Hi Panos,

thank you for sharing this draft. A couple of quick comments. 

First, I think that it is better to use a new status Notification to negotiate 
this feature 
rather than a Vendor ID payload. It is more in line with the way other IKEv2 
extensions 
are negotiated and it would allow not to waste 16 bytes in the IKE_SA_INIT 
messages. 

And second, I'm not comfortable with using fixed algorithms (AES, HMAC_SHA2) and
not addressing algorithm agility. Fortunately, your draft says that this might 
change
in future versions. I think it is an important feature ant I hope it'll be 
addressed.

Regards,
Valery Smyslov.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Panos Kampanakis (pkampana) 
  To: Perlner, Ray ; [email protected] 
  Cc: Liu, Yi-Kai ; David McGrew (mcgrew) ; Waltermire, David A. ; Frankel, 
Sheila E. ; Scott Fluhrer (sfluhrer) ; Moody, Dustin 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 8:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [IPsec] NIST question concerning IKEv2 and quantum resistance


  Hi Ray,

   

  Scott's https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fluhrer-qr-ikev2/ is the first 
take of QC resistant IKEv2. It is still in its early stages and has not been 
adopted as any WG's item yet. 

   

  Feedback is welcome.

   

  Rgs,

  Panos

   

   

   

  From: IPsec [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Perlner, Ray
  Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 3:33 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Cc: Liu, Yi-Kai <[email protected]>; Moody, Dustin <[email protected]>; 
Frankel, Sheila E. <[email protected]>; Waltermire, David A. 
<[email protected]>
  Subject: [IPsec] NIST question concerning IKEv2 and quantum resistance

   

  Hi all. 

   

  NIST is investigating quantum-resistant alternatives to presently 
standardized public-key algorithms. We are reaching out to the IPSec working 
group to determine if there are any unique needs associated with trying to add 
quantum-resistance to IKEv2, which currently only uses variants of the 
Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

   

  We believe a number of the properties of the Diffie-Hellman construction 
(such as perfect forward secrecy) can be met using generic constructions based 
on standard cryptographic primitives and security models (such as IND-CCA2 
encryption and EUF-CMA signature) as long as key generation times are fast. If 
IKEv2 can accommodate such generic constructions, there are likely to be many 
proposals to choose from. However, there are some additional properties of the 
Diffie-Hellman exchange which may be difficult to duplicate (such as the 
property that the responder can compute his key exchange message without seeing 
the initiator's key-exchange message) and it's not as clear to us what the 
security model for a key exchange replacing DH should be.

   

  So in summary, we would like to answers to the following questions:

  1)      Can IKEv2 can be modified to replace the Diffie-Hellman exchange with 
a generic construction based on standard encryption, signature, and PRF 
primitives?

  2)       If not, what specific security and correctness requirements should 
we target to meet the need?

   

  Thanks,

  Ray

   

   

   



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