Liubing (Remy) <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Thank you for mentioning 6tisch-minimal-security.  There is also a
    > BRSKI-like 6tisch mechanism that uses IDevID.

    >   [Remy] I think you must
    > be talking about [draft-ietf-6tisch-dtsecurity-zerotouch-join]. The
    > minimal security is considered to be one-touch since the PSK has to be
    > configured a priori. And this document provides a zero-touch method, in
    > which the IDevID (provided by the manufacturer) in 802.1AR is used as
    > the credential for authentication. The authentication is done with the
    > help of the MASA. Am I understanding it correctly? I think the method
    > simplifies the provisioning procedure. However, the PLC standards have
    > not supported 802.1AR yet, thus this zero-touch method couldn't be used
    > in the implementation at this moment.

Whether or not the *PLC* documents specify 802.1AR is not really relevant.
They also don't specify any useful secure join mechanism at all.

The device either has a manufacturer provided keypair, or it has to be
provisioned with a key by the operator.

    > Is it the case that the PLC devices can have no L2 security as an
    > option?  I believe that you may wish to outlaw that situation.

    > [Remy] All the PLC standards we mentioned in this document have L2
    > security mechanisms, such as encryption, data integrity, and
    > anti-replay. Since this document is focused on the adaptation layer and
    > above, the L2 security is considered to be applied by default.

Then uou can use dtsecurity-zerotouch-join or 6tisch-minimal-security.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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