> I agree that asymmetric encryption may be more desirable in theory, but in 
> practice symmetric encryption supports much higher performance loads

But with asymmetric we can use a two packet exchange (the Map-Request and 
Map-Reply), store the public key only in the mapping database (no other 
components necessary), allow an ITR to send Map-Requests to the map-resolver 
where Map-Replies are sent from an ETR connected to another map-server (the 
map-resolver is not the map-server for the ETR).

Yes, it is slow, but that is the cost for the best security.

Dino

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> On Sep 8, 2013, at 2:30 PM, "Michiel Blokzijl (mblokzij)" 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I think it would actually be quite interesting to use "standard" public key 
>> encryption, rather than symmetric encryption in LISP. This would reduce the 
>> need for negotiations, not require pairs of ITRs and ETRs to share the same 
>> map server, etc. Admittedly it might not be practical for other reasons.. 
>> (may need to store lots of large keys, might be too slow, etc)
>> 
>> Here's one way to do it:
>> You could easily attaching a PGP key id to the RLOCs in the mapping record 
>> returned in map-replies. When an ITR receives a map-reply, the ITR could 
>> grab the public key from one of the well-known keyservers, and use that 
>> public key for encrypting traffic to that ETR.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Michiel
>> 
>> On 8 Sep 2013, at 16:04, Edward Lopez <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Key generation/management/distribution would be the real difficulty.  It 
>>> would be desirable to use symmetric encryption (Ex. AES256) to encrypt LISP 
>>> payloads.  Therefore, we use certs & asymmetric encryption (some form of 
>>> ECC) at the time of xTR registration to provide a method to distribute keys 
>>> to authenticated site members.
>>> 
>>> Another consideration is to encrypt just the EID header, and have EIDs use 
>>> IPSec (thus LISP would in effect encrypt the outer IPSec ESP header).  
>>> Someone in the RLOC space would then require two keys to decrypt the 
>>> message fully, and the encryption load would be distributed between EIDs 
>>> and xTRs
>>> 
>>> Ed Lopez
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone ... Sorry for any auto-correct errors
>>> 
>>> On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:04 AM, "Noel Chiappa" <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> From: Marc Binderberger <[email protected]>
>>>> 
>>>>> Lisp is separating Identity from Location but this doesn't mean the
>>>>> RLOC can not be used to identify you. In case of static setups this is
>>>>> obvious, take the RLOC, go to the ISP, get the (physical) address and
>>>>> name.
>>>> 
>>>> Err, that would get the address and name of the ITR, not the actual source
>>>> host.
>>>> 
>>>> Depending on all sorts of factors, that plus the encrypted packet _might_ 
>>>> get
>>>> them the identity of the actual originator (not, for example, if the ITR 
>>>> has
>>>> discarded the key used to encrypt the packet by the time the subpoena
>>>> arrives...)
>>>> 
>>>> Noel
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