IRTF HIP Research Group J. Ahrenholz Internet-Draft The Boeing Company Expires: August 16, 2007 February 12, 2007 HIP DHT Interface draft-ahrenholz-hiprg-dht-01 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on August 16, 2007. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2007). Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 1] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Abstract This document specifies a common interface for using HIP with a DHT to provide a HIT-to-address lookup service and an unmanaged name-to- HIT lookup service. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. The OpenDHT interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. HIP lookup services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1. HIP address lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2. Secure HIP address lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3. HIP name to HIT lookup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.4. When to use the HIP lookup services . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4. Issues with DHT support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Appendix A. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A.1. Changes from Version 00 to 01 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 23 Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 2] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 1. Introduction The Host Identity Protocol [2] may benefit from a lookup service based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs). The Host Identity namespace is flat, consisting of public keys, in contrast to the hierarchical Domain Name System. These keys are hashed to form Host Identity Tags (HITs) which appear as large random numbers. The current DNS system does not provide a suitable lookup mechanism for these flat, random values, and has been heavily optimized for address lookup. DHTs manage such data well by applying a hash function that distributes data across a number of servers. DHTs also feature good support for frequently updating stored values. One freely available implementation of a DHT is the Bamboo DHT, which is Java-based software that has been deployed on PlanetLab servers to form a free service named OpenDHT. OpenDHT is available via the Internet for any program to store and retrieve arbitrary data. OpenDHT uses a well defined XML-RPC interface, featuring put, get, and remove operations. This document discusses a common interface for HIP to be used with OpenDHT, so that various HIP implementations may leverage lookup services in an interoperable fashion. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 3] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 2. The OpenDHT interface OpenDHT is a public deployment of Bamboo DHT servers running on about 150 PlanetLab nodes. While the Bamboo project provides the actual software running on the servers, here we will refer only to OpenDHT, which uses a certain defined interface for the XML-RPC calls. One can run their own Bamboo nodes to set up a private ring of servers, but here we are interested in providing a service for use with multiple, different HIP implementations. OpenDHT was chosen because it is a well-known, publicly available DHT used within the research community. Its interface features a simple, standards-based protocol that can be easily implemented by HIP developers. This document does not aim to dictate that only the services and servers described here should be used, but is rather meant to act as a starting point to gain experience with these services, choosing tools that are readily available. OpenDHT stores values using (hash) keys. Keys are limited to 20 bytes in length, and values can be up to 1024 bytes. Values are stored for a certain number of seconds, up to a maximum of 604,800 seconds (one week.) See the OpenDHT website: Three RPC operations are supported: put, get, and rm (remove). Put is called with key and value parameters, causing the value to be stored using the key as its hash index. Get is called with the key parameter, when you have a key and want to retrieve the value. Rm is called with a hash of the value to be removed along with a secret value, a hash of which was included in the put operation. The definitions below are taken from . Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 4] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 The put operation takes the following arguments: +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | field | type | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ | application | string | | | | | client_library | string | | | | | key | byte array, 20 bytes max. | | | | | value | byte array, 1024 bytes max. | | | | | ttl_sec | four-byte integer, max. value 604800 | | | | | secret_hash | optional SHA-1 hash of secret value | +----------------+--------------------------------------+ The server replies with an integer -- 0 for "success", 1 if it is "over capacity", and 2 indicating "try again". The get operation takes the following arguments: +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | field | type | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ | application | string | | | | | client_library | string | | | | | key | byte array, 20 bytes max. | | | | | maxvals | four-byte singed integer, max. value 2^31-1 | | | | | placemark | byte array, 100 bytes max. | +----------------+---------------------------------------------+ The server replies with an array of values, and a placemark that can be used for fetching additional values. