe that NATs are
evil and that we should not design our protocols so as to make them
work better. IKEv2 does specify some unintuitive processing rules in
order that NATs are more likely to work.
NATs exist primarily because of the shortage of IPv4 addresses,
though there are other rationales. IP nodes that are "behind" a NAT
have IP addresses that are not globally unique, but rather are
assigned from some space that is unique within the network behind the
NAT but that are likely to be reused by nodes behind other NATs.
Generally, nodes behind NATs can communicate with other nodes behind
the same NAT and with nodes with globally unique addresses, but not
with nodes behind other NATs. There are exceptions to that rule.
When those nodes make connections to nodes on the real Internet, the
NAT gateway "translates" the IP source address to an address that
will be routed back to the gateway. Messages to the gateway from the
Internet have their destination addresses "translated" to the
internal address that will route the packet to the correct endnode.
NATs are designed to be "transparent" to endnodes. Neither software
on the node behind the NAT nor the node on the Internet requires
modification to communicate through the NAT. Achieving this
transparency is more difficult with some protocols than with others.
Protocols that include IP addresses of the endpoints within the
payloads of the packet will fail unless the NAT gateway understands
the protocol and modifies the internal references as well as those in
the headers. Such knowledge is inherently unreliable, is a network
layer violation, and often results in subtle problems.
Opening an IPsec connection through a NAT introduces special
problems. If the connection runs in transport mode, changing the IP
addresses on packets will cause the checksums to fail and the NAT
cannot correct the checksums because they are cryptographically
protected. Even in tunnel mode, there are routing problems because
transparently translating the addresses of AH and ESP packets
requires special logic in the NAT and that logic is heuristic and
unreliable in nature. For that reason, IKEv2 can negotiate UDP
encapsulation of IKE and ESP packets. This encoding is slightly less
efficient but is easier for NATs to process. In addition, firewalls
may be configured to pass IPsec traffic over UDP but not ESP/AH or
vice versa.
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It is a common practice of NATs to translate TCP and UDP port numbers
as well as addresses and use the port numbers of inbound packets to
decide which internal node should get a given packet. For this
reason, even though IKE packets MUST be sent from and to UDP port
500, they MUST be accepted coming from any port and responses MUST be
sent to the port from whence they came. This is because the ports
may be modified as the packets pass through NATs. Similarly, IP
addresses of the IKE endpoints are generally not included in the IKE
payloads because the payloads are cryptographically protected and
could not be transparently modified by NATs.
Port 4500 is reserved for UDP-encapsulated ESP and IKE. When working
through a NAT, it is generally better to pass IKE packets over port
4500 because some older NATs handle IKE traffic on port 500 cleverly
in an attempt to transparently establish IPsec connections between
endpoints that don't handle NAT traversal themselves. Such NATs may
interfere with the straightforward NAT traversal envisioned by this
document, so an IPsec endpoint that discovers a NAT between it and
its correspondent MUST send all subsequent traffic to and from port
4500, which NATs should not treat specially (as they might with port
500).
The specific requirements for supporting NAT traversal [RFC3715] are
listed below. Support for NAT traversal is optional. In this
section only, requirements listed as MUST apply only to
implementations supporting NAT traversal.
IKE MUST listen on port 4500 as well as port 500. IKE MUST
respond to the IP address and port from which packets arrived.
Both IKE initiator and responder MUST include in their IKE_SA_INIT
packets Notify payloads of type NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE_IP and
NAT_DETECTION_DESTINATION_IP. Those payloads can be used to
detect if there is NAT between the hosts, and which end is behind
the NAT. The location of the payloads in the IKE_SA_INIT packets
are just after the Ni and Nr payloads (before the optional CERTREQ
payload).
If none of the NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE_IP payload(s) received matches
the hash of the source IP and port found from the IP header of the
packet containing the payload, it means that the other end is
behind NAT (i.e., someone along the route changed the source
address of the original packet to match the address of the NAT
box). In this case, this end should allow dynamic update of the
other ends IP address, as described later.
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If the NAT_DETECTION_DESTINATION_IP payload received does not
match the hash of the destination IP and port found from the IP
header of the packet containing the payload, it means that this
end is behind a NAT. In this case, this end SHOULD start sending
keepalive packets as explained in [Hutt05].
The IKE initiator MUST check these payloads if present and if they
do not match the addresses in the outer packet MUST tunnel all
future IKE and ESP packets associated with this IKE_SA over UDP
port 4500.
To tunnel IKE packets over UDP port 4500, the IKE header has four
octets of zero prepended and the result immediately follows the
UDP header. To tunnel ESP packets over UDP port 4500, the ESP
header immediately follows the UDP header. Since the first four
bytes of the ESP header contain the SPI, and the SPI cannot
validly be zero, it is always possible to distinguish ESP and IKE
messages.
The original source and destination IP address required for the
transport mode TCP and UDP packet checksum fixup (see [Hutt05])
are obtained from the Traffic Selectors associated with the
exchange. In the case of NAT traversal, the Traffic Selectors
MUST contain exactly one IP address, which is then used as the
original IP address.
There are cases where a NAT box decides to remove mappings that
are still alive (for example, the keepalive interval is too long,
or the NAT box is rebooted). To recover in these cases, hosts
that are not behind a NAT SHOULD send all packets (including
retransmission packets) to the IP address and port from the last
valid authenticated packet from the other end (i.e., dynamically
update the address). A host behind a NAT SHOULD NOT do this
because it opens a DoS attack possibility. Any authenticated IKE
packet or any authenticated UDP-encapsulated ESP packet can be
used to detect that the IP address or the port has changed.
Note that similar but probably not identical actions will likely
be needed to make IKE work with Mobile IP, but such processing is
not addressed by this document.
2.24. Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
When IPsec tunnels behave as originally specified in [RFC2401], ECN
usage is not appropriate for the outer IP headers because tunnel
decapsulation processing discards ECN congestion indications to the
detriment of the network. ECN support for IPsec tunnels for IKEv1-
based IPsec requires multiple operating modes and negotiation (see
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[RFC3168]). IKEv2 simplifies this situation by requiring that ECN be
usable in the outer IP headers of all tunnel-mode IPsec SAs created
by IKEv2. Specifically, tunnel encapsulators and decapsulators for
all tunnel-mode SAs created by IKEv2 MUST support the ECN full-
functionality option for tunnels specified in [RFC3168] and MUST
implement the tunnel encapsulation and decapsulation processing
specified in [RFC4301] to prevent discarding of ECN congestion
indications.
3. Header and Payload Formats
3.1. The IKE Header
IKE messages use UDP ports 500 and/or 4500, with one IKE message per
UDP datagram. Information from the beginning of the packet through
the UDP header is largely ignored except that the IP addresses and
UDP ports from the headers are reversed and used for return packets.
When sent on UDP port 500, IKE messages begin immediately following
the UDP header. When sent on UDP port 4500, IKE messages have
prepended four octets of zero. These four octets of zero are not
part of the IKE message and are not included in any of the length
fields or checksums defined by IKE. Each IKE message begins with the
IKE header, denoted HDR in this memo. Following the header are one
or more IKE payloads each identified by a "Next Payload" field in the
preceding payload. Payloads are processed in the order in which they
appear in an IKE message by invoking the appropriate processing
routine according to the "Next Payload" field in the IKE header and
subsequently according to the "Next Payload" field in the IKE payload
itself until a "Next Payload" field of zero indicates that no
payloads follow. If a payload of type "Encrypted" is found, that
payload is decrypted and its contents parsed as additional payloads.
An Encrypted payload MUST be the last payload in a packet and an
Encrypted payload MUST NOT contain another Encrypted payload.
The Recipient SPI in the header identifies an instance of an IKE
security association. It is therefore possible for a single instance
of IKE to multiplex distinct sessions with multiple peers.
All multi-octet fields representing integers are laid out in big
endian order (aka most significant byte first, or network byte
order).
The format of the IKE header is shown in Figure 4.
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1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! IKE_SA Initiator's SPI !
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! IKE_SA Responder's SPI !
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload ! MjVer ! MnVer ! Exchange Type ! Flags !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Message ID !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 4: IKE Header Format
o Initiator's SPI (8 octets) - A value chosen by the
initiator to identify a unique IKE security association. This
value MUST NOT be zero.
o Responder's SPI (8 octets) - A value chosen by the
responder to identify a unique IKE security association. This
value MUST be zero in the first message of an IKE Initial
Exchange (including repeats of that message including a
cookie) and MUST NOT be zero in any other message.
o Next Payload (1 octet) - Indicates the type of payload that
immediately follows the header. The format and value of each
payload are defined below.
o Major Version (4 bits) - Indicates the major version of the IKE
protocol in use. Implementations based on this version of IKE
MUST set the Major Version to 2. Implementations based on
previous versions of IKE and ISAKMP MUST set the Major Version
to 1. Implementations based on this version of IKE MUST reject
or ignore messages containing a version number greater than
2.
o Minor Version (4 bits) - Indicates the minor version of the
IKE protocol in use. Implementations based on this version of
IKE MUST set the Minor Version to 0. They MUST ignore the
minor version number of received messages.
o Exchange Type (1 octet) - Indicates the type of exchange being
used. This constrains the payloads sent in each message and
orderings of messages in an exchange.
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Exchange Type Value
RESERVED 0-33
IKE_SA_INIT 34
IKE_AUTH 35
CREATE_CHILD_SA 36
INFORMATIONAL 37
RESERVED TO IANA 38-239
Reserved for private use 240-255
o Flags (1 octet) - Indicates specific options that are set
for the message. Presence of options are indicated by the
appropriate bit in the flags field being set. The bits are
defined LSB first, so bit 0 would be the least significant
bit of the Flags octet. In the description below, a bit
being 'set' means its value is '1', while 'cleared' means
its value is '0'.
-- X(reserved) (bits 0-2) - These bits MUST be cleared
when sending and MUST be ignored on receipt.
-- I(nitiator) (bit 3 of Flags) - This bit MUST be set in
messages sent by the original initiator of the IKE_SA
and MUST be cleared in messages sent by the original
responder. It is used by the recipient to determine
which eight octets of the SPI were generated by the
recipient.
-- V(ersion) (bit 4 of Flags) - This bit indicates that
the transmitter is capable of speaking a higher major
version number of the protocol than the one indicated
in the major version number field. Implementations of
IKEv2 must clear this bit when sending and MUST ignore
it in incoming messages.
-- R(esponse) (bit 5 of Flags) - This bit indicates that
this message is a response to a message containing
the same message ID. This bit MUST be cleared in all
request messages and MUST be set in all responses.
An IKE endpoint MUST NOT generate a response to a
message that is marked as being a response.
-- X(reserved) (bits 6-7 of Flags) - These bits MUST be
cleared when sending and MUST be ignored on receipt.
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o Message ID (4 octets) - Message identifier used to control
retransmission of lost packets and matching of requests and
responses. It is essential to the security of the protocol
because it is used to prevent message replay attacks.
See sections 2.1 and 2.2.
o Length (4 octets) - Length of total message (header + payloads)
in octets.
3.2. Generic Payload Header
Each IKE payload defined in sections 3.3 through 3.16 begins with a
generic payload header, shown in Figure 5. Figures for each payload
below will include the generic payload header, but for brevity the
description of each field will be omitted.
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 5: Generic Payload Header
The Generic Payload Header fields are defined as follows:
o Next Payload (1 octet) - Identifier for the payload type of the
next payload in the message. If the current payload is the last
in the message, then this field will be 0. This field provides a
"chaining" capability whereby additional payloads can be added to
a message by appending it to the end of the message and setting
the "Next Payload" field of the preceding payload to indicate the
new payload's type. An Encrypted payload, which must always be
the last payload of a message, is an exception. It contains data
structures in the format of additional payloads. In the header of
an Encrypted payload, the Next Payload field is set to the payload
type of the first contained payload (instead of 0).
