Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) F. Gont
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Unfortunate History of Transient Numeric Identifiers
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Abstract
This document analyzes the timeline of the specification and
implementation of different types of "transient numeric identifiers"
used in IETF protocols, and how the security and privacy properties
of such protocols have been affected as a result of it. It provides
empirical evidence that advice in this area is warranted.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Threat Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. IPv4/IPv6 Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. TCP Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. IPv6 Interface Identifiers (IIDs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7. NTP Reference IDs (REFIDs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. Transport Protocol Ephemeral Port Numbers . . . . . . . . . . 12
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1. Introduction
Networking protocols employ a variety of transient numeric
identifiers for different protocol objects, ranging from DNS
Transaction IDs (TxIDs) to transport protocol ephemeral port numbers
or IPv6 Interface Identifiers (IIDs). These identifiers typically
have specific interoperability requirements (e.g. uniqueness during a
specified period of time), and an associated modes when such
properties are not met [I-D.irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation].
For more than 30 years, a large number of implementations of the TCP/
IP protocol suite have been subject to a variety of attacks, with
effects ranging from Denial of Service (DoS) or data injection, to
information leakages that could be exploited for pervasive monitoring
[RFC7258]. The root cause of these issues has been, in many cases,
poor selection of numeric identifiers, usually as a result of
insufficient or misleading specifications.
For example, implementations have been subject to security or privacy
issues resulting from:
o Predictable TCP Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs) (see e.g.
[Morris1985])
o Predictable transport protocol ephemeral port numbers (see e.g.
[RFC6056] and [Silbersack2005])
o Predictable IPv4 or IPv6 Fragment Identifiers (see e.g.
[RFC5722], [RFC6274], and [RFC7739])
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o Predictable IPv6 IIDs (see e.g. [RFC7721] and [RFC7707])
o Predictable DNS TxIDs [RFC1035]
Recent history indicates that when new protocols are standardized or
implemented, the security and privacy properties of the associated
transient numeric identifiers tend to be overlooked, and
inappropriate algorithms to generate such identifiers (i.e. with
negative security or privacy properties) are either suggested in the
specification or selected by implementers.
This document contains a non-exhaustive timeline of the specification
and vulnerability disclosures related to some sample transient
numeric identifiers, including other work that has led to advances in
this area. This analysis indicates that:
o Vulnerabilities associated with the inappropriate generation of
transient numeric identifiers have affected protocol
implementations for an extremely long period of time.
o Such vulnerabilities, even when addressed for a given protocol
version, were later reintroduced in new versions or new
implementations of the same protocol.
o Standardization efforts that discuss and provide advice in this
area can have a positive effect on protocol specifications and
protocol implementations.
While it is generally possible to identify an algorithm that can
satisfy the interoperability requirements for a given numeric
identifier, this document provides empirical evidence that doing so
without negatively affecting the security or privacy properties of
the aforementioned protocols is non-trivial. Other related documents
([I-D.irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation] and
[I-D.gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations]) provide guidance in this
area, as motivated by the present document.
2. Terminology
Transient Numeric Identifier:
A data object in a protocol specification that can be used to
definitely distinguish a protocol object (a datagram, network
interface, transport protocol endpoint, session, etc) from all
other objects of the same type, in a given context. Transient
numeric identifiers are usually defined as a series of bits, and
represented using integer values. These identifiers are typically
dynamically selected, as opposed to statically-assigned numeric
identifiers (see e.g. [IANA-PROT]). We note that different
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identifiers may have additional requirements or properties
depending on their specific use in a protocol. We use the term
"transient numeric identifier" (or simply "numeric identifier" or
"identifier" as short forms) as a generic term to refer to any
data object in a protocol specification that satisfies the
identification property stated above.
The terms "constant IID", "stable IID", and "temporary IID" are to be
interpreted as defined in [RFC7721].
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
3. Threat Model
Throughout this document, we assume an attacker does not have
physical or logical access to the device(s) being attacked. We
assume the attacker can simply send any traffic to the target
device(s), to e.g. sample identifiers employed by such device(s).
4. IPv4/IPv6 Identification
This section presents the timeline of the Identification field
employed by IPv4 (in the base header) and IPv6 (in Fragment Headers).