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 5] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 The rm operation takes the following arguments: +----------------+----------------------------------------------+ | field | type | +----------------+----------------------------------------------+ | application | string | | | | | client_library | string | | | | | key | byte array, 20 bytes max. | | | | | value_hash | SHA-1 hash of value to remove | | | | | ttl_sec | four-byte integer, max. value 604800 | | | | | secret | secret value (SHA-1 of this was used in put) | +----------------+----------------------------------------------+ The server replies with an integer -- 0 for "success", 1 if it is "over capacity", and 2 indicating "try again". This is the basic XML-RPC interface provided by OpenDHT. Each "field" from the above tables are XML tags that enclose their corresponding values. Below, specific uses for HIP are suggested, along with values that can be used inside the fields shown above. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 6] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 3. HIP lookup services Here we define an address lookup service for use with HIP, and provide a second definition that includes Host Identity signatures to protect against polluted DHT records. A HIT lookup service is also defined for discovering a peer HIT given a name. First is the basic address lookup service. Before a HIP association can be initiated (a non-opportunistic initiation), a HIP host needs the peer's HIT and the current address at which the peer is reachable. Often the HIT will be pre-configured or available via DNS lookup using a hostname lookup [3]. With HIP mobility [4], IP addresses may be used as locators that are subject to change frequently. The Host Identity and the HIT remain constant and can be used to securely identify a host, so the HIT makes a good DHT key for storing and retrieving addresses. The address lookup service is then enhanced by including the peer's Host Identity and a signature over the address and a timestamp. This allows the DHT client or server to validate the address information stored in the DHT. Finally, the HIT lookup service can be used when legacy DNS servers do not support HIP resource records, or when hosts do not have administrative access to their DNS records. This unmanaged naming service may help facilitate the HIP IRTF experiment. These services reduce the amount of pre-configuration required at each HIP host. The address of each peer no longer needs to be known ahead of time, if peers also participate by publishing their addresses. If peers choose to publish their HITs with a name, peer HITs also no longer need pre-configuration. However, the DHT server that will be contacted to service lookup requests is one additional configuration item. 3.1. HIP address lookup Functionally, this interface is: addr = get(HIT). Publish, lookup, and remove operations are defined. Given a HIT, a lookup returns the preferred address of the peer. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 7] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Address publish +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ | application | "hip-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value | struct sockaddr | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | ttl_sec | current address lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret_hash | optional SHA-1 hash of secret | base64 | | | value | encoded | +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ Address lookup +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | application | "hip-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 encoded | | | | | | maxvals | (implementation dependent) | numeric string | | | | | | placemark | (NULL, or used from server | base64 encoded | | | reply) | | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 8] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Address remove (optional) +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ | application | "hip-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value_hash | SHA-1 hash of address value to | base64 | | | remove | encoded | | | | | | ttl_sec | old address lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret | secret value (SHA-1 of this was | base64 | | | used in put) | encoded | +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ The application and client_library fields are used for logging in OpenDHT. The client_library may vary between different implementations, specifying the name of the XML-RPC library used or the application that directly makes XML-RPC calls. The key for both address publish and lookup is the 128-bits of the HIT, base64 encoded [1]. The value used in the publish and lookup response is the struct sockaddr that stores the address in network byte order, base64 encoded. The struct sockaddr was chosen because it is a standard interface that includes the address family. Other fields in the struct such as flowlabel and port numbers should be zeroed and ignored. The length of the struct may be longer than the system's struct sockaddr, if for example the IPv6 struct sockaddr_in6 is used. The ttl_sec field used with address publish includes the time-to- live, the number of seconds for which the entry will be stored by the DHT, which is set to the number of seconds remaining in the address lifetime. The secret_hash is an optional field used with address publish, used if the value will later be removed with an rm operation. The secret_hash contains the base64 encoded SHA-1 hash of some