Payload Type Values
Next Payload Type Notation Value
No Next Payload 0
RESERVED 1-32
Security Association SA 33
Key Exchange KE 34
Identification - Initiator IDi 35
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Identification - Responder IDr 36
Certificate CERT 37
Certificate Request CERTREQ 38
Authentication AUTH 39
Nonce Ni, Nr 40
Notify N 41
Delete D 42
Vendor ID V 43
Traffic Selector - Initiator TSi 44
Traffic Selector - Responder TSr 45
Encrypted E 46
Configuration CP 47
Extensible Authentication EAP 48
RESERVED TO IANA 49-127
PRIVATE USE 128-255
Payload type values 1-32 should not be used so that there is no
overlap with the code assignments for IKEv1. Payload type values
49-127 are reserved to IANA for future assignment in IKEv2 (see
section 6). Payload type values 128-255 are for private use among
mutually consenting parties.
o Critical (1 bit) - MUST be set to zero if the sender wants the
recipient to skip this payload if it does not understand the
payload type code in the Next Payload field of the previous
payload. MUST be set to one if the sender wants the recipient to
reject this entire message if it does not understand the payload
type. MUST be ignored by the recipient if the recipient
understands the payload type code. MUST be set to zero for
payload types defined in this document. Note that the critical
bit applies to the current payload rather than the "next" payload
whose type code appears in the first octet. The reasoning behind
not setting the critical bit for payloads defined in this document
is that all implementations MUST understand all payload types
defined in this document and therefore must ignore the Critical
bit's value. Skipped payloads are expected to have valid Next
Payload and Payload Length fields.
o RESERVED (7 bits) - MUST be sent as zero; MUST be ignored on
receipt.
o Payload Length (2 octets) - Length in octets of the current
payload, including the generic payload header.
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3.3. Security Association Payload
The Security Association Payload, denoted SA in this memo, is used to
negotiate attributes of a security association. Assembly of Security
Association Payloads requires great peace of mind. An SA payload MAY
contain multiple proposals. If there is more than one, they MUST be
ordered from most preferred to least preferred. Each proposal may
contain multiple IPsec protocols (where a protocol is IKE, ESP, or
AH), each protocol MAY contain multiple transforms, and each
transform MAY contain multiple attributes. When parsing an SA, an
implementation MUST check that the total Payload Length is consistent
with the payload's internal lengths and counts. Proposals,
Transforms, and Attributes each have their own variable length
encodings. They are nested such that the Payload Length of an SA
includes the combined contents of the SA, Proposal, Transform, and
Attribute information. The length of a Proposal includes the lengths
of all Transforms and Attributes it contains. The length of a
Transform includes the lengths of all Attributes it contains.
The syntax of Security Associations, Proposals, Transforms, and
Attributes is based on ISAKMP; however, the semantics are somewhat
different. The reason for the complexity and the hierarchy is to
allow for multiple possible combinations of algorithms to be encoded
in a single SA. Sometimes there is a choice of multiple algorithms,
whereas other times there is a combination of algorithms. For
example, an initiator might want to propose using (AH w/MD5 and ESP
w/3DES) OR (ESP w/MD5 and 3DES).
One of the reasons the semantics of the SA payload has changed from
ISAKMP and IKEv1 is to make the encodings more compact in common
cases.
The Proposal structure contains within it a Proposal # and an IPsec
protocol ID. Each structure MUST have the same Proposal # as the
previous one or be one (1) greater. The first Proposal MUST have a
Proposal # of one (1). If two successive structures have the same
Proposal number, it means that the proposal consists of the first
structure AND the second. So a proposal of AH AND ESP would have two
proposal structures, one for AH and one for ESP and both would have
Proposal #1. A proposal of AH OR ESP would have two proposal
structures, one for AH with Proposal #1 and one for ESP with Proposal
#2.
Each Proposal/Protocol structure is followed by one or more transform
structures. The number of different transforms is generally
determined by the Protocol. AH generally has a single transform: an
integrity check algorithm. ESP generally has two: an encryption
algorithm and an integrity check algorithm. IKE generally has four
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transforms: a Diffie-Hellman group, an integrity check algorithm, a
prf algorithm, and an encryption algorithm. If an algorithm that
combines encryption and integrity protection is proposed, it MUST be
proposed as an encryption algorithm and an integrity protection
algorithm MUST NOT be proposed. For each Protocol, the set of
permissible transforms is assigned transform ID numbers, which appear
in the header of each transform.
If there are multiple transforms with the same Transform Type, the
proposal is an OR of those transforms. If there are multiple
Transforms with different Transform Types, the proposal is an AND of
the different groups. For example, to propose ESP with (3DES or
IDEA) and (HMAC_MD5 or HMAC_SHA), the ESP proposal would contain two
Transform Type 1 candidates (one for 3DES and one for IDEA) and two
Transform Type 2 candidates (one for HMAC_MD5 and one for HMAC_SHA).
This effectively proposes four combinations of algorithms. If the
initiator wanted to propose only a subset of those, for example (3DES
and HMAC_MD5) or (IDEA and HMAC_SHA), there is no way to encode that
as multiple transforms within a single Proposal. Instead, the
initiator would have to construct two different Proposals, each with
two transforms.
A given transform MAY have one or more Attributes. Attributes are
necessary when the transform can be used in more than one way, as
when an encryption algorithm has a variable key size. The transform
would specify the algorithm and the attribute would specify the key
size. Most transforms do not have attributes. A transform MUST NOT
have multiple attributes of the same type. To propose alternate
values for an attribute (for example, multiple key sizes for the AES
encryption algorithm), and implementation MUST include multiple
Transforms with the same Transform Type each with a single Attribute.
Note that the semantics of Transforms and Attributes are quite
different from those in IKEv1. In IKEv1, a single Transform carried
multiple algorithms for a protocol with one carried in the Transform
and the others carried in the Attributes.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ <Proposals> ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 6: Security Association Payload
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o Proposals (variable) - One or more proposal substructures.
The payload type for the Security Association Payload is thirty
three (33).
3.3.1. Proposal Substructure
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! 0 (last) or 2 ! RESERVED ! Proposal Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Proposal # ! Protocol ID ! SPI Size !# of Transforms!
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
~ SPI (variable) ~
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ <Transforms> ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 7: Proposal Substructure
o 0 (last) or 2 (more) (1 octet) - Specifies whether this is the
last Proposal Substructure in the SA. This syntax is inherited
from ISAKMP, but is unnecessary because the last Proposal could
be identified from the length of the SA. The value (2)
corresponds to a Payload Type of Proposal in IKEv1, and the
first 4 octets of the Proposal structure are designed to look
somewhat like the header of a Payload.
o RESERVED (1 octet) - MUST be sent as zero; MUST be ignored on
receipt.
o Proposal Length (2 octets) - Length of this proposal, including
all transforms and attributes that follow.
o Proposal # (1 octet) - When a proposal is made, the first
proposal in an SA payload MUST be #1, and subsequent proposals
MUST either be the same as the previous proposal (indicating an
AND of the two proposals) or one more than the previous
proposal (indicating an OR of the two proposals). When a
proposal is accepted, all of the proposal numbers in the SA
payload MUST be the same and MUST match the number on the
proposal sent that was accepted.
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o Protocol ID (1 octet) - Specifies the IPsec protocol identifier
for the current negotiation. The defined values are:
Protocol Protocol ID
RESERVED 0
IKE 1
AH 2
ESP 3
RESERVED TO IANA 4-200
PRIVATE USE 201-255
o SPI Size (1 octet) - For an initial IKE_SA negotiation, this
field MUST be zero; the SPI is obtained from the outer header.
During subsequent negotiations, it is equal to the size, in
octets, of the SPI of the corresponding protocol (8 for IKE, 4
for ESP and AH).
o # of Transforms (1 octet) - Specifies the number of transforms
in this proposal.
o SPI (variable) - The sending entity's SPI. Even if the SPI Size
is not a multiple of 4 octets, there is no padding applied to
the payload. When the SPI Size field is zero, this field is
not present in the Security Association payload.
o Transforms (variable) - One or more transform substructures.
3.3.2. Transform Substructure
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! 0 (last) or 3 ! RESERVED ! Transform Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
!Transform Type ! RESERVED ! Transform ID !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Transform Attributes ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 8: Transform Substructure
o 0 (last) or 3 (more) (1 octet) - Specifies whether this is the
last Transform Substructure in the Proposal. This syntax is
inherited from ISAKMP, but is unnecessary because the last
Proposal could be identified from the length of the SA. The
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value (3) corresponds to a Payload Type of Transform in IKEv1,
and the first 4 octets of the Transform structure are designed
to look somewhat like the header of a Payload.
o RESERVED - MUST be sent as zero; MUST be ignored on receipt.
o Transform Length - The length (in octets) of the Transform
Substructure including Header and Attributes.
o Transform Type (1 octet) - The type of transform being
specified in this transform. Different protocols support
different transform types. For some protocols, some of the
transforms may be optional. If a transform is optional and the
initiator wishes to propose that the transform be omitted, no
transform of the given type is included in the proposal. If
the initiator wishes to make use of the transform optional to
the responder, it includes a transform substructure with
transform ID = 0 as one of the options.
o Transform ID (2 octets) - The specific instance of the
transform type being proposed.
Transform Type Values
Transform Used In
Type
RESERVED 0
Encryption Algorithm (ENCR) 1 (IKE and ESP)
Pseudo-random Function (PRF) 2 (IKE)
Integrity Algorithm (INTEG) 3 (IKE, AH, optional in ESP)
Diffie-Hellman Group (D-H) 4 (IKE, optional in AH & ESP)
Extended Sequence Numbers (ESN) 5 (AH and ESP)
RESERVED TO IANA 6-240
PRIVATE USE 241-255
For Transform Type 1 (Encryption Algorithm), defined Transform IDs
are:
Name Number Defined In
RESERVED 0
ENCR_DES_IV64 1 (RFC1827)
ENCR_DES 2 (RFC2405), [DES]
ENCR_3DES 3 (RFC2451)
ENCR_RC5 4 (RFC2451)
ENCR_IDEA 5 (RFC2451), [IDEA]
ENCR_CAST 6 (RFC2451)
ENCR_BLOWFISH 7 (RFC2451)
ENCR_3IDEA 8 (RFC2451)
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ENCR_DES_IV32 9
RESERVED 10
ENCR_NULL 11 (RFC2410)
ENCR_AES_CBC 12 (RFC3602)
ENCR_AES_CTR 13 (RFC3664)
values 14-1023 are reserved to IANA. Values 1024-65535 are
for private use among mutually consenting parties.
For Transform Type 2 (Pseudo-random Function), defined Transform IDs
are:
Name Number Defined In
RESERVED 0
PRF_HMAC_MD5 1 (RFC2104), [MD5]
PRF_HMAC_SHA1 2 (RFC2104), [SHA]
PRF_HMAC_TIGER 3 (RFC2104)
PRF_AES128_XCBC 4 (RFC3664)
values 5-1023 are reserved to IANA. Values 1024-65535 are for
private use among mutually consenting parties.
For Transform Type 3 (Integrity Algorithm), defined Transform IDs
are:
Name Number Defined In
NONE 0
AUTH_HMAC_MD5_96 1 (RFC2403)
AUTH_HMAC_SHA1_96 2 (RFC2404)
AUTH_DES_MAC 3
AUTH_KPDK_MD5 4 (RFC1826)
AUTH_AES_XCBC_96 5 (RFC3566)
values 6-1023 are reserved to IANA. Values 1024-65535 are for
private use among mutually consenting parties.
