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Singh 9 Cisco 10 August 12, 2010 12 A Childless Initiation of the IKE SA 13 draft-nir-ipsecme-childless-05 15 Abstract 17 This document describes an extension to the IKEv2 protocol that 18 allows an IKE SA to be created and authenticated without generating a 19 Child SA. 21 Status of this Memo 23 This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the 24 provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. 26 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering 27 Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute 28 working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- 29 Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. 31 Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months 32 and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any 33 time. 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Introduction 55 IKEv2, as specified in [IKEv2bis], requires that the IKE_AUTH 56 exchange try to create a Child SA along with the IKE SA. This 57 requirement is sometimes inconvenient or superfluous, as some 58 implementations need to use IKE for authentication only, while others 59 would like to set up the IKE SA before there is any actual traffic to 60 protect. The extension described in this document allows the 61 creation of an IKE SA without also attempting to create a Child SA. 63 An IKE SA without any Child SA is not a fruitless endeavor. Even 64 without Child SAs, an IKE SA allows: 65 o Checking the liveness status of the peer via liveness checks. 66 o Quickly setting up Child SAs without public key operations, and 67 without user interaction. 68 o Authentication of the peer. 69 o Detection of NAT boxes between two hosts on the Internet 71 1.1. Conventions Used in This Document 73 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", 74 "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this 75 document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. 77 2. Usage Scenarios 79 Several scenarios motivated this proposal: 80 o Interactive remote access VPN: the user tells the client to 81 "connect", which may involve interactive authentication. There is 82 still no traffic, but some may come later. Since there is no 83 traffic, it is impossible for the gateway to know what selectors 84 to use (how to narrow down the client's proposal). 85 o Location aware security, as in [SecureBeacon]. The user is 86 roaming between trusted and untrusted networks. While in an 87 untrusted network, all traffic should be encrypted, but on the 88 trusted network, only the IKE SA needs to be maintained. 89 o An IKE SA may be needed between peers even when there is not IPsec 90 traffic. Such IKE peers use liveness checks, and report to the 91 administrator the status of the "VPN links". 92 o IKE may be used on some physically secure links, where 93 authentication is necessary, but traffic protection is not. An 94 example of this in the PON links as described in [3GPP.33.820]. 96 o Childless IKE can be used for [EAP-IKEv2] where we use IKEv2 as a 97 method for user authentication. 98 o A node receiving IPsec traffic with an unrecognized SPI should 99 send an INVALID_SPI notification. If this traffic comes from a 100 peer, which it recognizes based on its IP address, then this node 101 may set up an IKE SA so as to be able to send the notification in 102 a protected IKE_INFORMATIONAL exchange. 103 o A future extension may have IKE SAs used for generating keying 104 material for applications, without ever requiring Child SAs. This 105 is similar to what [extractors] is doing in TLS. 107 In some of these cases it may be possible to create a dummy Child SA 108 and then remove it, but this creates undesirable side effects and 109 race conditions. Moreover, the IKE peer might see the deletion of 110 the Child SA as a reason to delete the IKE SA. 112 3. Protocol Outline 114 The decision of whether or not to support an IKE_AUTH exchange 115 without the piggy-backed Child SA negotiation is ultimately up to the 116 responder. A supporting responder MUST include the Notify payload, 117 described in Section 4, within the IKE_SA_INIT response. 119 A supporting initiator MAY send the modified IKE_AUTH request, 120 described in Section 5, if the Notification was included in the 121 IKE_SA_INIT response. The initiator MUST NOT send the modified 122 IKE_AUTH request if the Notification was not present. 124 A supporting responder that has advertised support by including the 125 notification in the IKE_SA_INIT response MUST process a modified 126 IKE_AUTH request, and MUST reply with a modified IKE_AUTH response. 