It is not just the implementation including support for PPK or not. It’s the 
deployment considerations, the domain admin’s ability and willingness to manage 
PPKs. 
—
Regards,
Uri

Secure Resilient Systems and Technologies
MIT Lincoln Laboratory

> On Jul 31, 2025, at 08:26, Jun Hu (Nokia) <jun...@nokia.com> wrote:
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> By “mandating use of PPK” I meant in RFC8784 PPK is already a negotiated 
> option, but in order to prevent attacker remove the USE_PPK notification, 
> both sides need to have policy to mandate PPK must be used.
> Of course, we can’t assume all implementations support PPK, but it is same we 
> can’t assume all implementations will support new protocol changes this draft 
> introduces specifically the changes in the draft is not trivial; at least 
> RFC8784 has been out for a while, and I know quite some ipsec implementations 
> already supported it.
> I think if the WG adopt this draft, there should be texts in the draft 
> mentioning all these mitigations beside protocol changes.
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> draft-smyslov-ipsecme-ikev2-downgrade-prevention
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> Hi Uri and Jun,
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> I agree - mandating use of PPK may not work. However, suggesting use of PPK, 
> i.e., as a (negotiable?) option would be a very good thing: those who have 
> the ability to employ it, and want better security - would opt in. While 
> those who don’t care or for various reasons cannot manage the distribution - 
> could opt out. 
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> This sounds like a good idea to me! 
> https://github.com/smyslov/ikev2-downgrade-prevention/issues/5
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> Chris P.

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