Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, Mark Townsley wrote: My own experience attempting to use IPsec as an add-on security solution (a.k.a. "pixie dust) for a protocol isn't all that positive. We tried that with L2TP, and in the process failed to kill off PPTP on windows clients. I can't tell you how many time

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 23, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Douglas Otis wrote: > Actually, it is better to assume there is a long list of vulnerable home > routers being p0wned by entities beyond their ISP. This is to some extent true, but not something we can really address in homenet. _

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Douglas Otis
On Sep 23, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > On 9/23/14, 1:07 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: >> Michael Thomas wrote: >> >> 2) ISP-provided router has to be willing to trust retail purchased >> router, >> >> or nothing works. >> >> > So what about the other way around? T

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/23/14, 1:07 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: Michael Thomas wrote: >> 2) ISP-provided router has to be willing to trust retail purchased router, >> or nothing works. > So what about the other way around? To what degrees should my homenet trust > ISP-maintained CPE? Tha

Re: [homenet] Working Group draft adoptions

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Late, but: I have read draft-pfister-homenet-prefix-assignment. Adopt it. I thought I read it before, but maybe not. It all seems familiar, but what's with all the IPv4 stuff? I guess we are doing an IPv4 thing, because we can, and it's useful to be able to turn off detect that have multiple p

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Michael Thomas wrote: >> 2) ISP-provided router has to be willing to trust retail purchased router, >> or nothing works. > So what about the other way around? To what degrees should my homenet trust > ISP-maintained CPE? That's up to you. Seriously. Your ISP-maintained CPE to

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
STARK, BARBARA H wrote: > If the concern is with a man-in-the-middle attack on HNCP messages, > then point-to-point security, using encryption with any key that the 2 The concern is man-in-the-middle "attacks" on HNCP messages by an outsider, not another member of the household. Or, mor

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Thomas
On 9/23/14, 10:59 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: 2) ISP-provided router has to be willing to trust retail purchased router, or nothing works. So what about the other way around? To what degrees should my homenet trust ISP-maintained CPE? Or more succinctly, what are the things the ISP and

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Randy Turner wrote: > Are we assuming that the home router is purchased retail, and not > "fulfilled" or provided by an ISP? The method to establish trust > relationships would hinge on the answer 1) if there only one home router from the ISP, then there is no problem. 2) ISP-provide

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread STARK, BARBARA H
> >> I further suggest that if two routers have wireless that they might > well > >> have a WPA2/PSK available to them, and that they can and SHOULD use > something > >> derived from that key to authenticate each other. Could be over IKEv2, > yes. > > > I _think_ we have to assu

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 23, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > With respect, if you leave the trust scheme out of scope, what you are > really doing is leaving all of the security out of scope, because it won't be > deployable. +1 ___ homenet mailing list h

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Steven Barth wrote: >> And it's extremely unlikely that >> DTLS will be a one-sentence "solution" even if it gets adopted because >> DTLS, IPsec, etc say nothing >> about enrollment and authorization. Those are by far the hard problems with >> homenent security. > I woul

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Mark Townsley wrote: > My own experience attempting to use IPsec as an add-on security > solution (a.k.a. "pixie dust) for a protocol isn't all that > positive. We tried that with L2TP, and in the process failed to kill > off PPTP on windows clients. I can't tell you how many time

Re: [homenet] HNCP security?

2014-09-23 Thread Michael Richardson
Markus Stenberg wrote: markus> 1) Can we assume secure L2 and/or appropriate device markus> configuration by the manufacturer/ISP(/user)? (This is what I can markus> assume in my own home.) >> I think that we can assume that wired links are secure. >> The only time we care if