For Transform Type 4 (Diffie-Hellman Group), defined Transform IDs
are:
Name Number
NONE 0
Defined in Appendix B 1 - 2
RESERVED 3 - 4
Defined in [ADDGROUP] 5
RESERVED TO IANA 6 - 13
Defined in [ADDGROUP] 14 - 18
RESERVED TO IANA 19 - 1023
PRIVATE USE 1024-65535
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For Transform Type 5 (Extended Sequence Numbers), defined Transform
IDs are:
Name Number
No Extended Sequence Numbers 0
Extended Sequence Numbers 1
RESERVED 2 - 65535
3.3.3. Valid Transform Types by Protocol
The number and type of transforms that accompany an SA payload are
dependent on the protocol in the SA itself. An SA payload proposing
the establishment of an SA has the following mandatory and optional
transform types. A compliant implementation MUST understand all
mandatory and optional types for each protocol it supports (though it
need not accept proposals with unacceptable suites). A proposal MAY
omit the optional types if the only value for them it will accept is
NONE.
Protocol Mandatory Types Optional Types
IKE ENCR, PRF, INTEG, D-H
ESP ENCR, ESN INTEG, D-H
AH INTEG, ESN D-H
3.3.4. Mandatory Transform IDs
The specification of suites that MUST and SHOULD be supported for
interoperability has been removed from this document because they are
likely to change more rapidly than this document evolves.
An important lesson learned from IKEv1 is that no system should only
implement the mandatory algorithms and expect them to be the best
choice for all customers. For example, at the time that this
document was written, many IKEv1 implementers were starting to
migrate to AES in Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode for Virtual
Private Network (VPN) applications. Many IPsec systems based on
IKEv2 will implement AES, additional Diffie-Hellman groups, and
additional hash algorithms, and some IPsec customers already require
these algorithms in addition to the ones listed above.
It is likely that IANA will add additional transforms in the future,
and some users may want to use private suites, especially for IKE
where implementations should be capable of supporting different
parameters, up to certain size limits. In support of this goal, all
implementations of IKEv2 SHOULD include a management facility that
allows specification (by a user or system administrator) of Diffie-
Hellman (DH) parameters (the generator, modulus, and exponent lengths
and values) for new DH groups. Implementations SHOULD provide a
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management interface via which these parameters and the associated
transform IDs may be entered (by a user or system administrator), to
enable negotiating such groups.
All implementations of IKEv2 MUST include a management facility that
enables a user or system administrator to specify the suites that are
acceptable for use with IKE. Upon receipt of a payload with a set of
transform IDs, the implementation MUST compare the transmitted
transform IDs against those locally configured via the management
controls, to verify that the proposed suite is acceptable based on
local policy. The implementation MUST reject SA proposals that are
not authorized by these IKE suite controls. Note that cryptographic
suites that MUST be implemented need not be configured as acceptable
to local policy.
3.3.5. Transform Attributes
Each transform in a Security Association payload may include
attributes that modify or complete the specification of the
transform. These attributes are type/value pairs and are defined
below. For example, if an encryption algorithm has a variable-length
key, the key length to be used may be specified as an attribute.
Attributes can have a value with a fixed two octet length or a
variable-length value. For the latter, the attribute is encoded as
type/length/value.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
!A! Attribute Type ! AF=0 Attribute Length !
!F! ! AF=1 Attribute Value !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! AF=0 Attribute Value !
! AF=1 Not Transmitted !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 9: Data Attributes
o Attribute Type (2 octets) - Unique identifier for each type of
attribute (see below).
The most significant bit of this field is the Attribute Format
bit (AF). It indicates whether the data attributes follow the
Type/Length/Value (TLV) format or a shortened Type/Value (TV)
format. If the AF bit is zero (0), then the Data Attributes
are of the Type/Length/Value (TLV) form. If the AF bit is a
one (1), then the Data Attributes are of the Type/Value form.
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o Attribute Length (2 octets) - Length in octets of the Attribute
Value. When the AF bit is a one (1), the Attribute Value is
only 2 octets and the Attribute Length field is not present.
o Attribute Value (variable length) - Value of the Attribute
associated with the Attribute Type. If the AF bit is a zero
(0), this field has a variable length defined by the Attribute
Length field. If the AF bit is a one (1), the Attribute Value
has a length of 2 octets.
Note that only a single attribute type (Key Length) is defined, and
it is fixed length. The variable-length encoding specification is
included only for future extensions. The only algorithms defined in
this document that accept attributes are the AES-based encryption,
integrity, and pseudo-random functions, which require a single
attribute specifying key width.
Attributes described as basic MUST NOT be encoded using the
variable-length encoding. Variable-length attributes MUST NOT be
encoded as basic even if their value can fit into two octets. NOTE:
This is a change from IKEv1, where increased flexibility may have
simplified the composer of messages but certainly complicated the
parser.
Attribute Type Value Attribute Format
--------------------------------------------------------------
RESERVED 0-13 Key Length (in bits)
14 TV RESERVED 15-17
RESERVED TO IANA 18-16383 PRIVATE USE
16384-32767
Values 0-13 and 15-17 were used in a similar context in IKEv1 and
should not be assigned except to matching values. Values 18-16383
are reserved to IANA. Values 16384-32767 are for private use among
mutually consenting parties.
- Key Length
When using an Encryption Algorithm that has a variable-length key,
this attribute specifies the key length in bits (MUST use network
byte order). This attribute MUST NOT be used when the specified
Encryption Algorithm uses a fixed-length key.
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3.3.6. Attribute Negotiation
During security association negotiation, initiators present offers to
responders. Responders MUST select a single complete set of
parameters from the offers (or reject all offers if none are
acceptable). If there are multiple proposals, the responder MUST
choose a single proposal number and return all of the Proposal
substructures with that Proposal number. If there are multiple
Transforms with the same type, the responder MUST choose a single
one. Any attributes of a selected transform MUST be returned
unmodified. The initiator of an exchange MUST check that the
accepted offer is consistent with one of its proposals, and if not
that response MUST be rejected.
Negotiating Diffie-Hellman groups presents some special challenges.
SA offers include proposed attributes and a Diffie-Hellman public
number (KE) in the same message. If in the initial exchange the
initiator offers to use one of several Diffie-Hellman groups, it
SHOULD pick the one the responder is most likely to accept and
include a KE corresponding to that group. If the guess turns out to
be wrong, the responder will indicate the correct group in the
response and the initiator SHOULD pick an element of that group for
its KE value when retrying the first message. It SHOULD, however,
continue to propose its full supported set of groups in order to
prevent a man-in-the-middle downgrade attack.
Implementation Note:
Certain negotiable attributes can have ranges or could have
multiple acceptable values. These include the key length of a
variable key length symmetric cipher. To further interoperability
and to support upgrading endpoints independently, implementers of
this protocol SHOULD accept values that they deem to supply
greater security. For instance, if a peer is configured to accept
a variable-length cipher with a key length of X bits and is
offered that cipher with a larger key length, the implementation
SHOULD accept the offer if it supports use of the longer key.
Support of this capability allows an implementation to express a
concept of "at least" a certain level of security -- "a key length of
_at least_ X bits for cipher Y".
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3.4. Key Exchange Payload
The Key Exchange Payload, denoted KE in this memo, is used to
exchange Diffie-Hellman public numbers as part of a Diffie-Hellman
key exchange. The Key Exchange Payload consists of the IKE generic
payload header followed by the Diffie-Hellman public value itself.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! DH Group # ! RESERVED !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Key Exchange Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 10: Key Exchange Payload Format
A key exchange payload is constructed by copying one's Diffie-Hellman
public value into the "Key Exchange Data" portion of the payload.
The length of the Diffie-Hellman public value MUST be equal to the
length of the prime modulus over which the exponentiation was
performed, prepending zero bits to the value if necessary.
The DH Group # identifies the Diffie-Hellman group in which the Key
Exchange Data was computed (see section 3.3.2). If the selected
proposal uses a different Diffie-Hellman group, the message MUST be
rejected with a Notify payload of type INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD.
The payload type for the Key Exchange payload is thirty four (34).
3.5. Identification Payloads
The Identification Payloads, denoted IDi and IDr in this memo, allow
peers to assert an identity to one another. This identity may be
used for policy lookup, but does not necessarily have to match
anything in the CERT payload; both fields may be used by an
implementation to perform access control decisions.
NOTE: In IKEv1, two ID payloads were used in each direction to hold
Traffic Selector (TS) information for data passing over the SA. In
IKEv2, this information is carried in TS payloads (see section 3.13).
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The Identification Payload consists of the IKE generic payload header
followed by identification fields as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! ID Type ! RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Identification Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 11: Identification Payload Format
o ID Type (1 octet) - Specifies the type of Identification being
used.
o RESERVED - MUST be sent as zero; MUST be ignored on receipt.
o Identification Data (variable length) - Value, as indicated by the
Identification Type. The length of the Identification Data is
computed from the size in the ID payload header.
The payload types for the Identification Payload are thirty five (35)
for IDi and thirty six (36) for IDr.
The following table lists the assigned values for the Identification
Type field, followed by a description of the Identification Data
which follows:
ID Type Value
------- -----
RESERVED 0
ID_IPV4_ADDR 1
A single four (4) octet IPv4 address.
ID_FQDN 2
A fully-qualified domain name string. An example of a
ID_FQDN is, "example.com". The string MUST not contain any
terminators (e.g., NULL, CR, etc.).
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ID_RFC822_ADDR 3
A fully-qualified RFC822 email address string, An example of
a ID_RFC822_ADDR is, "jsmith@example.com". The string MUST
not contain any terminators.
Reserved to IANA 4
ID_IPV6_ADDR 5
A single sixteen (16) octet IPv6 address.
Reserved to IANA 6 - 8
ID_DER_ASN1_DN 9
The binary Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) encoding of an
ASN.1 X.500 Distinguished Name [X.501].
ID_DER_ASN1_GN 10
The binary DER encoding of an ASN.1 X.500 GeneralName
[X.509].
ID_KEY_ID 11
An opaque octet stream which may be used to pass vendor-
specific information necessary to do certain proprietary
types of identification.
Reserved to IANA 12-200
Reserved for private use 201-255
Two implementations will interoperate only if each can generate a
type of ID acceptable to the other. To assure maximum
interoperability, implementations MUST be configurable to send at
least one of ID_IPV4_ADDR, ID_FQDN, ID_RFC822_ADDR, or ID_KEY_ID, and
MUST be configurable to accept all of these types. Implementations
SHOULD be capable of generating and accepting all of these types.
IPv6-capable implementations MUST additionally be configurable to
accept ID_IPV6_ADDR. IPv6-only implementations MAY be configurable
to send only ID_IPV6_ADDR.
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3.6. Certificate Payload
The Certificate Payload, denoted CERT in this memo, provides a means
to transport certificates or other authentication-related information
via IKE. Certificate payloads SHOULD be included in an exchange if
certificates are available to the sender unless the peer has
indicated an ability to retrieve this information from elsewhere
using an HTTP_CERT_LOOKUP_SUPPORTED Notify payload. Note that the
term "Certificate Payload" is somewhat misleading, because not all
authentication mechanisms use certificates and data other than
certificates may be passed in this payload.
The Certificate Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Cert Encoding ! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ !
~ Certificate Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 12: Certificate Payload Format
o Certificate Encoding (1 octet) - This field indicates the type
of certificate or certificate-related information contained in
the Certificate Data field.
Certificate Encoding Value
-------------------- -----
RESERVED 0
PKCS #7 wrapped X.509 certificate 1
PGP Certificate 2
DNS Signed Key 3
X.509 Certificate - Signature 4
Kerberos Token 6
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) 7
Authority Revocation List (ARL) 8
SPKI Certificate 9
X.509 Certificate - Attribute 10
Raw RSA Key 11
Hash and URL of X.509 certificate 12
Hash and URL of X.509 bundle 13
RESERVED to IANA 14 - 200
PRIVATE USE 201 - 255
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o Certificate Data (variable length) - Actual encoding of
certificate data. The type of certificate is indicated by the
Certificate Encoding field.
The payload type for the Certificate Payload is thirty seven (37).
