Re: an SPD syntax example

[vamsi <vamsi@intotoinc.com>]

Hi,
    I felt that original SPD syntax is good, which provides very good
    flexibility and ease of administering the policies in large enterprise
    environments.

    Consider that, there are 50 discrete subnets in an organization and
    the security needs to be applied for port 25, port 80 and port 110.
    With the original approach (ASN1), proposed by Steve, it only requires
    configuration of 50 ranges of IP addresses, 3 ranges of Ports and
    put them in one Selector list.

    If we go by approach suggested by 'Ravi', configuration of 150
    selector lists need to be created. This problem compounds when the
    remote site has multiple discrete subnets. Consider that, remote site
    has 20 subnets and that requires 3000 Selectors lists at the local end.

    Due to this, I feel, original ASN1 text, with some minor modification
    would be good.

SPD ::= SEQUENCE of SPDEntry

SPDEntry ::= SET OF SelectorSet

SelectorSet ::= SEQUENCE {
         sourceAddr      AddrList,
         destAddr        AddrList,
         protocol        INTEGER,        -- 8 bits
           sourcePort   srcPorts,
           destPort       dstPorts
         }

AddrList ::=  SET OF AddrOrList

AddrOrList ::= CHOICE {
                         iPAddr  IPaddr  -- individual IP address
                         range   IPRange} -- IP address range

srcPorts :=  SET OF Ports

Ports :=  SEQUENCE OF {
                    startPort  start
                    endPort    end
               }
   Note: For clarity, I took ICMP part away.

If we go with this approach, some changes to 'Traffic Selector' in IKEv2 
are required.
It means that, each traffic Selector should be able to accommodate
        Number of IP address ranges
        <all IP address ranges>
         Protocol
         Number of Port ranges
         <all Port ranges>

thoughts?


Thanks
Vamsi
CTO Office
www.intoto.com


At 10:20 AM 1/22/2004 -0500, Stephen Kent wrote:


>>It is better to make this as close to IKEv2 Traffic Selector as
>>possible. Based on that, each IP address range should be combined with
>>Protocol/Port Range. This ASN1 description seems to be creating a set with
>>multiple IP address ranges to a single Protocol and Port (Range).
>
>
>Good point. I'll change the syntax, and the 2401bis text to align with the 
>IKEv2 proposal format more closely.  The effect is the same, ultimately, 
>in terms of associating a set of values with the same SA.
>
>>
>>AddrList ::= AddrOrRangeOrSubnet
>>
>>>
>>>  AddrOrList ::= CHOICE {
>>>                         iPAddr  IPaddr  -- individual IP address
>>>                         range   IPRange} -- IP address range
>>
>>Above should become
>>AddrOrRangeOrSubnet ::= CHOICE {
>>                          ipAddr IPaddr
>>                          range IPRange
>>                          subnet subNet
>>                       }
>
>I don't see a need to refer to subnets separately. ranges suffice.
>
>>  >
>>>  IPaddr ::= CHOICE {
>>>                         v4Addr          INTEGER, -- 32 bits
>>>                         v6Addr [0]      INTEGER } -- 128 bits
>>>
>>>  IPRange        ::=     CHOICE {
>>>                         v4range         SEQUENCE {
>>>                                                 start   INTEGER, -- 32 bits
>>>                                                 end     INTEGER } -- 32 
>>> bits
>>>                         v6range [0]     SEQUENCE {
>>>                                                 start   INTEGER, -- 128 
>>> bits
>>>                                                 end     INTEGER } } -- 
>>> 128 bits
>>
>>Internally, subnet and IPAddr should be converted to range, if IKEv2 is
>>used for key management.
>
>Yes, we ultimately convert to range for the selector payload.
>
>Steve