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IETF RFC 3972
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Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)

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Publisher
IETF
Doc Type
Standard
Pages
22
Abstract
This document describes a method for binding a public signature key to an IPv6 address in the Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) protocol. Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) are IPv6 addresses for which the interface identifier is generated by computing a cryptographic one-way hash function from a public key and auxiliary parameters. The binding between the public key and the address can be verified by re-computing the hash value and by comparing the hash with the interface identifier. Messages sent from an IPv6 address can be protected by attaching the public key and auxiliary parameters and by signing the message with the corresponding private key. The protection works without a certification authority or any security infrastructure. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Publication Date
2005-03-01
Status Note
Proposed Standard
DOI
10.17487/RFC3972
Link
https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3972
Author(s)
Tuomas Aura
Keyword(s)
Secure Neighbor Discovery, SEND
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  • ▶ IETF RFC 3972 (2005-03-01)
    THIS DOC [ACTIVE] [LATEST VERSION]

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  • RFC4581 NOT IN REGISTRY
  • RFC4982 NOT IN REGISTRY

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Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • IETF.draft-nikander-addr-ownership-00 — Nik01 EXTERNAL
  • ISBN.9780471117094 — 7. Menezes A. van Oorshot P. Vanstone S. , Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press , 1997 . EXTERNAL
  • Montenegro, G. and C. Castelluccia, "Statistically unique and cryptographically verifiable identifiers and addresses", ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS 2002), San Diego, CA USA , February 2002. EXTERNAL
  • O'Shea, G. and M. Roe, "Child-proof authentication for MIPv6 (CAM)", ACM Computer Communications Review 31(2), April 2001. EXTERNAL
  • Aura, T., "Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)", 6th Information Security Conference (ISC'03), Bristol, UK, October 2003. EXTERNAL
  • Arkko, J., Aura, T., Kempf, J., Mantyla, V., Nikander, P., and M. Roe, "Securing IPv6 neighbor discovery and router discovery", ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe 2002), Atlanta, GA USA , September 2002. EXTERNAL
  • IETF RFC 1750 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2461 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 2462 [Superseded*]
  • IETF RFC 3041 [Superseded*]
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