Specific syntax is for some of the certificate type codes above is
not defined in this document. The types whose syntax is defined in
this document are:
X.509 Certificate - Signature (4) contains a DER encoded X.509
certificate whose public key is used to validate the sender's AUTH
payload.
Certificate Revocation List (7) contains a DER encoded X.509
certificate revocation list.
Raw RSA Key (11) contains a PKCS #1 encoded RSA key (see [RSA] and
[PKCS1]).
Hash and URL encodings (12-13) allow IKE messages to remain short
by replacing long data structures with a 20 octet SHA-1 hash (see
[SHA]) of the replaced value followed by a variable-length URL
that resolves to the DER encoded data structure itself. This
improves efficiency when the endpoints have certificate data
cached and makes IKE less subject to denial of service attacks
that become easier to mount when IKE messages are large enough to
require IP fragmentation [KPS03].
Use the following ASN.1 definition for an X.509 bundle:
CertBundle
{ iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1)
security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) id-mod(0)
id-mod-cert-bundle(34) }
DEFINITIONS EXPLICIT TAGS ::=
BEGIN
IMPORTS
Certificate, CertificateList
FROM PKIX1Explicit88
{ iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6)
internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7)
id-mod(0) id-pkix1-explicit(18) } ;
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CertificateOrCRL ::= CHOICE {
cert [0] Certificate,
crl [1] CertificateList }
CertificateBundle ::= SEQUENCE OF CertificateOrCRL
END
Implementations MUST be capable of being configured to send and
accept up to four X.509 certificates in support of authentication,
and also MUST be capable of being configured to send and accept the
first two Hash and URL formats (with HTTP URLs). Implementations
SHOULD be capable of being configured to send and accept Raw RSA
keys. If multiple certificates are sent, the first certificate MUST
contain the public key used to sign the AUTH payload. The other
certificates may be sent in any order.
3.7. Certificate Request Payload
The Certificate Request Payload, denoted CERTREQ in this memo,
provides a means to request preferred certificates via IKE and can
appear in the IKE_INIT_SA response and/or the IKE_AUTH request.
Certificate Request payloads MAY be included in an exchange when the
sender needs to get the certificate of the receiver. If multiple CAs
are trusted and the cert encoding does not allow a list, then
multiple Certificate Request payloads SHOULD be transmitted.
The Certificate Request Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Cert Encoding ! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ !
~ Certification Authority ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 13: Certificate Request Payload Format
o Certificate Encoding (1 octet) - Contains an encoding of the type
or format of certificate requested. Values are listed in section
3.6.
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o Certification Authority (variable length) - Contains an encoding
of an acceptable certification authority for the type of
certificate requested.
The payload type for the Certificate Request Payload is thirty eight
(38).
The Certificate Encoding field has the same values as those defined
in section 3.6. The Certification Authority field contains an
indicator of trusted authorities for this certificate type. The
Certification Authority value is a concatenated list of SHA-1 hashes
of the public keys of trusted Certification Authorities (CAs). Each
is encoded as the SHA-1 hash of the Subject Public Key Info element
(see section 4.1.2.7 of [RFC3280]) from each Trust Anchor
certificate. The twenty-octet hashes are concatenated and included
with no other formatting.
Note that the term "Certificate Request" is somewhat misleading, in
that values other than certificates are defined in a "Certificate"
payload and requests for those values can be present in a Certificate
Request Payload. The syntax of the Certificate Request payload in
such cases is not defined in this document.
The Certificate Request Payload is processed by inspecting the "Cert
Encoding" field to determine whether the processor has any
certificates of this type. If so, the "Certification Authority"
field is inspected to determine if the processor has any certificates
that can be validated up to one of the specified certification
authorities. This can be a chain of certificates.
If an end-entity certificate exists that satisfies the criteria
specified in the CERTREQ, a certificate or certificate chain SHOULD
be sent back to the certificate requestor if the recipient of the
CERTREQ:
- is configured to use certificate authentication,
- is allowed to send a CERT payload,
- has matching CA trust policy governing the current negotiation, and
- has at least one time-wise and usage appropriate end-entity
certificate chaining to a CA provided in the CERTREQ.
Certificate revocation checking must be considered during the
chaining process used to select a certificate. Note that even if two
peers are configured to use two different CAs, cross-certification
relationships should be supported by appropriate selection logic.
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The intent is not to prevent communication through the strict
adherence of selection of a certificate based on CERTREQ, when an
alternate certificate could be selected by the sender that would
still enable the recipient to successfully validate and trust it
through trust conveyed by cross-certification, CRLs, or other out-
of-band configured means. Thus, the processing of a CERTREQ should
be seen as a suggestion for a certificate to select, not a mandated
one. If no certificates exist, then the CERTREQ is ignored. This is
not an error condition of the protocol. There may be cases where
there is a preferred CA sent in the CERTREQ, but an alternate might
be acceptable (perhaps after prompting a human operator).
3.8. Authentication Payload
The Authentication Payload, denoted AUTH in this memo, contains data
used for authentication purposes. The syntax of the Authentication
data varies according to the Auth Method as specified below.
The Authentication Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Auth Method ! RESERVED !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Authentication Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 14: Authentication Payload Format
o Auth Method (1 octet) - Specifies the method of authentication
used. Values defined are:
RSA Digital Signature (1) - Computed as specified in section
2.15 using an RSA private key over a PKCS#1 padded hash (see
[RSA] and [PKCS1]).
Shared Key Message Integrity Code (2) - Computed as specified in
section 2.15 using the shared key associated with the identity
in the ID payload and the negotiated prf function
DSS Digital Signature (3) - Computed as specified in section
2.15 using a DSS private key (see [DSS]) over a SHA-1 hash.
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The values 0 and 4-200 are reserved to IANA. The values 201-255
are available for private use.
o Authentication Data (variable length) - see section 2.15.
The payload type for the Authentication Payload is thirty nine (39).
3.9. Nonce Payload
The Nonce Payload, denoted Ni and Nr in this memo for the initiator's
and responder's nonce respectively, contains random data used to
guarantee liveness during an exchange and protect against replay
attacks.
The Nonce Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Nonce Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 15: Nonce Payload Format
o Nonce Data (variable length) - Contains the random data generated
by the transmitting entity.
The payload type for the Nonce Payload is forty (40).
The size of a Nonce MUST be between 16 and 256 octets inclusive.
Nonce values MUST NOT be reused.
3.10. Notify Payload
The Notify Payload, denoted N in this document, is used to transmit
informational data, such as error conditions and state transitions,
to an IKE peer. A Notify Payload may appear in a response message
(usually specifying why a request was rejected), in an INFORMATIONAL
Exchange (to report an error not in an IKE request), or in any other
message to indicate sender capabilities or to modify the meaning of
the request.
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The Notify Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Protocol ID ! SPI Size ! Notify Message Type !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Security Parameter Index (SPI) ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Notification Data ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 16: Notify Payload Format
o Protocol ID (1 octet) - If this notification concerns an existing
SA, this field indicates the type of that SA. For IKE_SA
notifications, this field MUST be one (1). For notifications
concerning IPsec SAs this field MUST contain either (2) to
indicate AH or (3) to indicate ESP. For notifications that do not
relate to an existing SA, this field MUST be sent as zero and MUST
be ignored on receipt. All other values for this field are
reserved to IANA for future assignment.
o SPI Size (1 octet) - Length in octets of the SPI as defined by the
IPsec protocol ID or zero if no SPI is applicable. For a
notification concerning the IKE_SA, the SPI Size MUST be zero.
o Notify Message Type (2 octets) - Specifies the type of
notification message.
o SPI (variable length) - Security Parameter Index.
o Notification Data (variable length) - Informational or error data
transmitted in addition to the Notify Message Type. Values for
this field are type specific (see below).
The payload type for the Notify Payload is forty one (41).
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3.10.1. Notify Message Types
Notification information can be error messages specifying why an SA
could not be established. It can also be status data that a process
managing an SA database wishes to communicate with a peer process.
The table below lists the Notification messages and their
corresponding values. The number of different error statuses was
greatly reduced from IKEv1 both for simplification and to avoid
giving configuration information to probers.
Types in the range 0 - 16383 are intended for reporting errors. An
implementation receiving a Notify payload with one of these types
that it does not recognize in a response MUST assume that the
corresponding request has failed entirely. Unrecognized error types
in a request and status types in a request or response MUST be
ignored except that they SHOULD be logged.
Notify payloads with status types MAY be added to any message and
MUST be ignored if not recognized. They are intended to indicate
capabilities, and as part of SA negotiation are used to negotiate
non-cryptographic parameters.
NOTIFY MESSAGES - ERROR TYPES Value
----------------------------- -----
RESERVED 0
UNSUPPORTED_CRITICAL_PAYLOAD 1
Sent if the payload has the "critical" bit set and the
payload type is not recognized. Notification Data contains
the one-octet payload type.
INVALID_IKE_SPI 4
Indicates an IKE message was received with an unrecognized
destination SPI. This usually indicates that the recipient
has rebooted and forgotten the existence of an IKE_SA.
INVALID_MAJOR_VERSION 5
Indicates the recipient cannot handle the version of IKE
specified in the header. The closest version number that
the recipient can support will be in the reply header.
INVALID_SYNTAX 7
Indicates the IKE message that was received was invalid
because some type, length, or value was out of range or
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because the request was rejected for policy reasons. To
avoid a denial of service attack using forged messages, this
status may only be returned for and in an encrypted packet
if the message ID and cryptographic checksum were valid. To
avoid leaking information to someone probing a node, this
status MUST be sent in response to any error not covered by
one of the other status types. To aid debugging, more
detailed error information SHOULD be written to a console or
log.
INVALID_MESSAGE_ID 9
Sent when an IKE message ID outside the supported window is
received. This Notify MUST NOT be sent in a response; the
invalid request MUST NOT be acknowledged. Instead, inform
the other side by initiating an INFORMATIONAL exchange with
Notification data containing the four octet invalid message
ID. Sending this notification is optional, and
notifications of this type MUST be rate limited.
INVALID_SPI 11
MAY be sent in an IKE INFORMATIONAL exchange when a node
receives an ESP or AH packet with an invalid SPI. The
Notification Data contains the SPI of the invalid packet.
This usually indicates a node has rebooted and forgotten an
SA. If this Informational Message is sent outside the
context of an IKE_SA, it should be used by the recipient
only as a "hint" that something might be wrong (because it
could easily be forged).
NO_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN 14
None of the proposed crypto suites was acceptable.
INVALID_KE_PAYLOAD 17
The D-H Group # field in the KE payload is not the group #
selected by the responder for this exchange. There are two
octets of data associated with this notification: the
accepted D-H Group # in big endian order.
AUTHENTICATION_FAILED 24
Sent in the response to an IKE_AUTH message when for some
reason the authentication failed. There is no associated
data.
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SINGLE_PAIR_REQUIRED 34
This error indicates that a CREATE_CHILD_SA request is
unacceptable because its sender is only willing to accept
traffic selectors specifying a single pair of addresses. The
requestor is expected to respond by requesting an SA for only
the specific traffic it is trying to forward.
NO_ADDITIONAL_SAS 35
This error indicates that a CREATE_CHILD_SA request is
unacceptable because the responder is unwilling to accept any
more CHILD_SAs on this IKE_SA. Some minimal implementations may
only accept a single CHILD_SA setup in the context of an initial
IKE exchange and reject any subsequent attempts to add more.
INTERNAL_ADDRESS_FAILURE 36
Indicates an error assigning an internal address (i.e.,
INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS or INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS) during the
processing of a Configuration Payload by a responder. If this
error is generated within an IKE_AUTH exchange, no CHILD_SA will
be created.
FAILED_CP_REQUIRED 37
Sent by responder in the case where CP(CFG_REQUEST) was expected
but not received, and so is a conflict with locally configured
policy. There is no associated data.
TS_UNACCEPTABLE 38
Indicates that none of the addresses/protocols/ports in the
supplied traffic selectors is acceptable.
