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RFC 7985
Title: Security Threats to Simplified Multicast
Forwarding (SMF)
Author: J. Yi,
T. Clausen,
U. Herberg
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2016
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected]
Pages: 15
Characters: 35822
Updates: RFC 7186
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-manet-smf-sec-threats-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7985
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7985
This document analyzes security threats to Simplified Multicast
Forwarding (SMF), including vulnerabilities of duplicate packet
detection and relay set selection mechanisms. This document is not
intended to propose solutions to the threats described.
In addition, this document updates RFC 7186 regarding threats to the
relay set selection mechanisms using the Mobile Ad Hoc Network
(MANET) Neighborhood Discovery Protocol (NHDP) (RFC 6130).
This document is a product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group of the
IETF.
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