On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Valery Smyslov wrote:

> >  What does IPsec community think of it? Should we fix the protocol
> > to thwart this attack completely? Is the recommendation to move the > > COOKIE to the end of the message enough to achive that?
> >  Will this change break many existing implementations?

We (libreswan) did a little hardening on the cookie that will verify
unexpected cookies anyway, contrary to current RFC:

https://securityblog.redhat.com/2016/01/13/the-sloth-attack-and-ikeipsec/

Paul

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