INVALID_SELECTORS 39
MAY be sent in an IKE INFORMATIONAL exchange when a node
receives an ESP or AH packet whose selectors do not match
those of the SA on which it was delivered (and that caused
the packet to be dropped). The Notification Data contains
the start of the offending packet (as in ICMP messages) and
the SPI field of the notification is set to match the SPI of
the IPsec SA.
RESERVED TO IANA - Error types 40 - 8191
Private Use - Errors 8192 - 16383
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NOTIFY MESSAGES - STATUS TYPES Value
------------------------------ -----
INITIAL_CONTACT 16384
This notification asserts that this IKE_SA is the only
IKE_SA currently active between the authenticated
identities. It MAY be sent when an IKE_SA is established
after a crash, and the recipient MAY use this information to
delete any other IKE_SAs it has to the same authenticated
identity without waiting for a timeout. This notification
MUST NOT be sent by an entity that may be replicated (e.g.,
a roaming user's credentials where the user is allowed to
connect to the corporate firewall from two remote systems at
the same time).
SET_WINDOW_SIZE 16385
This notification asserts that the sending endpoint is
capable of keeping state for multiple outstanding exchanges,
permitting the recipient to send multiple requests before
getting a response to the first. The data associated with a
SET_WINDOW_SIZE notification MUST be 4 octets long and
contain the big endian representation of the number of
messages the sender promises to keep. Window size is always
one until the initial exchanges complete.
ADDITIONAL_TS_POSSIBLE 16386
This notification asserts that the sending endpoint narrowed
the proposed traffic selectors but that other traffic
selectors would also have been acceptable, though only in a
separate SA (see section 2.9). There is no data associated
with this Notify type. It may be sent only as an additional
payload in a message including accepted TSs.
IPCOMP_SUPPORTED 16387
This notification may be included only in a message
containing an SA payload negotiating a CHILD_SA and
indicates a willingness by its sender to use IPComp on this
SA. The data associated with this notification includes a
two-octet IPComp CPI followed by a one-octet transform ID
optionally followed by attributes whose length and format
are defined by that transform ID. A message proposing an SA
may contain multiple IPCOMP_SUPPORTED notifications to
indicate multiple supported algorithms. A message accepting
an SA may contain at most one.
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The transform IDs currently defined are:
NAME NUMBER DEFINED IN
----------- ------ -----------
RESERVED 0
IPCOMP_OUI 1
IPCOMP_DEFLATE 2 RFC 2394
IPCOMP_LZS 3 RFC 2395
IPCOMP_LZJH 4 RFC 3051
values 5-240 are reserved to IANA. Values 241-255 are
for private use among mutually consenting parties.
NAT_DETECTION_SOURCE_IP 16388
This notification is used by its recipient to determine
whether the source is behind a NAT box. The data associated
with this notification is a SHA-1 digest of the SPIs (in the
order they appear in the header), IP address, and port on
which this packet was sent. There MAY be multiple Notify
payloads of this type in a message if the sender does not
know which of several network attachments will be used to
send the packet. The recipient of this notification MAY
compare the supplied value to a SHA-1 hash of the SPIs,
source IP address, and port, and if they don't match it
SHOULD enable NAT traversal (see section 2.23).
Alternately, it MAY reject the connection attempt if NAT
traversal is not supported.
NAT_DETECTION_DESTINATION_IP 16389
This notification is used by its recipient to determine
whether it is behind a NAT box. The data associated with
this notification is a SHA-1 digest of the SPIs (in the
order they appear in the header), IP address, and port to
which this packet was sent. The recipient of this
notification MAY compare the supplied value to a hash of the
SPIs, destination IP address, and port, and if they don't
match it SHOULD invoke NAT traversal (see section 2.23). If
they don't match, it means that this end is behind a NAT and
this end SHOULD start sending keepalive packets as defined
in [Hutt05]. Alternately, it MAY reject the connection
attempt if NAT traversal is not supported.
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COOKIE 16390
This notification MAY be included in an IKE_SA_INIT
response. It indicates that the request should be retried
with a copy of this notification as the first payload. This
notification MUST be included in an IKE_SA_INIT request
retry if a COOKIE notification was included in the initial
response. The data associated with this notification MUST
be between 1 and 64 octets in length (inclusive).
USE_TRANSPORT_MODE 16391
This notification MAY be included in a request message that
also includes an SA payload requesting a CHILD_SA. It
requests that the CHILD_SA use transport mode rather than
tunnel mode for the SA created. If the request is accepted,
the response MUST also include a notification of type
USE_TRANSPORT_MODE. If the responder declines the request,
the CHILD_SA will be established in tunnel mode. If this is
unacceptable to the initiator, the initiator MUST delete the
SA. Note: Except when using this option to negotiate
transport mode, all CHILD_SAs will use tunnel mode.
Note: The ECN decapsulation modifications specified in
[RFC4301] MUST be performed for every tunnel mode SA created
by IKEv2.
HTTP_CERT_LOOKUP_SUPPORTED 16392
This notification MAY be included in any message that can
include a CERTREQ payload and indicates that the sender is
capable of looking up certificates based on an HTTP-based
URL (and hence presumably would prefer to receive
certificate specifications in that format).
REKEY_SA 16393
This notification MUST be included in a CREATE_CHILD_SA
exchange if the purpose of the exchange is to replace an
existing ESP or AH SA. The SPI field identifies the SA
being rekeyed. There is no data.
ESP_TFC_PADDING_NOT_SUPPORTED 16394
This notification asserts that the sending endpoint will NOT
accept packets that contain Flow Confidentiality (TFC)
padding.
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NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO 16395
Used for fragmentation control. See [RFC4301] for
explanation.
RESERVED TO IANA - STATUS TYPES 16396 - 40959
Private Use - STATUS TYPES 40960 - 65535
3.11. Delete Payload
The Delete Payload, denoted D in this memo, contains a protocol-
specific security association identifier that the sender has removed
from its security association database and is, therefore, no longer
valid. Figure 17 shows the format of the Delete Payload. It is
possible to send multiple SPIs in a Delete payload; however, each SPI
MUST be for the same protocol. Mixing of protocol identifiers MUST
NOT be performed in a Delete payload. It is permitted, however, to
include multiple Delete payloads in a single INFORMATIONAL exchange
where each Delete payload lists SPIs for a different protocol.
Deletion of the IKE_SA is indicated by a protocol ID of 1 (IKE) but
no SPIs. Deletion of a CHILD_SA, such as ESP or AH, will contain the
IPsec protocol ID of that protocol (2 for AH, 3 for ESP), and the SPI
is the SPI the sending endpoint would expect in inbound ESP or AH
packets.
The Delete Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Protocol ID ! SPI Size ! # of SPIs !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Security Parameter Index(es) (SPI) ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 17: Delete Payload Format
o Protocol ID (1 octet) - Must be 1 for an IKE_SA, 2 for AH, or 3
for ESP.
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o SPI Size (1 octet) - Length in octets of the SPI as defined by the
protocol ID. It MUST be zero for IKE (SPI is in message header)
or four for AH and ESP.
o # of SPIs (2 octets) - The number of SPIs contained in the Delete
payload. The size of each SPI is defined by the SPI Size field.
o Security Parameter Index(es) (variable length) - Identifies the
specific security association(s) to delete. The length of this
field is determined by the SPI Size and # of SPIs fields.
The payload type for the Delete Payload is forty two (42).
3.12. Vendor ID Payload
The Vendor ID Payload, denoted V in this memo, contains a vendor
defined constant. The constant is used by vendors to identify and
recognize remote instances of their implementations. This mechanism
allows a vendor to experiment with new features while maintaining
backward compatibility.
A Vendor ID payload MAY announce that the sender is capable to
accepting certain extensions to the protocol, or it MAY simply
identify the implementation as an aid in debugging. A Vendor ID
payload MUST NOT change the interpretation of any information defined
in this specification (i.e., the critical bit MUST be set to 0).
Multiple Vendor ID payloads MAY be sent. An implementation is NOT
REQUIRED to send any Vendor ID payload at all.
A Vendor ID payload may be sent as part of any message. Reception of
a familiar Vendor ID payload allows an implementation to make use of
Private USE numbers described throughout this memo -- private
payloads, private exchanges, private notifications, etc. Unfamiliar
Vendor IDs MUST be ignored.
Writers of Internet-Drafts who wish to extend this protocol MUST
define a Vendor ID payload to announce the ability to implement the
extension in the Internet-Draft. It is expected that Internet-Drafts
that gain acceptance and are standardized will be given "magic
numbers" out of the Future Use range by IANA, and the requirement to
use a Vendor ID will go away.
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The Vendor ID Payload fields are defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Vendor ID (VID) ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 18: Vendor ID Payload Format
o Vendor ID (variable length) - It is the responsibility of the
person choosing the Vendor ID to assure its uniqueness in spite of
the absence of any central registry for IDs. Good practice is to
include a company name, a person name, or some such. If you want
to show off, you might include the latitude and longitude and time
where you were when you chose the ID and some random input. A
message digest of a long unique string is preferable to the long
unique string itself.
The payload type for the Vendor ID Payload is forty three (43).
3.13. Traffic Selector Payload
The Traffic Selector Payload, denoted TS in this memo, allows peers
to identify packet flows for processing by IPsec security services.
The Traffic Selector Payload consists of the IKE generic payload
header followed by individual traffic selectors as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Number of TSs ! RESERVED !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ <Traffic Selectors> ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 19: Traffic Selectors Payload Format
o Number of TSs (1 octet) - Number of traffic selectors being
provided.
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o RESERVED - This field MUST be sent as zero and MUST be ignored on
receipt.
o Traffic Selectors (variable length) - One or more individual
traffic selectors.
The length of the Traffic Selector payload includes the TS header and
all the traffic selectors.
The payload type for the Traffic Selector payload is forty four (44)
for addresses at the initiator's end of the SA and forty five (45)
for addresses at the responder's end.
3.13.1. Traffic Selector
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! TS Type !IP Protocol ID*| Selector Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Start Port* | End Port* |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Starting Address* ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Ending Address* ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 20: Traffic Selector
* Note: All fields other than TS Type and Selector Length depend on
the TS Type. The fields shown are for TS Types 7 and 8, the only two
values currently defined.
o TS Type (one octet) - Specifies the type of traffic selector.
o IP protocol ID (1 octet) - Value specifying an associated IP
protocol ID (e.g., UDP/TCP/ICMP). A value of zero means that the
protocol ID is not relevant to this traffic selector -- the SA can
carry all protocols.
o Selector Length - Specifies the length of this Traffic Selector
Substructure including the header.
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o Start Port (2 octets) - Value specifying the smallest port number
allowed by this Traffic Selector. For protocols for which port is
undefined, or if all ports are allowed, this field MUST be zero.
For the ICMP protocol, the two one-octet fields Type and Code are
treated as a single 16-bit integer (with Type in the most
significant eight bits and Code in the least significant eight
bits) port number for the purposes of filtering based on this
field.
o End Port (2 octets) - Value specifying the largest port number
allowed by this Traffic Selector. For protocols for which port is
undefined, or if all ports are allowed, this field MUST be 65535.
For the ICMP protocol, the two one-octet fields Type and Code are
treated as a single 16-bit integer (with Type in the most
significant eight bits and Code in the least significant eight
bits) port number for the purposed of filtering based on this
field.
o Starting Address - The smallest address included in this Traffic
Selector (length determined by TS type).
o Ending Address - The largest address included in this Traffic
Selector (length determined by TS type).
Systems that are complying with [RFC4301] that wish to indicate "ANY"
ports MUST set the start port to 0 and the end port to 65535; note
that according to [RFC4301], "ANY" includes "OPAQUE". Systems
working with [RFC4301] that wish to indicate "OPAQUE" ports, but not
"ANY" ports, MUST set the start port to 65535 and the end port to 0.