The reason for presenting both cases in the same section is to make
it evident that while the Identification value serves the same
purpose in both IPv4 and IPv6, the work and research done for the
IPv4 case did not affect IPv6 specifications or implementations.
The IPv4 Identification value is specified in [RFC0791], which
specifies the interoperability requirements for the Identification
field: the sender must choose the Identification field to be unique
for a given source address, destination address, and protocol, for
the time the datagram (or any fragment of it) could be alive in the
internet. It suggests that a node may keep "a table of Identifiers,
one entry for each destination it has communicated with in the last
maximum packet lifetime for the internet", and suggests that "since
the Identifier field allows 65,536 different values, hosts may be
able to simply use unique identifiers independent of destination".
The above has been interpreted numerous times as a suggestion to
employ per-destination or global counters for the generation of
Identification values. While [RFC0791] does not suggest any flawed
algorithm for the generation of Identification values, the
specification omits a discussion of the security and privacy
implications of predictable Identification values. This has resulted
in many IPv4 implementations generating predictable fragment
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Identification values by means of a global counter, at least at some
point in time.
The IPv6 Identification is specified in [RFC2460]. It serves the
same purpose as its IPv4 counterpart, with the only difference
residing in the length of the corresponding field, and that while the
IPv4 Identification field is part of the base IPv4 header, in the
IPv6 case it is part of the Fragment header (which may or may not be
present in an IPv6 packet). [RFC2460] states, in Section 4.5, that
the Identification must be different than that of any other
fragmented packet sent recently (within the maximum likely lifetime
of a packet) with the same Source Address and Destination Address.
Subsequently, it notes that this requirement can be met by means of a
wrap-around 32-bit counter that is incremented each time a packet
must be fragmented, and that it is an implementation choice whether
to use a global or a per-destination counter. Thus, the
implementation of the IPv6 Identification is similar to that of the
IPv4 case, with the only difference that in the IPv6 case the
suggestions to use simple counters is more explicit.
September 1981:
[RFC0791] specifies the interoperability requirements for IPv4
Identification value, but does not specify any requirements in the
area of security and privacy.
December 1998:
[Sanfilippo1998a] finds that predictable IPv4 Identification
values (generated by most popular implementations) can be
leveraged to count the number of packets sent by a target node.
[Sanfilippo1998b] explains how to leverage the same vulnerability
to implement a port-scanning technique known as dumb/idle scan. A
tool that implements this attack is publicly released.
December 1998:
[RFC2460] suggests that a global counter be used to generate the
IPv6 Identification value.
November 1999:
[Sanfilippo1999] discusses how to leverage predictable IPv4
Identification to uncover the rules of a number of firewalls.
November 1999:
[Bellovin2002] explains how the IPv4 Identification field can be
exploited to count the number of systems behind a NAT.
September 2002:
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[Fyodor2002] explains how to implement a stealth port-scanning
technique by leveraging nodes that employ predictable IPv4
Identification values.
December 2003:
[Zalewski2003] explains a technique to perform TCP data injection
attack based on predictable IPv4 identification values which
requires less effort than TCP injection attacks performed with
bare TCP packets.
November 2005:
[Silbersack2005] discusses shortcoming in a number of techniques
to mitigate predictable IPv4 Identification values.
October 2007:
[Klein2007] describes a weakness in the pseudo random number
generator (PRNG) in use for the generation of the IP
Identification by a number of operating systems.
June 2011:
[Gont2011] describes how to perform idle scan attacks in IPv6.
November 2011:
Linux mitigates predictable IPv6 Identification values
[RedHat2011] [SUSE2011] [Ubuntu2011].
December 2011:
[draft-gont-6man-predictable-fragment-id-00] describes the
security implications of predictable IPv6 Identification values,
and possible mitigations. This document is published on the
Standards Track, meaning to formally update [RFC2460], to
introduce security and privacy requirements on IPv6 Identification
values.
May 2012:
[Gont2012] notes that some major IPv6 implementations still employ
predictable IPv6 Identification values.
March 2013:
The 6man WG adopts [I-D.gont-6man-predictable-fragment-id], but
changes the track to "BCP" (while still formally updating
[RFC2460]), publishing the resulting document as
[draft-ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id-00].
