Arent we mixing this draft with draft-bhatia-karp-ospf-ip-layer-protection-03?

If not, then I don't see why AT will create any new problems for GR?

Cheers, Manav 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Acee Lindem [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 10.15 PM
> To: Srinivasan K L
> Cc: Bhatia, Manav (Manav); Alan Davey; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OSPF] Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
> 
> Hi Srini,
> The fact that graceful restart will be more difficult is part 
> of the cost of implementing this draft. One of the jobs of 
> the OSPF WG is determining whether the "medicine is worse 
> than the disease". In this case, the disease is well-timed 
> replay attacks and the medicine is the proposed solution. 
> Thanks,
> Acee 
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Srinivasan K L wrote:
> 
> > Hi Manav,
> > 
> > With this new draft, since the sequence number MUST be 
> strictly increasing,
> > I think using the clock may no longer be an option. Also, 
> unplanned GR can
> > never be supported since at RouterDeadInterval, the 
> rebooted router will be
> > declared down and there would be no use in processing the 
> Grace LSAs after
> > that. Would this not be a significant restriction ? Maybe 
> we can find a
> > solution for this too....
> > 
> > Regardsm
> > Srini. 
> > 
> > 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bhatia, Manav (Manav) 
> [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8:18 PM
> > To: Srinivasan K L; 'Alan Davey'; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [OSPF] Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
> > 
> > Hi Srini,
> > 
> > This problem is not unique to this solution. As per RFC 3623:
> > 
> > "The router may need to preserve the cryptographic sequence 
> numbers being
> > used on each interface in non-volatile storage.         An 
> alternative is to
> > use the router's clock for cryptographic sequence number 
> generation and
> > ensure that the clock is         preserved across restarts 
> (either on the
> > same or redundant route processors).  If neither of these 
> can be guaranteed,
> > it         can take up to RouterDeadInterval seconds after 
> the restart
> > before adjacencies can be reestablished and this would 
> force         the
> > grace period to be lengthened greatly."
> > 
> > Cheers, Manav
> > ________________________________
> > 
> >     From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> > Of Srinivasan K L
> >     Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 8.03 PM
> >     To: 'Alan Davey'; [email protected]
> >     Subject: Re: [OSPF] Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
> >     
> >     
> > 
> >     Hi,
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     This question has set me thinking on the draft 
> "Security Extension
> > for OSPFv2 when using Manual Key Management". When a router reboots,
> > assuming that it cannot remember the last sequence number 
> it used, how will
> > it start re-establishing peers. Are the existing peers 
> supposed to accept
> > (temporarily maybe, without losing the previous sequence 
> number information
> > - anyway the challenge mechanism can protect against replay 
> attacks) packets
> > with a new (lower) sequence number that pass 
> authentication. Or will it take
> > RouterDeadInterval for the rebooted router to get accepted? 
> In case it takes
> > RouterDeadInterval, unplanned GR cannot be supported, since 
> the first
> > packets sent out will be grace LSAs, probably with lower 
> (zero) sequence
> > numbers. I think this should be explicitly covered in the draft.
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     Regards,
> > 
> >     Srini.
> > 
> >     
> > 
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> > On Behalf Of Alan Davey
> >     Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:20 PM
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> >     Subject: Re: [OSPF] Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     Folks
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     I have read draft-ietf-ospf-auth-trailer-ospfv3-02 and 
> have a few
> > minor nits as follows.
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     -           After an unplanned graceful restart, a 
> router may send
> > Grace-LSAs in an LS Update packet before any Hello packets. 
>  Unless I am
> > missing something, the draft should include such LS Update 
> packets in the
> > list of those that MUST have the AT-bit set.
> > 
> >     -          In Figure 1, for the packet on the left hand 
> side, the IP
> > Header Length HL = PL + LL (not PL + AL).
> > 
> >     -          In section 4.1 Authentication Trailer, in 
> the Auth type
> > bullet, the following wording be clearer; "At present, the 
> only value
> > defined is 1, to denote ..."?
> > 
> >      
> > 
> >     Regards
> > 
> >     Alan Davey
> > 
> >      
> > 
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