The following table lists the assigned values for the Traffic
Selector Type field and the corresponding Address Selector Data.
TS Type Value
------- -----
RESERVED 0-6
TS_IPV4_ADDR_RANGE 7
A range of IPv4 addresses, represented by two four-octet
values. The first value is the beginning IPv4 address
(inclusive) and the second value is the ending IPv4 address
(inclusive). All addresses falling between the two
specified addresses are considered to be within the list.
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TS_IPV6_ADDR_RANGE 8
A range of IPv6 addresses, represented by two sixteen-octet
values. The first value is the beginning IPv6 address
(inclusive) and the second value is the ending IPv6 address
(inclusive). All addresses falling between the two
specified addresses are considered to be within the list.
RESERVED TO IANA 9-240
PRIVATE USE 241-255
3.14. Encrypted Payload
The Encrypted Payload, denoted SK{...} or E in this memo, contains
other payloads in encrypted form. The Encrypted Payload, if present
in a message, MUST be the last payload in the message. Often, it is
the only payload in the message.
The algorithms for encryption and integrity protection are negotiated
during IKE_SA setup, and the keys are computed as specified in
sections 2.14 and 2.18.
The encryption and integrity protection algorithms are modeled after
the ESP algorithms described in RFCs 2104 [KBC96], 4303 [RFC4303],
and 2451 [ESPCBC]. This document completely specifies the
cryptographic processing of IKE data, but those documents should be
consulted for design rationale. We require a block cipher with a
fixed block size and an integrity check algorithm that computes a
fixed-length checksum over a variable size message.
The payload type for an Encrypted payload is forty six (46). The
Encrypted Payload consists of the IKE generic payload header followed
by individual fields as follows:
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Initialization Vector !
! (length is block size for encryption algorithm) !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
~ Encrypted IKE Payloads ~
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! ! Padding (0-255 octets) !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! ! Pad Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
~ Integrity Checksum Data ~
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 21: Encrypted Payload Format
o Next Payload - The payload type of the first embedded payload.
Note that this is an exception in the standard header format,
since the Encrypted payload is the last payload in the message and
therefore the Next Payload field would normally be zero. But
because the content of this payload is embedded payloads and there
was no natural place to put the type of the first one, that type
is placed here.
o Payload Length - Includes the lengths of the header, IV, Encrypted
IKE Payloads, Padding, Pad Length, and Integrity Checksum Data.
o Initialization Vector - A randomly chosen value whose length is
equal to the block length of the underlying encryption algorithm.
Recipients MUST accept any value. Senders SHOULD either pick this
value pseudo-randomly and independently for each message or use
the final ciphertext block of the previous message sent. Senders
MUST NOT use the same value for each message, use a sequence of
values with low hamming distance (e.g., a sequence number), or use
ciphertext from a received message.
o IKE Payloads are as specified earlier in this section. This field
is encrypted with the negotiated cipher.
o Padding MAY contain any value chosen by the sender, and MUST have
a length that makes the combination of the Payloads, the Padding,
and the Pad Length to be a multiple of the encryption block size.
This field is encrypted with the negotiated cipher.
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o Pad Length is the length of the Padding field. The sender SHOULD
set the Pad Length to the minimum value that makes the combination
of the Payloads, the Padding, and the Pad Length a multiple of the
block size, but the recipient MUST accept any length that results
in proper alignment. This field is encrypted with the negotiated
cipher.
o Integrity Checksum Data is the cryptographic checksum of the
entire message starting with the Fixed IKE Header through the Pad
Length. The checksum MUST be computed over the encrypted message.
Its length is determined by the integrity algorithm negotiated.
3.15. Configuration Payload
The Configuration payload, denoted CP in this document, is used to
exchange configuration information between IKE peers. The exchange
is for an IRAC to request an internal IP address from an IRAS and to
exchange other information of the sort that one would acquire with
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) if the IRAC were directly
connected to a LAN.
Configuration payloads are of type CFG_REQUEST/CFG_REPLY or
CFG_SET/CFG_ACK (see CFG Type in the payload description below).
CFG_REQUEST and CFG_SET payloads may optionally be added to any IKE
request. The IKE response MUST include either a corresponding
CFG_REPLY or CFG_ACK or a Notify payload with an error type
indicating why the request could not be honored. An exception is
that a minimal implementation MAY ignore all CFG_REQUEST and CFG_SET
payloads, so a response message without a corresponding CFG_REPLY or
CFG_ACK MUST be accepted as an indication that the request was not
supported.
"CFG_REQUEST/CFG_REPLY" allows an IKE endpoint to request information
from its peer. If an attribute in the CFG_REQUEST Configuration
Payload is not zero-length, it is taken as a suggestion for that
attribute. The CFG_REPLY Configuration Payload MAY return that
value, or a new one. It MAY also add new attributes and not include
some requested ones. Requestors MUST ignore returned attributes that
they do not recognize.
Some attributes MAY be multi-valued, in which case multiple attribute
values of the same type are sent and/or returned. Generally, all
values of an attribute are returned when the attribute is requested.
For some attributes (in this version of the specification only
internal addresses), multiple requests indicates a request that
multiple values be assigned. For these attributes, the number of
values returned SHOULD NOT exceed the number requested.
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If the data type requested in a CFG_REQUEST is not recognized or not
supported, the responder MUST NOT return an error type but rather
MUST either send a CFG_REPLY that MAY be empty or a reply not
containing a CFG_REPLY payload at all. Error returns are reserved
for cases where the request is recognized but cannot be performed as
requested or the request is badly formatted.
"CFG_SET/CFG_ACK" allows an IKE endpoint to push configuration data
to its peer. In this case, the CFG_SET Configuration Payload
contains attributes the initiator wants its peer to alter. The
responder MUST return a Configuration Payload if it accepted any of
the configuration data and it MUST contain the attributes that the
responder accepted with zero-length data. Those attributes that it
did not accept MUST NOT be in the CFG_ACK Configuration Payload. If
no attributes were accepted, the responder MUST return either an
empty CFG_ACK payload or a response message without a CFG_ACK
payload. There are currently no defined uses for the CFG_SET/CFG_ACK
exchange, though they may be used in connection with extensions based
on Vendor IDs. An minimal implementation of this specification MAY
ignore CFG_SET payloads.
Extensions via the CP payload SHOULD NOT be used for general purpose
management. Its main intent is to provide a bootstrap mechanism to
exchange information within IPsec from IRAS to IRAC. While it MAY be
useful to use such a method to exchange information between some
Security Gateways (SGW) or small networks, existing management
protocols such as DHCP [DHCP], RADIUS [RADIUS], SNMP, or LDAP [LDAP]
should be preferred for enterprise management as well as subsequent
information exchanges.
The Configuration Payload is defined as follows:
1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! CFG Type ! RESERVED !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ Configuration Attributes ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 22: Configuration Payload Format
The payload type for the Configuration Payload is forty seven (47).
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o CFG Type (1 octet) - The type of exchange represented by the
Configuration Attributes.
CFG Type Value
=========== =====
RESERVED 0
CFG_REQUEST 1
CFG_REPLY 2
CFG_SET 3
CFG_ACK 4
values 5-127 are reserved to IANA. Values 128-255 are for private
use among mutually consenting parties.
o RESERVED (3 octets) - MUST be sent as zero; MUST be ignored on
receipt.
o Configuration Attributes (variable length) - These are type length
values specific to the Configuration Payload and are defined
below. There may be zero or more Configuration Attributes in this
payload.
3.15.1. Configuration Attributes
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
!R| Attribute Type ! Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
~ Value ~
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 23: Configuration Attribute Format
o Reserved (1 bit) - This bit MUST be set to zero and MUST be
ignored on receipt.
o Attribute Type (15 bits) - A unique identifier for each of the
Configuration Attribute Types.
o Length (2 octets) - Length in octets of Value.
o Value (0 or more octets) - The variable-length value of this
Configuration Attribute.
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The following attribute types have been defined:
Multi-
Attribute Type Value Valued Length
======================= ===== ====== ==================
RESERVED 0
INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS 1 YES* 0 or 4 octets
INTERNAL_IP4_NETMASK 2 NO 0 or 4 octets
INTERNAL_IP4_DNS 3 YES 0 or 4 octets
INTERNAL_IP4_NBNS 4 YES 0 or 4 octets
INTERNAL_ADDRESS_EXPIRY 5 NO 0 or 4 octets
INTERNAL_IP4_DHCP 6 YES 0 or 4 octets
APPLICATION_VERSION 7 NO 0 or more
INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS 8 YES* 0 or 17 octets
RESERVED 9
INTERNAL_IP6_DNS 10 YES 0 or 16 octets
INTERNAL_IP6_NBNS 11 YES 0 or 16 octets
INTERNAL_IP6_DHCP 12 YES 0 or 16 octets
INTERNAL_IP4_SUBNET 13 YES 0 or 8 octets
SUPPORTED_ATTRIBUTES 14 NO Multiple of 2
INTERNAL_IP6_SUBNET 15 YES 17 octets
* These attributes may be multi-valued on return only if multiple
values were requested.
Types 16-16383 are reserved to IANA. Values 16384-32767 are for
private use among mutually consenting parties.
o INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS, INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS - An address on the
internal network, sometimes called a red node address or
private address and MAY be a private address on the Internet.
In a request message, the address specified is a requested
address (or zero if no specific address is requested). If a
specific address is requested, it likely indicates that a
previous connection existed with this address and the requestor
would like to reuse that address. With IPv6, a requestor MAY
supply the low-order address bytes it wants to use. Multiple
internal addresses MAY be requested by requesting multiple
internal address attributes. The responder MAY only send up to
the number of addresses requested. The INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS is
made up of two fields: the first is a sixteen-octet IPv6
address and the second is a one-octet prefix-length as defined
in [ADDRIPV6].
The requested address is valid until the expiry time defined
with the INTERNAL_ADDRESS EXPIRY attribute or there are no
IKE_SAs between the peers.
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o INTERNAL_IP4_NETMASK - The internal network's netmask. Only
one netmask is allowed in the request and reply messages (e.g.,
255.255.255.0), and it MUST be used only with an
INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS attribute.
o INTERNAL_IP4_DNS, INTERNAL_IP6_DNS - Specifies an address of a
DNS server within the network. Multiple DNS servers MAY be
requested. The responder MAY respond with zero or more DNS
server attributes.
o INTERNAL_IP4_NBNS, INTERNAL_IP6_NBNS - Specifies an address of
a NetBios Name Server (WINS) within the network. Multiple NBNS
servers MAY be requested. The responder MAY respond with zero
or more NBNS server attributes.
o INTERNAL_ADDRESS_EXPIRY - Specifies the number of seconds that
the host can use the internal IP address. The host MUST renew
the IP address before this expiry time. Only one of these
attributes MAY be present in the reply.
o INTERNAL_IP4_DHCP, INTERNAL_IP6_DHCP - Instructs the host to
send any internal DHCP requests to the address contained within
the attribute. Multiple DHCP servers MAY be requested. The
responder MAY respond with zero or more DHCP server attributes.
o APPLICATION_VERSION - The version or application information of
the IPsec host. This is a string of printable ASCII characters
that is NOT null terminated.
o INTERNAL_IP4_SUBNET - The protected sub-networks that this
edge-device protects. This attribute is made up of two fields:
the first is an IP address and the second is a netmask.
Multiple sub-networks MAY be requested. The responder MAY
respond with zero or more sub-network attributes.
o SUPPORTED_ATTRIBUTES - When used within a Request, this
attribute MUST be zero-length and specifies a query to the
responder to reply back with all of the attributes that it
supports. The response contains an attribute that contains a
set of attribute identifiers each in 2 octets. The length
divided by 2 (octets) would state the number of supported
attributes contained in the response.
