Subject: Re: bin/28922: racoon leaves old SA's in kernel
To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/09/2005 22:56:04
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:42:38PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > >Synopsis: racoon leaves old SA's in kernel
>
> IPsec/IKE specification does not define how to re-negotiate keys
> nor how to use old/new key, and behavior is totally implementation-
> dependent. racoon and netbsd are following guidances in
> draft-jenkins-ipsec-rekeying-xx (keep old key and use old key until
> old key really expires).
This seems to result in traffic being discarded by the receiver, which
no longer has the old keys used by the sender.
Or am I missing something?
Should the key lifetime just be set to something extremely low to avoid
long-lasting problems?
Regards,
+ Kim
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Kimmo Suominen