Christopher Patton <[email protected]> wrote:
    > So consider what happens if both peers support the extension and the
    > attacker rewrites the initiator IKE_INIT_SA to drop the
    > notification. The responder will notify anyway (2.), which will prompt
    > the initiator to sign the entire IKE_INIT_SA exchange (3.) The
    > responder however expects the initiator to sign a different string,
    > since it did not see a notification from the client. This will cause
    > the IKE_AUTH exchange to fail, which is how we detect the attack.

What prevents the on-path active attacker from removing the responders' Notify?

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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