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o INTERNAL_IP6_SUBNET - The protected sub-networks that this
edge-device protects. This attribute is made up of two fields:
the first is a sixteen-octet IPv6 address and the second is a
one-octet prefix-length as defined in [ADDRIPV6]. Multiple
sub-networks MAY be requested. The responder MAY respond with
zero or more sub-network attributes.
Note that no recommendations are made in this document as to how
an implementation actually figures out what information to send in
a reply. That is, we do not recommend any specific method of an
IRAS determining which DNS server should be returned to a
requesting IRAC.
3.16. Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Payload
The Extensible Authentication Protocol Payload, denoted EAP in this
memo, allows IKE_SAs to be authenticated using the protocol defined
in RFC 3748 [EAP] and subsequent extensions to that protocol. The
full set of acceptable values for the payload is defined elsewhere,
but a short summary of RFC 3748 is included here to make this
document stand alone in the common cases.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! !
~ EAP Message ~
! !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 24: EAP Payload Format
The payload type for an EAP Payload is forty eight (48).
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Code ! Identifier ! Length !
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
! Type ! Type_Data...
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Figure 25: EAP Message Format
o Code (1 octet) indicates whether this message is a Request (1),
Response (2), Success (3), or Failure (4).
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o Identifier (1 octet) is used in PPP to distinguish replayed
messages from repeated ones. Since in IKE, EAP runs over a
reliable protocol, it serves no function here. In a response
message, this octet MUST be set to match the identifier in the
corresponding request. In other messages, this field MAY be set
to any value.
o Length (2 octets) is the length of the EAP message and MUST be
four less than the Payload Length of the encapsulating payload.
o Type (1 octet) is present only if the Code field is Request (1) or
Response (2). For other codes, the EAP message length MUST be
four octets and the Type and Type_Data fields MUST NOT be present.
In a Request (1) message, Type indicates the data being requested.
In a Response (2) message, Type MUST either be Nak or match the
type of the data requested. The following types are defined in
RFC 3748:
1 Identity
2 Notification
3 Nak (Response Only)
4 MD5-Challenge
5 One-Time Password (OTP)
6 Generic Token Card
o Type_Data (Variable Length) varies with the Type of Request and
the associated Response. For the documentation of the EAP
methods, see [EAP].
Note that since IKE passes an indication of initiator identity in
message 3 of the protocol, the responder SHOULD NOT send EAP Identity
requests. The initiator SHOULD, however, respond to such requests if
it receives them.
4. Conformance Requirements
In order to assure that all implementations of IKEv2 can
interoperate, there are "MUST support" requirements in addition to
those listed elsewhere. Of course, IKEv2 is a security protocol, and
one of its major functions is to allow only authorized parties to
successfully complete establishment of SAs. So a particular
implementation may be configured with any of a number of restrictions
concerning algorithms and trusted authorities that will prevent
universal interoperability.
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IKEv2 is designed to permit minimal implementations that can
interoperate with all compliant implementations. There are a series
of optional features that can easily be ignored by a particular
implementation if it does not support that feature. Those features
include:
Ability to negotiate SAs through a NAT and tunnel the resulting
ESP SA over UDP.
Ability to request (and respond to a request for) a temporary IP
address on the remote end of a tunnel.
Ability to support various types of legacy authentication.
Ability to support window sizes greater than one.
Ability to establish multiple ESP and/or AH SAs within a single
IKE_SA.
Ability to rekey SAs.
To assure interoperability, all implementations MUST be capable of
parsing all payload types (if only to skip over them) and to ignore
payload types that it does not support unless the critical bit is set
in the payload header. If the critical bit is set in an unsupported
payload header, all implementations MUST reject the messages
containing those payloads.
Every implementation MUST be capable of doing four-message
IKE_SA_INIT and IKE_AUTH exchanges establishing two SAs (one for IKE,
one for ESP and/or AH). Implementations MAY be initiate-only or
respond-only if appropriate for their platform. Every implementation
MUST be capable of responding to an INFORMATIONAL exchange, but a
minimal implementation MAY respond to any INFORMATIONAL message with
an empty INFORMATIONAL reply (note that within the context of an
IKE_SA, an "empty" message consists of an IKE header followed by an
Encrypted payload with no payloads contained in it). A minimal
implementation MAY support the CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange only in so
far as to recognize requests and reject them with a Notify payload of
type NO_ADDITIONAL_SAS. A minimal implementation need not be able to
initiate CREATE_CHILD_SA or INFORMATIONAL exchanges. When an SA
expires (based on locally configured values of either lifetime or
octets passed), and implementation MAY either try to renew it with a
CREATE_CHILD_SA exchange or it MAY delete (close) the old SA and
create a new one. If the responder rejects the CREATE_CHILD_SA
request with a NO_ADDITIONAL_SAS notification, the implementation
MUST be capable of instead closing the old SA and creating a new one.
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Implementations are not required to support requesting temporary IP
addresses or responding to such requests. If an implementation does
support issuing such requests, it MUST include a CP payload in
message 3 containing at least a field of type INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS or
INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS. All other fields are optional. If an
implementation supports responding to such requests, it MUST parse
the CP payload of type CFG_REQUEST in message 3 and recognize a field
of type INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS or INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS. If it supports
leasing an address of the appropriate type, it MUST return a CP
payload of type CFG_REPLY containing an address of the requested
type. The responder SHOULD include all of the other related
attributes if it has them.
A minimal IPv4 responder implementation will ignore the contents of
the CP payload except to determine that it includes an
INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS attribute and will respond with the address and
other related attributes regardless of whether the initiator
requested them.
A minimal IPv4 initiator will generate a CP payload containing only
an INTERNAL_IP4_ADDRESS attribute and will parse the response
ignoring attributes it does not know how to use. The only attribute
it MUST be able to process is INTERNAL_ADDRESS_EXPIRY, which it must
use to bound the lifetime of the SA unless it successfully renews the
lease before it expires. Minimal initiators need not be able to
request lease renewals and minimal responders need not respond to
them.
For an implementation to be called conforming to this specification,
it MUST be possible to configure it to accept the following:
PKIX Certificates containing and signed by RSA keys of size 1024 or
2048 bits, where the ID passed is any of ID_KEY_ID, ID_FQDN,
ID_RFC822_ADDR, or ID_DER_ASN1_DN.
Shared key authentication where the ID passes is any of ID_KEY_ID,
ID_FQDN, or ID_RFC822_ADDR.
Authentication where the responder is authenticated using PKIX
Certificates and the initiator is authenticated using shared key
authentication.
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5. Security Considerations
While this protocol is designed to minimize disclosure of
configuration information to unauthenticated peers, some such
disclosure is unavoidable. One peer or the other must identify
itself first and prove its identity first. To avoid probing, the
initiator of an exchange is required to identify itself first, and
usually is required to authenticate itself first. The initiator can,
however, learn that the responder supports IKE and what cryptographic
protocols it supports. The responder (or someone impersonating the
responder) can probe the initiator not only for its identity, but
using CERTREQ payloads may be able to determine what certificates the
initiator is willing to use.
Use of EAP authentication changes the probing possibilities somewhat.
When EAP authentication is used, the responder proves its identity
before the initiator does, so an initiator that knew the name of a
valid initiator could probe the responder for both its name and
certificates.
Repeated rekeying using CREATE_CHILD_SA without additional Diffie-
Hellman exchanges leaves all SAs vulnerable to cryptanalysis of a
single key or overrun of either endpoint. Implementers should take
note of this fact and set a limit on CREATE_CHILD_SA exchanges
between exponentiations. This memo does not prescribe such a limit.
The strength of a key derived from a Diffie-Hellman exchange using
any of the groups defined here depends on the inherent strength of
the group, the size of the exponent used, and the entropy provided by
the random number generator used. Due to these inputs, it is
difficult to determine the strength of a key for any of the defined
groups. Diffie-Hellman group number two, when used with a strong
random number generator and an exponent no less than 200 bits, is
common for use with 3DES. Group five provides greater security than
group two. Group one is for historic purposes only and does not
provide sufficient strength except for use with DES, which is also
for historic use only. Implementations should make note of these
estimates when establishing policy and negotiating security
parameters.
Note that these limitations are on the Diffie-Hellman groups
themselves. There is nothing in IKE that prohibits using stronger
groups nor is there anything that will dilute the strength obtained
from stronger groups (limited by the strength of the other algorithms
negotiated including the prf function). In fact, the extensible
framework of IKE encourages the definition of more groups; use of
elliptical curve groups may greatly increase strength using much
smaller numbers.
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It is assumed that all Diffie-Hellman exponents are erased from
memory after use. In particular, these exponents MUST NOT be derived
from long-lived secrets like the seed to a pseudo-random generator
that is not erased after use.
The strength of all keys is limited by the size of the output of the
negotiated prf function. For this reason, a prf function whose
output is less than 128 bits (e.g., 3DES-CBC) MUST NOT be used with
this protocol.
The security of this protocol is critically dependent on the
randomness of the randomly chosen parameters. These should be
generated by a strong random or properly seeded pseudo-random source
(see [RFC4086]). Implementers should take care to ensure that use of
random numbers for both keys and nonces is engineered in a fashion
that does not undermine the security of the keys.
For information on the rationale of many of the cryptographic design
choices in this protocol, see [SIGMA] and [SKEME]. Though the
security of negotiated CHILD_SAs does not depend on the strength of
the encryption and integrity protection negotiated in the IKE_SA,
implementations MUST NOT negotiate NONE as the IKE integrity
protection algorithm or ENCR_NULL as the IKE encryption algorithm.
When using pre-shared keys, a critical consideration is how to assure
the randomness of these secrets. The strongest practice is to ensure
that any pre-shared key contain as much randomness as the strongest
key being negotiated. Deriving a shared secret from a password,
name, or other low-entropy source is not secure. These sources are
subject to dictionary and social engineering attacks, among others.
The NAT_DETECTION_*_IP notifications contain a hash of the addresses
and ports in an attempt to hide internal IP addresses behind a NAT.
Since the IPv4 address space is only 32 bits, and it is usually very
sparse, it would be possible for an attacker to find out the internal
address used behind the NAT box by trying all possible IP addresses
and trying to find the matching hash. The port numbers are normally
fixed to 500, and the SPIs can be extracted from the packet. This
reduces the number of hash calculations to 2^32. With an educated
guess of the use of private address space, the number of hash
calculations is much smaller. Designers should therefore not assume
that use of IKE will not leak internal address information.
When using an EAP authentication method that does not generate a
shared key for protecting a subsequent AUTH payload, certain man-in-
the-middle and server impersonation attacks are possible [EAPMITM].
These vulnerabilities occur when EAP is also used in protocols that
are not protected with a secure tunnel. Since EAP is a general-
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purpose authentication protocol, which is often used to provide
single-signon facilities, a deployed IPsec solution that relies on an
EAP authentication method that does not generate a shared key (also
known as a non-key-generating EAP method) can become compromised due
to the deployment of an entirely unrelated application that also
happens to use the same non-key-generating EAP method, but in an
unprotected fashion. Note that this vulnerability is not limited to
just EAP, but can occur in other scenarios where an authentication
infrastructure is reused. For example, if the EAP mechanism used by
IKEv2 utilizes a token authenticator, a man-in-the-middle attacker
could impersonate the web server, intercept the token authentication
exchange, and use it to initiate an IKEv2 connection. For this
reason, use of non-key-generating EAP methods SHOULD be avoided where
possible. Where they are used, it is extremely important that all
usages of these EAP methods SHOULD utilize a protected tunnel, where
the initiator validates the responder's certificate before initiating
the EAP exchange. Implementers SHOULD describe the vulnerabilities
of using non-key-generating EAP methods in the documentation of their
implementations so that the administrators deploying IPsec solutions
are aware of these dangers.
An implementation using EAP MUST also use a public-key-based
authentication of the server to the client before the EAP exchange
begins, even if the EAP method offers mutual authentication. This
avoids having additional IKEv2 protocol variations and protects the
EAP data from active attackers.
