A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IP Security Protocol Working Group of the IETF. Title : Secure Configuration of IPsec-Enabled Network Devices Author(s) : S. Kelly, M. St. Johns Filename : draft-ietf-ipsec-secconf-00.txt Pages : 18 Date : 14-Oct-98 Remote configuration of network devices which implement IPsec- related services is desirable as a matter of convenience and of scale. In some cases, these devices are installed on a network with no prior configuration. In such cases, secure mechanisms for bootstrap configuration are required. In this document the associated issues are examined, and a multi-tiered approach is proposed from which a specific method may be selected based upon the security requirements of the environment in which the security device exists. While the primary devices considered here are security gateways and bump-in-the-wire encryptors, many of the resulting conclusions may extend to other devices, including host IPsec implementations. Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-ipsec-secconf-00.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipsec-secconf-00.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: Africa: ftp.is.co.za Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au US East Coast: ftp.ietf.org US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ietf.org. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipsec-secconf-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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