Re: BFD Authentication

[Vishwas Manral <vishwas.ietf at gmail.com>]

Hi Tom,

As most of the effort in the WG iscurrently geared to get the first
level of drafts to the RFC stage, we have not pushed this any further.
However we do intend to keep the work and push the document to WG
status and further as we move forward .

Thanks,
Vishwas

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Tom Sanders<toms.sanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here is the document we wrote to address the other concern. It also
>> talks about a way of doing Key Rollovers like you mentioned.
>>
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bhatia-bfd-crypto-auth-00
>
> I remember WG discussing this draft some time back - what happened to
> it? I skimmed through the draft (expired copy) and it seems that one
> can support any authentication type using the proposed mechanism
> (including GMAC based authentication) as its only the Key ID that's
> passed in the messages.
>
> One could rollover by using a new Key ID as alluded by Dave.
>
> Any plans of resurrecting this work?
>
> Toms.
>