If the messages of IKEv2 are long enough that IP-level fragmentation
is necessary, it is possible that attackers could prevent the
exchange from completing by exhausting the reassembly buffers. The
chances of this can be minimized by using the Hash and URL encodings
instead of sending certificates (see section 3.6). Additional
mitigations are discussed in [KPS03].
6. IANA Considerations
This document defines a number of new field types and values where
future assignments will be managed by the IANA.
The following registries have been created by the IANA:
IKEv2 Exchange Types (section 3.1)
IKEv2 Payload Types (section 3.2)
IKEv2 Transform Types (section 3.3.2)
IKEv2 Transform Attribute Types (section 3.3.2)
IKEv2 Encryption Transform IDs (section 3.3.2)
IKEv2 Pseudo-random Function Transform IDs (section 3.3.2)
IKEv2 Integrity Algorithm Transform IDs (section 3.3.2)
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IKEv2 Diffie-Hellman Transform IDs (section 3.3.2)
IKEv2 Identification Payload ID Types (section 3.5)
IKEv2 Certificate Encodings (section 3.6)
IKEv2 Authentication Method (section 3.8)
IKEv2 Notify Message Types (section 3.10.1)
IKEv2 Notification IPCOMP Transform IDs (section 3.10.1)
IKEv2 Security Protocol Identifiers (section 3.3.1)
IKEv2 Traffic Selector Types (section 3.13.1)
IKEv2 Configuration Payload CFG Types (section 3.15)
IKEv2 Configuration Payload Attribute Types (section 3.15.1)
Note: When creating a new Transform Type, a new registry for it must
be created.
Changes and additions to any of those registries are by expert
review.
7. Acknowledgements
This document is a collaborative effort of the entire IPsec WG. If
there were no limit to the number of authors that could appear on an
RFC, the following, in alphabetical order, would have been listed:
Bill Aiello, Stephane Beaulieu, Steve Bellovin, Sara Bitan, Matt
Blaze, Ran Canetti, Darren Dukes, Dan Harkins, Paul Hoffman, John
Ioannidis, Charlie Kaufman, Steve Kent, Angelos Keromytis, Tero
Kivinen, Hugo Krawczyk, Andrew Krywaniuk, Radia Perlman, Omer
Reingold, and Michael Richardson. Many other people contributed to
the design. It is an evolution of IKEv1, ISAKMP, and the IPsec DOI,
each of which has its own list of authors. Hugh Daniel suggested the
feature of having the initiator, in message 3, specify a name for the
responder, and gave the feature the cute name "You Tarzan, Me Jane".
David Faucher and Valery Smyzlov helped refine the design of the
traffic selector negotiation.
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[ADDGROUP] Kivinen, T. and M. Kojo, "More Modular Exponential (MODP)
Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)",
RFC 3526, May 2003.
[ADDRIPV6] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Addressing Architecture", RFC 3513, April 2003.
[Bra97] Bradner, S., "Key Words for use in RFCs to indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
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[EAP] Aboba, B., Blunk, L., Vollbrecht, J., Carlson, J., and H.
Levkowetz, "Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)", RFC
3748, June 2004.
[ESPCBC] Pereira, R. and R. Adams, "The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher
Algorithms", RFC 2451, November 1998.
[Hutt05] Huttunen, A., Swander, B., Volpe, V., DiBurro, L., and M.
Stenberg, "UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets", RFC
3948, January 2005.
[RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434,
October 1998.
[RFC3168] Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP", RFC
3168, September 2001.
[RFC3280] Housley, R., Polk, W., Ford, W., and D. Solo, "Internet
X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 3280,
April 2002.
[RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005.
8.2. Informative References
[DES] ANSI X3.106, "American National Standard for Information
Systems-Data Link Encryption", American National Standards
Institute, 1983.
[DH] Diffie, W., and Hellman M., "New Directions in
Cryptography", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, V.
IT-22, n. 6, June 1977.
[DHCP] Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", RFC
2131, March 1997.
[DSS] NIST, "Digital Signature Standard", FIPS 186, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of
Commerce, May, 1994.
[EAPMITM] Asokan, N., Nierni, V., and Nyberg, K., "Man-in-the-Middle
in Tunneled Authentication Protocols",
http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/163, November 2002.
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[HC98] Harkins, D. and D. Carrel, "The Internet Key Exchange
(IKE)", RFC 2409, November 1998.
[IDEA] Lai, X., "On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers,"
ETH Series in Information Processing, v. 1, Konstanz:
Hartung-Gorre Verlag, 1992.
[IPCOMP] Shacham, A., Monsour, B., Pereira, R., and M. Thomas, "IP
Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)", RFC 3173,
September 2001.
[KPS03] Kaufman, C., Perlman, R., and Sommerfeld, B., "DoS
protection for UDP-based protocols", ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security, October 2003.
[KBC96] Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104, February
1997.
[LDAP] Wahl, M., Howes, T., and S Kille, "Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997.
[MD5] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321,
April 1992.
[MSST98] Maughan, D., Schertler, M., Schneider, M., and J. Turner,
"Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol
(ISAKMP)", RFC 2408, November 1998.
[Orm96] Orman, H., "The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol", RFC
2412, November 1998.
[PFKEY] McDonald, D., Metz, C., and B. Phan, "PF_KEY Key
Management API, Version 2", RFC 2367, July 1998.
[PKCS1] Jonsson, J. and B. Kaliski, "Public-Key Cryptography
Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications
Version 2.1", RFC 3447, February 2003.
[PK01] Perlman, R., and Kaufman, C., "Analysis of the IPsec key
exchange Standard", WET-ICE Security Conference, MIT,2001,
http://sec.femto.org/wetice-2001/papers/radia-paper.pdf.
[Pip98] Piper, D., "The Internet IP Security Domain Of
Interpretation for ISAKMP", RFC 2407, November 1998.
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[RADIUS] Rigney, C., Willens, S., Rubens, A., and W. Simpson,
"Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS)", RFC
2865, June 2000.
[RFC4086] Eastlake, D., 3rd, Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
"Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
June 2005.
[RFC1958] Carpenter, B., "Architectural Principles of the Internet",
RFC 1958, June 1996.
[RFC2401] Kent, S. and R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for the
Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.
[RFC2474] Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., and D. Black,
"Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474, December
1998.
[RFC2475] Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z.,
and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated
Service", RFC 2475, December 1998.
[RFC2522] Karn, P. and W. Simpson, "Photuris: Session-Key Management
Protocol", RFC 2522, March 1999.
[RFC2775] Carpenter, B., "Internet Transparency", RFC 2775, February
2000.
[RFC2983] Black, D., "Differentiated Services and Tunnels", RFC
2983, October 2000.
[RFC3439] Bush, R. and D. Meyer, "Some Internet Architectural
Guidelines and Philosophy", RFC 3439, December 2002.
[RFC3715] Aboba, B. and W. Dixon, "IPsec-Network Address Translation
(NAT) Compatibility Requirements", RFC 3715, March 2004.
[RFC4302] Kent, S., "IP Authentication Header", RFC 4302, December
2005.
[RFC4303] Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", RFC
4303, December 2005.
[RSA] Rivest, R., Shamir, A., and Adleman, L., "A Method for
Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key
Cryptosystems", Communications of the ACM, v. 21, n. 2,
February 1978.
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[SHA] NIST, "Secure Hash Standard", FIPS 180-1, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of
Commerce, May 1994.
[SIGMA] Krawczyk, H., "SIGMA: the `SIGn-and-MAc' Approach to
Authenticated Diffie-Hellman and its Use in the IKE
Protocols", in Advances in Cryptography - CRYPTO 2003
Proceedings, LNCS 2729, Springer, 2003. Available at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/
crypto/crypto2003.html.
[SKEME] Krawczyk, H., "SKEME: A Versatile Secure Key Exchange
Mechanism for Internet", from IEEE Proceedings of the 1996
Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security.
[X.501] ITU-T Recommendation X.501: Information Technology - Open
Systems Interconnection - The Directory: Models, 1993.
[X.509] ITU-T Recommendation X.509 (1997 E): Information
Technology - Open Systems Interconnection - The Directory:
Authentication Framework, June 1997.
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Appendix A: Summary of changes from IKEv1
The goals of this revision to IKE are:
1) To define the entire IKE protocol in a single document, replacing
RFCs 2407, 2408, and 2409 and incorporating subsequent changes to
support NAT Traversal, Extensible Authentication, and Remote Address
acquisition;
2) To simplify IKE by replacing the eight different initial exchanges
with a single four-message exchange (with changes in authentication
mechanisms affecting only a single AUTH payload rather than
restructuring the entire exchange) see [PK01];
3) To remove the Domain of Interpretation (DOI), Situation (SIT), and
Labeled Domain Identifier fields, and the Commit and Authentication
only bits;
4) To decrease IKE's latency in the common case by making the initial
exchange be 2 round trips (4 messages), and allowing the ability to
piggyback setup of a CHILD_SA on that exchange;
5) To replace the cryptographic syntax for protecting the IKE
messages themselves with one based closely on ESP to simplify
implementation and security analysis;
6) To reduce the number of possible error states by making the
protocol reliable (all messages are acknowledged) and sequenced.
This allows shortening CREATE_CHILD_SA exchanges from 3 messages to
2;
7) To increase robustness by allowing the responder to not do
significant processing until it receives a message proving that the
initiator can receive messages at its claimed IP address, and not
commit any state to an exchange until the initiator can be
cryptographically authenticated;
8) To fix cryptographic weaknesses such as the problem with
symmetries in hashes used for authentication documented by Tero
Kivinen;
9) To specify Traffic Selectors in their own payloads type rather
than overloading ID payloads, and making more flexible the Traffic
Selectors that may be specified;
10) To specify required behavior under certain error conditions or
when data that is not understood is received, to make it easier to
make future revisions that do not break backward compatibility;
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11) To simplify and clarify how shared state is maintained in the
presence of network failures and Denial of Service attacks; and
12) To maintain existing syntax and magic numbers to the extent
possible to make it likely that implementations of IKEv1 can be
enhanced to support IKEv2 with minimum effort.
Appendix B: Diffie-Hellman Groups
There are two Diffie-Hellman groups defined here for use in IKE.
These groups were generated by Richard Schroeppel at the University
of Arizona. Properties of these primes are described in [Orm96].
The strength supplied by group one may not be sufficient for the
mandatory-to-implement encryption algorithm and is here for historic
reasons.
Additional Diffie-Hellman groups have been defined in [ADDGROUP].
B.1. Group 1 - 768 Bit MODP
This group is assigned id 1 (one).
The prime is: 2^768 - 2 ^704 - 1 + 2^64 * { [2^638 pi] + 149686 } Its
hexadecimal value is:
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C90FDAA2 2168C234 C4C6628B 80DC1CD1 29024E08
8A67CC74 020BBEA6 3B139B22 514A0879 8E3404DD EF9519B3 CD3A431B
302B0A6D F25F1437 4FE1356D 6D51C245 E485B576 625E7EC6 F44C42E9
A63A3620 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF
The generator is 2.
B.2. Group 2 - 1024 Bit MODP
This group is assigned id 2 (two).
The prime is 2^1024 - 2^960 - 1 + 2^64 * { [2^894 pi] + 129093 }.
Its hexadecimal value is:
FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C90FDAA2 2168C234 C4C6628B 80DC1CD1 29024E08
8A67CC74 020BBEA6 3B139B22 514A0879 8E3404DD EF9519B3 CD3A431B
302B0A6D F25F1437 4FE1356D 6D51C245 E485B576 625E7EC6 F44C42E9
A637ED6B 0BFF5CB6 F406B7ED EE386BFB 5A899FA5 AE9F2411 7C4B1FE6
49286651 ECE65381 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF
The generator is 2.
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Editor's Address
Charlie Kaufman
Microsoft Corporation
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Phone: 1-425-707-3335
EMail: charliek@microsoft.com
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