June 2013:
A patch that implements IPv6-based idle-scan in nmap is submitted
[Morbitzer2013].
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December 2014:
The 6man WG changes the status of
[draft-ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id-01] to "Informational"
and publishes it as [draft-ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id-02].
As a result, it no longer formally updates [RFC2460].
June 2015:
[draft-ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id-08] notes that some
popular host and router implementations still employ predictable
IPv6 Identification values.
February 2016:
[RFC7739] (based on [I-D.ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id])
analyzes the security and privacy implications of predictable IPv6
Identification values, and provides guidance for selecting an
algorithm to generate such values. However, being published on
the Informational track, it does not formally update [RFC2460].
June 2016:
[I-D.ietf-6man-rfc2460bis], revision of [RFC2460], removes the
suggestion from RFC2460 to employ a global counter for the
generation of IPv6 Identification values, but does not specify any
security and privacy requirements for the IPv6 Identification
value.
July 2017:
[I-D.ietf-6man-rfc2460bis] is finally published as [RFC8200],
obsoleting [RFC2460], and pointing to [RFC7739] for sample
algorithms for the generation of IPv6 Fragment Identification
values.
June 2019:
[IPID-DEV] notes that the IPv6 ID generators of two popular
operating systems are flawed.
5. TCP Initial Sequence Numbers (ISNs)
[RFC0793] suggests that the choice of the ISN of a connection is not
arbitrary, but aims to reduce the chances of a stale segment from
being accepted by a new incarnation of a previous connection.
[RFC0793] suggests the use of a global 32-bit ISN generator that is
incremented by 1 roughly every 4 microseconds. However, as a matter
of fact, protection against stale segments from a previous
incarnation of the connection is enforced by preventing the creation
of a new incarnation of a previous connection before 2*MSL have
passed since a segment corresponding to the old incarnation was last
seen (where "MSL" is the "Maximum Segment Lifetime" [RFC0793]). This
is accomplished by the TIME-WAIT state and TCP's "quiet time" concept
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(see Appendix B of [RFC1323]). Based on the assumption that ISNs are
monotonically increasing across connections, many stacks (e.g.,
4.2BSD-derived) use the ISN of an incoming SYN segment to perform
"heuristics" that enable the creation of a new incarnation of a
connection while the previous incarnation is still in the TIME-WAIT
state (see p. 945 of [Wright1994]). This avoids an interoperability
problem that may arise when a node establishes connections to a
specific TCP end-point at a high rate [Silbersack2005].
The interoperability requirements for TCP ISNs are probably not
clearly spelled out as one would expect. Furthermore, the suggestion
of employing a global counter in [RFC0793] results in negative
security and privacy properties.
September 1981:
[RFC0793], suggests the use of a global 32-bit ISN generator,
whose lower bit is incremented roughly every 4 microseconds.
However, such an ISN generator makes it trivial to predict the ISN
that a TCP will use for new connections, thus allowing a variety
of attacks against TCP.
February 1985:
[Morris1985] was the first to describe how to exploit predictable
TCP ISNs for forging TCP connections that could then be leveraged
for trust relationship exploitation.
April 1989:
[Bellovin1989] discussed the security considerations for
predictable ISNs (along with a range of other protocol-based
vulnerabilities).
February 1995:
[Shimomura1995] reported a real-world exploitation of the attack
described in 1985 (ten years before) in [Morris1985].
May 1996:
[RFC1948] was the first IETF effort, authored by Steven Bellovin,
to address predictable TCP ISNs. The same concept specified in
this document for TCP ISNs was later proposed for TCP ephemeral
ports [RFC6056], TCP Timestamps, and eventually even IPv6
Interface Identifiers [RFC7217].
March 2001:
[Zalewski2001] provides a detailed analysis of statistical
weaknesses in some ISN generators, and includes a survey of the
algorithms in use by popular TCP implementations.
May 2001:
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Vulnerability advisories [CERT2001] [USCERT2001] are released
regarding statistical weaknesses in some ISN generators, affecting
popular TCP/IP implementations.
