IPSec the new security standart for the internet, intranets and virtual private networks

280 Pages·2003·1.899 MB·English

by  Doraswamy, Naganand, Harkins, Dan

IPSec
The New Security
Standard for the Internet,
Intranets, and Virtual
Private Networks
Second Edition
ISBN 013046189-X
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IPSec
The New Security Standard
for the Internet, Intranets, and
Virtual Private Networks
Second Edition
Naganand Doraswamy
Dan Harkins
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Doraswamy, Naganand.
IPSec: the new security standard for the Internet, intranets,
and virtual private networks, Second Edition / Naganand Doraswamy, Dan Harkins.
p. cm. -- (Prentice-Hall PTR Web infrastructure series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-13-046189-X
1. IPSec (Computer network protocol) 2. Internet (Computer
networks) -- Security measures. 3. Intranets (Computer networks) --
Security measures. 4. Extranets (Computer networks) -- Security measures.
I. Harkins, Dan. II. Title. III. Series.
TK5105.567 .D67 2002
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Chapter
Table of Contents
Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xi
Part One: Overview
1 Cryptographic History and Techniques . . . . . . . . 1
Secrets in History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Rise of the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Internet Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Cryptographic Building Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Crypto Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
More Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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viii IPSec
2 TCP/IP Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Introduction to TCP/IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Domain Name System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Security—at What Level?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3 IP Security Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
The Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Authentication Header (AH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Internet Key Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Part Two: Detailed Analysis
4 IPSec Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
The IPSec Roadmap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
IPSec Implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
IPSec Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Security Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
IPSec Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
ICMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5 The Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
The ESP Header. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
ESP Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
ESP Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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6 The Authentication Header (AH) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
The AH Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
AH Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
AH Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
7 The Internet Key Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
ISAKMP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
IKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
The IPSec DOI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Part Three: Deployment Issues
8 Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Policy Definition Requirement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Policy Representation and Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Policy Management System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Setting Up the Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9 IPSec Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Implementation Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
IPSec Protocol Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Fragmentation and PMTU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
ICMP Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
10 IP Security in Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
End-to-End Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168