secret value known only to the publishing host. The max_vals and placemark fields used with address lookup are Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 9] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 defined by the get XML-RPC interface. The get needs to know the maximum number of values to retrieve. The placemark is a value found in the server reply that causes the get to continue to retrieve values starting at where it left off. 3.2. Secure HIP address lookup The address lookup interface can be slightly modified to exploit the secure properties of the HIT. Here, the Host Identity, a public key, is sent in the put operation, and is used to sign the contents of the record. Now the DHT server and/or the client can verify that the HIT and address pair added to the DHT were added by the host possessing the private key associated with the given HIT. In order for the DHT server to support this HIT verification, the standard OpenDHT server would need to be modified. Users running their own server can run the Bamboo DHT software, on which OpenDHT is based, with some modifications. For put operations that include a signature, the signature needs to be verified using the given Host Identity, and the HIT provided needs to match this Host Identity. If either signature or HIT verification fails, the put is not recorded into the DHT. The signature is also calculated over a timestamp to prevent replay attacks. When the put message is received, the timestamp from the put is compared against the server's current time, and if the difference is greater than a certain threshold, the message is discarded. This threshold is a local policy decision; a recommended value is 30 seconds. The client can perform the same signature and HIT verification. If the signature is invalid for the given Host Identity or the HIT from the record does not match the Host Identity, the DHT record retrieved must be ignored. Note that for client-only verification the DHT server does not need to be modified, so this would work on the existing OpenDHT PlanetLab deployment. The timestamp is not as meaningful when received from the client get request, but the timestamp may be compared to the client's current time, to see if it exceeds the entry's time-to-live value. This interface is: (addr,timestamp,HI,sig) = get(HIT). Publish, lookup, and remove operations are defined. Given a HIT, a lookup returns the preferred address of the peer concatenated with the timestamp, Host Identity and a signature over the address and timestamp. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 10] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Secure address publish +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ | application | "hip-secure-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value | struct sockaddr | timestamp | Host | base64 | | | Identity | signature | encoded | | | | | | ttl_sec | current address lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret_hash | optional SHA-1 hash of secret value | base64 | | | | encoded | +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ Address lookup +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | application | "hip-secure-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 encoded | | | | | | maxvals | (implementation dependent) | numeric string | | | | | | placemark | (NULL, or used from server | base64 encoded | | | reply) | | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 11] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Secure address remove (optional) +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ | application | "hip-addr" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | 128-bit HIT | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value_hash | SHA-1 hash of | base64 | | | (address|timestamp|HI|sig) value to | encoded | | | remove | | | | | | | ttl_sec | old address lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret | secret value (SHA-1 of this was | base64 | | | used in put) | encoded | +----------------+-------------------------------------+------------+ The three secure address lookup operations put, get, and rm are identical to the address lookup operations, except that wherever the struct sockaddr (the address) was included before, it is appended with the concatenation of a timestamp, the Host Identity (in the encoding used in the Host Identity field, from section 5.2.8 of [2]) and a signature calculated over the struct sockaddr value and the timestamp. In the tables above, "|" signifies concatenation of values. The signature is not computed over the Host Identity or the HIT because any change to these values results in validation failure. The timestamp is an unsigned 32-bit value representing the number of seconds since midnight UTC starting Jan 1, 1970 (standard UNIX time format). Before the client signs the put message, it sets the timestamp to the current value of its internal clock. The timestamp is meant to protect against replayed put messages as described above. 3.3. HIP name to HIT lookup Functionally, this interface is: HIT = get(SHA-1(name)), where name is any text string defined by a host. Given the SHA-1 hash of a name, a lookup returns the HIT of the peer. The hash of a name is used because OpenDHT keys are limited to 20 bytes, so this allows for names longer than 20 bytes. Publish, lookup, and remove operations are defined. