Re: [Full-disclosure] Security Assessment of TCP at the IETF

[Hal Wigoda <hwigoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry, but the links do not work.


On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Fernando Gont wrote:

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> Hello, folks,
>
> In February this year the UK CPNI published the document "Security
> Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)" (available at:
> http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/tn-03-09-security-assessment-TCP.pdf)
>
> Earlier this year we published an IETF Internet-Draft version of this
> document (available at:
> http://www.gont.com.ar/drafts/tcp-security/draft-gont-tcp-security-00.txt)
> in the hope of having the IETF further work on the TCP security  
> paper UK
> CPNI had published.
>
> My personal take (possibly biased, since I am the document author)
> is that this document has been the result of a lot of work (including
> the work of the many peple that reviewed the CPNI version of the
> document), and that the IETF should take this chance to work and  
> publish
> something on the subject.
>
> The chairs of the TCPM Working Group of the IETF are currently polling
> the WG for input about this document. It would be great if you could
> voice your opinion about whether the TCPM should take this document  
> on,
> and also whether you would be willing to review this document. (Bellow
> you'll find a copy of the TCPM chairs' poll)
>
> Please send your comments to tcpm@xxxxxxxx (and please CC me).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
> Fernando
>
>
>
>
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> Subject: [tcpm] poll for adopting draft-gont-tcp-security
> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:25:04 -0500
> From: Eddy, Wesley M. (GRC-MS00)[Verizon] <wesley.m.eddy@xxxxxxxx>
> To: tcpm Extensions WG <tcpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> TCPMers, there was a thread a while ago about working on
> draft-gont-tcp-security in this working group that didn't
> conclusively give us a feeling one way or other:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg04489.html
>
> Basically, my understanding is that there are at least a
> handful of people in the WG that think it should be done
> here as a WG item (more likely for Informational rather
> than BCP), and there are also some expressed opinions on
> why it shouldn't.
>
> Given the raw size of the document, if the WG intends to
> take this document on, then we need some people to clearly
> commit to putting cycles into review and contributions to
> the document.  Since it is quite large, and to my knowledge,
> there hasn't been a specific technical review of the content
> on this list, but just discussions about if the idea in
> general is a good or bad thing, we still need to know if
> people are willing to invest their time and energy in this.
>
> Please let us know if there is traction for this in the
> near term, and/or we can also discuss it in Stockholm.
>
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