Markku Savela wrote:

> One could consider a special "helper" application/daemon, which would
> input from user (configuration) single manual key, and then would
> generate and install the necessary from SA's for the ND protection (I
> suspect this "daemon" would need to be constantly running, as SA's may
> be needed dynamically.


and then:

 > Securing ND with existing IPSEC (kernel) only needs to agree on
 > specific SPI to use and, assuming a special key management daemon,
 > which would do the following tasks

True. (Both were listed a long time ago in Section 8 of [1] as one of
the alternatives... I tried to do something about the issue at the IPsec
WG but there weren't too many interested parties, maybe v6 wasn't interesting
at that time, or something.)

But as Erik pointed out the symmetric crypto may not be
sufficient.

Jari
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[1] http://www.piuha.net/~jarkko/publications/draft-arkko-manual-icmpv6-sas-00.txt

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