Keying for network resources is highly complicated and will likely have
little adoption. While I see the reasons why we would be interested in
providing a useful framework to accomplish the said task; remember how far
we got with secure origin BGP and related protocols.

We could do it, but today's trust boundaries typically live on the
NVE/PE/ToR/etc, and are not truly multi-org, but rather multiple projects
that can be authorized at the application level.

Truman


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Melinda Shore <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 8/22/13 6:05 PM, Zhangdacheng (Dacheng) wrote:
> > Hi, thanks a lot for the comments. I agree that it is reasonable to
> > allow the VNs of a same tenant to share a group key in order to
> > secure their communication. I will add this into the new version of
> > the draft.
>
> I'm generally a fan of group keying but I think it's important to
> understand that it's not just a plug-and-play replacement for
> pairwise keying, and that in particular you'll need to pay more
> attention to authorization issues, as well as give some thought
> to the implications of sharing certain pieces of data among all
> members of a group.
>
> It may or may not be the right technology to solve a given problem,
> and any text proposing the use of group keys should be tightly scoped
> and constrained.  I'm somewhat concerned that there's an "ooh, shiny!"
> thing going on here.
>
> Melinda
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