March 2002:
[Zalewski2002] updates and complements [Zalewski2001]. It
concludes that "while some vendors [...] reacted promptly and
tested their solutions properly, many still either ignored the
issue and never evaluated their implementations, or implemented a
flawed solution that apparently was not tested using a known
approach" [Zalewski2002].
February 2012:
[RFC6528], after 27 years of Morris' original work [Morris1985],
formally updates [RFC0793] to mitigate predictable TCP ISNs.
August 2014:
[I-D.eddy-rfc793bis-04], the upcoming revision of the core TCP
protocol specification, incorporates the algorithm specified in
[RFC6528] as the recommended algorithm for TCP ISN generation.
6. IPv6 Interface Identifiers (IIDs)
IPv6 Interface Identifiers can be generated in multiple ways: SLAAC
[RFC4862], DHCPv6 [RFC8415], and manual configuration. This section
focuses on Interface Identifiers resulting from SLAAC.
The Interface Identifier of stable (traditional) IPv6 addresses
resulting from SLAAC have traditionally resulted in the underlying
link-layer address being embedded in the IID.At the time, employing
the underlying link-layer address for the IID was seen as a
convenient way to obtain a unique address. However, recent awareness
about the security and privacy properties of this approach [RFC7707]
[RFC7721] has led to the replacement of this flawed scheme with an
alternative one that mitigates its negative security and privacy
properties [RFC7217] [RFC8064].
January 1997:
[RFC2073] specifies the syntax of IPv6 global addresses (referred
to as "An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format" at the
time), consistent with the IPv6 addressing architecture specified
in [RFC1884]. Hosts are recommended to "generate addresses using
link-specific addresses as Interface ID such as 48 bit IEEE-802
MAC addresses".
July 1998:
[RFC2374] specifies "An IPv6 Aggregatable Global Unicast Address
Format" (obsoleting [RFC2373]) changing the size of the Interface
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ID to 64 bits, and specifies that that IIDs must be constructed in
IEEE EUI-64 format. How such identifiers are constructed becomes
specified in the appropriate "IPv6 over " specification such
as "IPv6 over Ethernet".
January 2001:
[RFC3041] recognizes the problem of network activity correlation,
and specifies temporary addresses. Temporary addresses are to be
used along with stable addresses.
August 2003:
[RFC3587] obsoletes [RFC2374], making the TLA/NLA structure
historic. The syntax and recommendations for the traditional
stable IIDs remain unchanged, though.
February 2006:
[RFC4291] is published as the latest "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", requiring the IIDs of the traditional (stable)
autoconfigured addresses to employ the Modified EUI-64 format.
The details of constructing such interface identifiers are defined
in the appropriate "IPv6 over " specifications.
March 2008:
[RFC5157] provides hints regarding how patterns in IPv6 addresses
could be leveraged for the purpose of address scanning.
December 2011:
[draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-00] notes that the
traditional scheme for generating stable addresses allows for
address scanning, and also does not prevent active node tracking.
It also specifies an alternative algorithm meant to replace IIDs
based on Modified EUI-64 format identifiers.
November 2012:
The 6man WG adopts [I-D.gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses] as a
working group item (as
[draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-00]). However, the
specified algorithm no longer formally replaces the Modified
EUI-64 format identifiers.
February 2013:
An address-scanning tool (scan6 of [IPv6-Toolkit]) that leverages
IPv6 address patterns is released [Gont2013].
July 2013:
[I-D.cooper-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy] elaborates on
the security and privacy properties of all known algorithms for
generating IPv6 IIDs.
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January 2014:
The 6man WG publishes [draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-00]
("Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers"),
recommending [I-D.ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses] for the
generation of stable addresses.
April 2014:
[RFC7217] is published, specifying "A Method for Generating
Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)" as an alternative to (but *not*
replacement of) Modified EUI-64 format IIDs.
March 2016:
[RFC7707] (formerly [I-D.gont-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning] and later
[I-D.ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning]), about "Network
Reconnaissance in IPv6 Networks", is published.
March 2016:
[RFC7721] (formerly
[I-D.cooper-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy] and later
[I-D.ietf-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy]), about "Security
and Privacy Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation
Mechanisms", is published.