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 12] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 HIT publish +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ | application | "hip-name-hit" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | SHA-1 hash of name | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value | 128-bit HIT | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | ttl_sec | name lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret_hash | optional SHA-1 hash of secret | base64 | | | value | encoded | +----------------+----------------------------------+---------------+ HIT lookup +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ | application | "hip-name-hit" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | SHA-1 hash of name | base64 encoded | | | | | | maxvals | (implementation dependent) | numeric string | | | | | | placemark | (NULL, or used from server | base64 encoded | | | reply) | | +----------------+---------------------------------+----------------+ Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 13] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 HIT remove (optional) +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ | field | value | data type | +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ | application | "hip-name-hit" | string | | | | | | client_library | (implementation dependent) | string | | | | | | key | SHA-1 hash of name | base64 | | | | encoded | | | | | | value_hash | SHA-1 hash of address value to | base64 | | | remove | encoded | | | | | | ttl_sec | name lifetime | numeric | | | | string | | | | | | secret | secret value (SHA-1 of this was | base64 | | | used in put) | encoded | +----------------+------------------------------------+-------------+ The key for both HIT publish and lookup is the SHA-1 hash of the name. The name does not necessarily need to be associated with a valid DNS or host name. It does not need to be related to the Domain Identifier found in HI TLV. OpenDHT limits the keys to 20 bytes in length, so the SHA-1 hash is used to allow arbitrary name lengths. The value used in the publish and lookup response is the base64- encoded 128-bit HIT. The ttl_sec field specifies the number of seconds for which the entry will be stored by the DHT, which is implementation dependent. The secret_hash is an optional field used with HIT publish if the value will later be removed with an rm operation. The secret_hash contains the base64 encoded SHA-1 hash of some secret value known only to the publishing host. The max_vals and placemark fields used with the HIT lookup are defined by the get XML-RPC interface. 3.4. When to use the HIP lookup services Below are some suggestions of when a HIP implementation may want to use the address and HIT lookup services. To learn of a peer's HIT, a host might first consult DNS using the peer's hostname if the DNS server supports the HIP Resource Record defined by [3]. Sometimes hosts do not have administrative authority over their DNS entries and/or the DNS server is not able to support Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 14] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 HIP resource records. Hosts may want to associate other non-DNS names with their HITs. For these and other reasons, a host may use the HIT publish service defined in Section 3.3. The peer HIT may be learned by performing a DHT lookup of such a name. Once a peer HIT is learned or configured, an address lookup could be performed so that an address can be cached and immediately available for when an association is requested. Implementations might load a list of peer HITs on startup, resulting in several lookups that can take some time to complete. However, cached addresses may quickly become obsolete, depending on how often the peer changes its preferred address. Performing an address lookup before sending the I1 may be needed. At this time the latency of a lookup may be intolerable, and a lookup could instead be performed after the I1 retransmission timer fires -- when no R1 reply has been received -- to detect any change in address. A HIP host should publish its preferred address upon startup, so other hosts may determine where it is reachable. The host needs to periodically refresh this address entry because each entry carries a TTL and will eventually expire. Also, when there is a change in preferred address, usually associated with sending UPDATE packets with included locator parameters, the host should update its address with the DHT. The old address should be removed using the rm operation, if a secret value was used in the put. Addresses from the private address space should not be published to the DHT. If the host is located behind a NAT, for example, the host could publish the address of its RVS to the DHT if that is how it is reachable. In this case however, a peer could instead simply use the RVS field of the NATted host's HIP DNS record, which would eliminate a separate DHT lookup. A HIP host should also publish its HIT upon startup or whenever a new HIT is configured, for use with the HIT lookup service, if desired. The host should first check if the name already exists in the DHT by performing a lookup, to avoid interfering with an existing name-to- HIT mapping. The name-to-HIT binding needs to be refreshed periodically before the TTL expires. