securing 6bone tunnels
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
itojun@iijlab.net
Fri, 09 Mar 2001 16:50:25 +0900
as I have been worried, there's traffic injection tools (attack tool)
for 6bone endpoints: http://www.pkcrew.org/tools.html. bad guys
can inject fabricated IPv6 traffic without even paticipating to 6bone,
if he knows a pair of 6bone tunnel endpoint address, and it will be
harder to track the bad guy down as tunnel decapsulation will lose
information on the outer header fields.
to avoid attacks, I would like to encourage 6bone tunnel operators
to establish IPv4 transport-mode AH (or IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel
mode AH) relationship with your peer. how to do this is implementation
dependent. for KAME-based platforms, you'd need to get the latest
KAME tree from ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/snap/ (*BSD releases
do not have enough policy checking code).
itojun