May 2016:
[draft-gont-6man-non-stable-iids-00] is published, with the goal
of specifying requirements for non-stable addresses, and updating
[RFC4941] such that use of only temporary addresses is allowed.
May 2016:
[draft-gont-6man-address-usage-recommendations-00] is published,
providing an analysis of how different aspects on an address (from
stability to usage mode) affect their corresponding security and
privacy properties, and meaning to eventually provide advice in
this area.
February 2017:
The 6man WG publishes [RFC8064] ("Recommendation on Stable IPv6
Interface Identifiers") (formerly [I-D.ietf-6man-default-iids]),
with requirements for stable addresses and a recommendation to
employ [RFC7217] for the generation of stable addresses. It
formally updated a large number of RFCs.
March 2018:
[draft-fgont-6man-rfc4941bis-00] is published (as suggested by the
6man WG), to address flaws in [RFC4941] by revising it (as an
alternative to the [draft-gont-6man-non-stable-iids-00] effort,
published in March 2016).
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July 2018:
[draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-00] is adopted (as
[draft-fgont-6man-rfc4941bis-00]) as a WG item of the 6man WG.
March 2020:
[I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4941bis] passes WGLC.
7. NTP Reference IDs (REFIDs)
NTP [RFC5905] Reference IDs are employed to avoid degree-one timing
loops in scenarios where two NTP peers are (mutually) the time source
of each other.
June 2010:
[RFC5905], "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and
Algorithms Specification" is published. It specifies that for NTP
peers with stratum higher than 1 the REFID embeds the IPv4 Address
of the time source or an MD5 hash of the IPv6 address of the time
source.
July 2016:
[draft-stenn-ntp-not-you-refid-00] is published, describing the
information leakage produced via de NTP REFID. It proposes that
NTP returns a special REFID when a packet employs an IP Source
Address that is not believed to be a current NTP peer, but
otherwise generates and returns the traditional REFID. It is
subsequently adopted by the NTP WG as
[I-D.ietf-ntp-refid-updates].
April 2019:
[Gont-NTP] notes that the proposed fix specified in
[draft-ietf-ntp-refid-updates-00] is, at the very least, sub-
optimal.
8. Transport Protocol Ephemeral Port Numbers
Most (if not all) transport protocols employ "port numbers" to
demultiplex packets to the corresponding transport protocol
instances.
August 1980:
[RFC0768] notes that the UDP source port is optional and
identifies the port of the sending process. It does not specify
interoperability requirements for source port selection, nor does
it suggest possible ways to select port numbers. Most popular
implementations end up selecting source ports from a system-wide
global counter.
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September 1981:
[RFC0793] (the TCP specification) essentially describes the use of
port numbers, and specifies that port numbers should result in a
unique socket pair (local address, local port, remote address,
remote port). How ephemeral ports (i.e. port numbers for "active
opens") are selected, and the port range from which they are
selected, are left unspecified.
January 2009:
[RFC5452] mandates the use of port randomization for DNS
resolvers, and mandates that implementations must randomize ports
from the range (53 or 1024, and above) or the largest possible
port range. It does not recommend possible algorithms for port
randomization, although the document specifically targets DNS
resolvers, for which a simple port randomization suffices (e.g.
Algorithm 1 of [RFC6056]). This document led to the
implementation of port randomization in the DNS resolver
themselves, rather than in the underlying transport-protocols.
January 2011:
[RFC6056] notes that many TCP and UDP implementations result in
predictable port numbers, and also notes that many implementations
select port numbers from a small portion of the whole port number
space. It recommends the implementation and use of ephemeral port
randomization, proposes a number of possible algorithms for port
randomization, and also recommends to randomize port numbers over
the range 1024-65535.
March 2016:
[NIST-NTP] reports a non-normal distribution of the ephemeral port
numbers employed by the NTP clients of an Internet Time Service.
April 2019:
[I-D.gont-ntp-port-randomization] notes that some NTP
implementations employ the NTP service port (123) as the local
port for non-symmetric modes, and aims to update the NTP
specification to recommend port randomization in such cases, in
line with [RFC6056]. The proposal experiences some push-back in
the relevant working group (NTP WG) [NTP-PORTR], but is finally
adopted as a working group item as
[I-D.ietf-ntp-port-randomization].