127 Such a responder MUST NOT reply with a modified IKE_AUTH response if 128 the initiator did not send a modified IKE_AUTH request. 130 A supporting responder that has been configured not to support this 131 extension to the protocol MUST behave as the same as if it didn't 132 support this extension. It MUST NOT advertise the capability with a 133 notification, and it SHOULD reply with an INVALID_SYNTAX Notify 134 payload if the client sends an IKE_AUTH request that is modified as 135 described in Section 5. 137 4. CHILDLESS_IKE_SUPPORTED Notification 139 The Notify payload is as described in [IKEv2bis] 140 1 2 3 141 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 1 142 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 143 ! Next Payload !C! RESERVED ! Payload Length ! 144 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 145 ! Protocol ID ! SPI Size ! Childless Notify Message Type ! 146 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 148 o Protocol ID (1 octet) MUST be 1, as this message is related to an 149 IKE SA. 150 o SPI Size (1 octet) MUST be zero, in conformance with section 3.10 151 of [IKEv2bis]. 152 o Childless Notify Message Type (2 octets) - MUST be xxxxx, the 153 value assigned for CHILDLESS_IKE_SUPPORTED. TBA by IANA. 155 5. Modified IKE_AUTH Exchange 157 For brevity, only the EAP version of an AUTH exchange will be 158 presented here. The non-EAP version is very similar. The figures 159 below are based on appendix C.3 of [IKEv2bis]. 161 first request --> IDi, 162 [N(INITIAL_CONTACT)], 163 [[N(HTTP_CERT_LOOKUP_SUPPORTED)], CERTREQ+], 164 [IDr], 165 [CP(CFG_REQUEST)], 166 [V+][N+] 168 first response <-- IDr, [CERT+], AUTH, 169 EAP, 170 [V+][N+] 172 / --> EAP 173 repeat 1..N times | 174 \ <-- EAP 176 last request --> AUTH 178 last response <-- AUTH, 179 [CP(CFG_REPLY)], 180 [V+][N+] 182 Note what is missing: 183 o The optional notifications: IPCOMP_SUPPORTED, USE_TRANSPORT_MODE, 184 ESP_TFC_PADDING_NOT_SUPPORTED, and NON_FIRST_FRAGMENTS_ALSO. 186 o The SA payload. 187 o The traffic selector payloads. 188 o Any notification, extension payload or VendorID that has to do 189 with Child SA negotiation. 191 6. Security Considerations 193 This protocol variation inherits all the security properties of 194 regular IKEv2 as described in [IKEv2bis]. 196 The new notification carried in the initial exchange advertises the 197 capability, and cannot be forged or added by an adversary without 198 being detected, because the response to the initial exchange is 199 authenticated with the AUTH payload of the IKE_AUTH exchange. 200 Furthermore, both peers have to be configured to use this variation 201 of the exchange in order for the responder to accept a childless 202 proposal from the initiator. 204 7. IANA Considerations 206 IANA is requested to assign a notify message type from the status 207 types range (16418-40959) of the "IKEv2 Notify Message Types" 208 registry with name "CHILDLESS_IKE_SUPPORTED". 210 8. References 212 8.1. Normative References 214 [IKEv2bis] 215 Kaufman, C., Hoffman, P., Nir, Y., and P. Eronen, 216 "Internet Key Exchange Protocol: IKEv2", 217 draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-11 (work in progress), 218 May 2010. 220 [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 221 Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 223 8.2. Informative References 225 [3GPP.33.820] 226 3GPP, "Security of H(e)NB", 3GPP TR 33.820 8.0.0, 227 March 2009. 229 [EAP-IKEv2] 230 Tschofenig, H., Kroeselberg, D., Pashalidis, A., Ohba, Y., 231 and F. Bersani, "The Extensible Authentication Protocol- 232 Internet Key Exchange Protocol version 2 (EAP-IKEv2) 233 Method", RFC 5106, February 2008. 235 [SecureBeacon] 236 Sheffer, Y. and Y. Nir, "Secure Beacon: Securely Detecting 237 a Trusted Network", draft-sheffer-ipsecme-secure-beacon 238 (work in progress), June 2009. 240 [extractors] 241 Rescorla, E., "Keying Material Exporters for Transport 242 Layer Security (TLS)", draft-ietf-tls-extractor (work in 243 progress), March 2009. 245 Authors' Addresses 247 Yoav Nir 248 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. 249 5 Hasolelim st. 250 Tel Aviv 67897 251 Israel 253 Email: ynir@checkpoint.com 255 Hannes Tschofenig 256 Nokia Siemens Networks 257 Linnoitustie 6 258 Espoo 02600 259 Finland 261 Phone: +358 (50) 4871445 262 Email: Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net 263 URI: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at 265 Hui Deng 266 China Mobile 267 53A,Xibianmennei Ave. 268 Xuanwu District 269 Beijing 100053 270 China 272 Email: denghui02@gmail.com 273 Rajeshwar Singh Jenwar 274 Cisco Systems, Inc. 275 O'Shaugnessy Road 276 Bangalore, Karnataka 560025 277 India 279 Phone: +91 80 4103 3563 280 Email: rsj@cisco.com