On Jun 10, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that the treat scopes for the two cases are different.  Gleaning new 
> RLOCs is clearly a significant risk.
> Gleaning the liveness of an RLOC from the fact that it appears to be talking 
> to you is a much lower risk.  With a much higher benefit.  I have no problem 
> with noting that there is a risk, albeit somewhat complex.  But it should not 
> be viewed in the same manner.  (All security is a matter of costs and 
> benefits.)

And to add one more bit of detail here, gleaning the liveness of an RLOC who’s 
status bit has changed can be (and is in our IOS implementation) verified by a 
rate-limited RLOC Probe.

-Darrel

> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 6/10/14, 1:06 PM, Ronald Bonica wrote:
>> Hi Dino,
>> 
>> Given that the LISP data packet or ICMP packet may be from an attacker, is 
>> it even safe to glean that? I think not.
>> 
>>                                                                              
>>                                    Ron
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Dino Farinacci [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:04 PM
>>> To: Ronald Bonica
>>> Cc: LISP mailing list list
>>> Subject: Re: [lisp] Restarting last call on LISP threats
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Ronald Bonica <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Earlier in this thread, we agreed that when LISP is deployed on the global
>>> Internet, mapping information cannot be gleaned safely from incoming LISP
>>> data packets. Following that train of thought, when LISP is deployed on the
>>> global Internet, is it safe to glean routing locator reachability 
>>> information
>>> from incoming LISP data packets as described in RFC 6830, Section 6.3, 
>>> bullet
>>> 1. If not, I think that we need to mention this in the threats document.
>>> 
>>> What you can glean is that the source RLOC is up, but you cannot glean your
>>> path to it is reachable.
>>> 
>>>> Given that ICMP packets are easily spoofed, when LISP is deployed on the
>>> global Internet, is it safe to glean routing locator reachability 
>>> information
>>> from incoming ICMP packets as described in RFC 6830, Section 6.3, bullet 2
>>> and bullet 4. If not, I think that we need to mention this in the threats
>>> document.
>>> 
>>> What you can glean is that the source RLOC is up, but you cannot glean your
>>> path to it is reachable.
>>> 
>>> Dino
>>> 
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