9. IANA Considerations
There are no IANA registries within this document. The RFC-Editor
can remove this section before publication of this document as an
RFC.
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10. Security Considerations
This document analyzes the timeline of some sample IETF protocol
"numeric identifiers", and how the security and privacy properties of
such protocols has been affected as a result of it. It provides
concrete evidence that advice in this area is warranted.
[I-D.gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations] formally requires protocol
specifications to do a warranted analysis of the interoperability
properties of the transient numeric identifiers they specify, and to
recommend possible algorithms for their generation, such that
negative security and privacy properties are avoided.
[I-D.irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation] analyzes categorizes
transient numeric identifiers based on their interoperability
requirements and their associated failure modes, and recommends
possible algorithms to that can comply with the associated
requirements without resulting in negative security and privacy
properties.
11. Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank (in alphabetical order) Dave Crocker,
Christian Huitema, and Joe Touch, and Christopher Wood, for providing
valuable comments on earlier versions of this document.
The authors would like to thank (in alphabetical order) Steven
Bellovin, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Gre Norcie, and Martin Thomson, for
providing valuable comments on [I-D.gont-predictable-numeric-ids], on
which this document is based.
Section 5 of this document borrows text from [RFC6528], authored by
Fernando Gont and Steven Bellovin.
The authors would like to thank Christopher Wood for his guidance
during the publication process of this document.
The authors would like to thank Diego Armando Maradona for his magic
and inspiration.
12. References
12.1. Normative References
[RFC0768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
DOI 10.17487/RFC0768, August 1980,
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[RFC0791] Postel, J., "Internet Protocol", STD 5, RFC 791,
DOI 10.17487/RFC0791, September 1981,
.
[RFC0793] Postel, J., "Transmission Control Protocol", STD 7,
RFC 793, DOI 10.17487/RFC0793, September 1981,
.
[RFC1323] Jacobson, V., Braden, R., and D. Borman, "TCP Extensions
for High Performance", RFC 1323, DOI 10.17487/RFC1323, May
1992, .
[RFC1884] Hinden, R., Ed. and S. Deering, Ed., "IP Version 6
Addressing Architecture", RFC 1884, DOI 10.17487/RFC1884,
December 1995, .
[RFC2073] Rekhter, Y., Lothberg, P., Hinden, R., Deering, S., and J.
Postel, "An IPv6 Provider-Based Unicast Address Format",
RFC 2073, DOI 10.17487/RFC2073, January 1997,
.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
.
[RFC2373] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 2373, DOI 10.17487/RFC2373, July 1998,
.
[RFC2374] Hinden, R., O'Dell, M., and S. Deering, "An IPv6
Aggregatable Global Unicast Address Format", RFC 2374,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2374, July 1998,
.
[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, DOI 10.17487/RFC2460,
December 1998, .
[RFC3041] Narten, T. and R. Draves, "Privacy Extensions for
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6", RFC 3041,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3041, January 2001,
.
[RFC3587] Hinden, R., Deering, S., and E. Nordmark, "IPv6 Global
Unicast Address Format", RFC 3587, DOI 10.17487/RFC3587,
August 2003, .
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[RFC4291] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
2006, .
[RFC4862] Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless
Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862,
DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, September 2007,
.
[RFC4941] Narten, T., Draves, R., and S. Krishnan, "Privacy
Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in
IPv6", RFC 4941, DOI 10.17487/RFC4941, September 2007,
.
[RFC5452] Hubert, A. and R. van Mook, "Measures for Making DNS More
Resilient against Forged Answers", RFC 5452,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5452, January 2009,
.
[RFC5722] Krishnan, S., "Handling of Overlapping IPv6 Fragments",
RFC 5722, DOI 10.17487/RFC5722, December 2009,
.
[RFC6056] Larsen, M. and F. Gont, "Recommendations for Transport-
Protocol Port Randomization", BCP 156, RFC 6056,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6056, January 2011,
.
[RFC6528] Gont, F. and S. Bellovin, "Defending against Sequence
Number Attacks", RFC 6528, DOI 10.17487/RFC6528, February
2012, .
[RFC7217] Gont, F., "A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque
Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)", RFC 7217,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7217, April 2014,
.