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 15] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 4. Issues with DHT support Each put operation appends the new value to any existing values. If a host does not remove its old preferred address before adding another, several entries may be present. Therefore when performing an address lookup, the last address in the list should be used and considered to be the current preferred address. If performing a secure address lookup and several values are returned, the last valid address (validated using the signature and the HIT) should be used and considered to be the current preferred address. Before performing each put a host should remove its old preferred address using the rm operation. All HITs carry the same prefix, so using them as a key to a DHT entry may cause uneven distribution of the stored values. After some experience is gained utilizing this draft, it may prove beneficial to remove the HIT prefix and instead use the lower bits as the key. In the case of the HIT lookup service, there is nothing preventing different hosts from publishing the same name. A lookup performed on this name will return multiple HITs that belong to different devices. This is an unmanaged free-for-all service, so this issue will not be solved here; it is recommended that a host simply pick another name. Selecting an appropriate DHT server to use is not covered here. If a particular server becomes unavailable, the connect will timeout and some server selection algorithm should be performed, such as trying the next server in a configured list. OpenDHT does provide a DNS- based anycast service, when you perform a lookup of "opendht.nyuld.net", it will return the two nearest OpenDHT servers. Because the put and get calls rely on outside servers located across the Internet, operations may have a latency involved that should be considered when using these services with HIP. The maximum size of 1024 bytes for the value field will limit the maximum size of the Host Identity that may be used with the secure address lookup service. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 16] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 5. Security Considerations There are two possible attacks on this information exchange between host and DHT server: attacks on the validity of the information provided by the DHT to the host (such as a spoofed DHT response) and attacks on the DHT records themselves (such as polluted records for a given key). For the address lookup based on HIT (Section 3.1), the validity of the DHT response can be checked by an initiating host after the R1 message is received. The Host Identity provided in the R1 can be hashed to obtain a HIT that can be checked against the original HIT. However, the OpenDHT service does not currently prevent an attacker from polluting the DHT records for a known HIT, thereby causing a denial-of-service attack. It is possible to implement the use of HIP signatures to validate put() requests for HITs as defined in Section 3.2. When server validation of put() requests is not possible, such as in the OpenDHT service deployed today, the client should validate the record as described in Section 3.2. A timestamp is included in Section 3.2 to protect against replayed put messages. Without checking the timestamp, an attacker could re- send the signed put message, possibly causing the entry to exist beyond its valid lifetime or even after it has been removed. Relying solely on client validation may be harmful. If an attacker replays the signed put message and changes some aspect each time, and if the server is not performing signature and HIT validation, there could be a multitude of invalid entries stored in the DHT. When a client retrieves these records it would need to perform signature and HIT verification on each one, which could cause unacceptable amounts of delay or computation. For the HIT lookup based on name (Section 3.3), there are no guarantees on the validity of the HIT. Users concerned with the validity of HITs found in the DHT should simply exchange HITs out-of- band with peers. Including a signature will not help here because the HIT that identifies the Host Identity for signing is not known ahead of time. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 17] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 6. IANA Considerations This document has no actions for IANA. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 18] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 7. Acknowledgments Thanks to Tom Henderson, Samu Varjonen, Andrei Gurtov, Miika Komu, and Kristian Slavov for providing comments. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 19] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 8. References [1] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996. [2] Moskowitz, R., "Host Identity Protocol", draft-ietf-hip-base-06 (work in progress), June 2006. [3] Nikander, P. and J. Laganier, "Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions", draft-ietf-hip-dns-08 (work in progress), October 2006. [4] Nikander, P., "End-Host Mobility and Multihoming with the Host Identity Protocol", draft-ietf-hip-mm-04 (work in progress), June 2006. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 20] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Appendix A. Change Log A.1. Changes from Version 00 to 01 Removed the HIT lookup service -- using the LSI as a key to return a HIT as the value -- and added a HIT lookup service using names. Added support for OpenDHT remove. Changed all occurrences of "Open DHT" to "OpenDHT". Added the Host Identity and a signature as a secure address lookup service, with text about running a modified OpenDHT server that can verify signed put messages based on Host Identity signatures. Ahrenholz Expires August 16, 2007 [Page 21] Internet-Draft HIP DHT Interface February 2007 Author's Address Jeff Ahrenholz The Boeing Company P.O. 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