[RFC8200] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
.
[RFC8415] Mrugalski, T., Siodelski, M., Volz, B., Yourtchenko, A.,
Richardson, M., Jiang, S., Lemon, T., and T. Winters,
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
RFC 8415, DOI 10.17487/RFC8415, November 2018,
.
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12.2. Informative References
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Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
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Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
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Gont, F., "Security Implications of Predictable Fragment
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Gont, F., "A method for Generating Stable Privacy-Enhanced
Addresses with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
(SLAAC)", draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01
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[I-D.gont-ntp-port-randomization]
Gont, F. and G. Gont, "Port Randomization in the Network
Time Protocol Version 4", draft-gont-ntp-port-
randomization-04 (work in progress), August 2019.
[I-D.gont-numeric-ids-sec-considerations]
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Transient Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network
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[I-D.gont-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning]
Gont, F. and T. Chown, "Network Reconnaissance in IPv6
Networks", draft-gont-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-02 (work in
progress), October 2012.
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Gont, F. and I. Arce, "Security and Privacy Implications
of Numeric Identifiers Employed in Network Protocols",
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March 2019.
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Gont, F., Cooper, A., Thaler, D., and S. LIU,
"Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers",
draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-16 (work in progress),
September 2016.
[I-D.ietf-6man-ipv6-address-generation-privacy]
Cooper, A., Gont, F., and D. Thaler, "Privacy
Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms",
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in progress), September 2015.
[I-D.ietf-6man-predictable-fragment-id]
Gont, F., "Security Implications of Predictable Fragment
Identification Values", draft-ietf-6man-predictable-
fragment-id-10 (work in progress), October 2015.
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(IPv6) Specification", draft-ietf-6man-rfc2460bis-13 (work
in progress), May 2017.
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[I-D.ietf-6man-rfc4941bis]
Gont, F., Krishnan, S., Narten, T., and R. Draves,
"Temporary Address Extensions for Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration in IPv6", draft-ietf-6man-rfc4941bis-09
(work in progress), April 2020.
[I-D.ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses]
Gont, F., "A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque
Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)", draft-ietf-6man-stable-
privacy-addresses-17 (work in progress), January 2014.
[I-D.ietf-ntp-port-randomization]
Gont, F., Gont, G., and M. Lichvar, "Port Randomization in
the Network Time Protocol Version 4", draft-ietf-ntp-port-
randomization-01 (work in progress), March 2020.
[I-D.ietf-ntp-refid-updates]
Stenn, H. and S. Goldberg, "Network Time Protocol REFID
Updates", draft-ietf-ntp-refid-updates-05 (work in
progress), March 2019.
[I-D.ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning]
Gont, F. and T. Chown, "Network Reconnaissance in IPv6
Networks", draft-ietf-opsec-ipv6-host-scanning-08 (work in
progress), August 2015.
[I-D.irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-generation]
Gont, F. and I. Arce, "On the Generation of Transient
Numeric Identifiers", draft-irtf-pearg-numeric-ids-
generation-01 (work in progress), February 2020.
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[RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035,
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[RFC5157] Chown, T., "IPv6 Implications for Network Scanning",
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[RFC5905] Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch,
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Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010,
.
[RFC6274] Gont, F., "Security Assessment of the Internet Protocol
Version 4", RFC 6274, DOI 10.17487/RFC6274, July 2011,
.
[RFC7258] Farrell, S. and H. Tschofenig, "Pervasive Monitoring Is an
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2014, .
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Networks", RFC 7707, DOI 10.17487/RFC7707, March 2016,
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Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms",
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.
[RFC7739] Gont, F., "Security Implications of Predictable Fragment
Identification Values", RFC 7739, DOI 10.17487/RFC7739,
February 2016, .
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"Recommendation on Stable IPv6 Interface Identifiers",
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Authors' Addresses
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
Evaristo Carriego 2644
Haedo, Provincia de Buenos Aires 1706
Argentina
Phone: +54 11 4650 8472
Email: fgont@si6networks.com
URI: https://www.si6networks.com
Ivan Arce
Quarkslab
Email: iarce@quarkslab.com
URI: https://www.quarkslab.com
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