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the problems that occurred with the more ambitious PBN approaches. It has been used to create<br />

distributed firewall systems [70], <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the construction of discrete security zones with<strong>in</strong> the<br />

network <strong>in</strong>frastructure (i.e., elements of a network deployment with heightened or specialized<br />

security requirements different than the rest of the deployment). This rema<strong>in</strong>s a promis<strong>in</strong>g<br />

approach for implement<strong>in</strong>g PBN systems.<br />

The IETF (e.g., its former IPSP work<strong>in</strong>g group) has assembled several tools that can be<br />

optionally leveraged to create PBN systems us<strong>in</strong>g IPsec.<br />

• RFC 3586 describes the problem space and solution requirements for develop<strong>in</strong>g an IPSP<br />

configuration and management framework.<br />

• RFC 2704 describes the KeyNote policy language that can optionally be used to<br />

construct PBN systems. The KeyNote implementation functions as a compliance eng<strong>in</strong>e<br />

and is based on role-based access control techniques as encoded with<strong>in</strong> PKI attribute<br />

certificates.<br />

• Use of IPsec’s ESP (see RFC 4305) <strong>in</strong> Transport Mode to provide confidentiality, data<br />

orig<strong>in</strong> authentication, antireplay attack protection, and data <strong>in</strong>tegrity services to enhance<br />

network security between communicat<strong>in</strong>g devices (e.g., hosts-to-hosts, routers-to-routers)<br />

at a specific <strong>in</strong>tegrity level.<br />

The Defense Agency Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strong Man work orig<strong>in</strong>ally<br />

experimented with <strong>in</strong>tegrat<strong>in</strong>g KeyNote with IPsec’s Internet Key Exchange (see RFC 4306)<br />

protocol to create a very f<strong>in</strong>e-gra<strong>in</strong>ed authentication and access control <strong>in</strong>frastructure at the<br />

network layer [70]. These communications are secured by us<strong>in</strong>g IPsec <strong>in</strong> Transport Mode<br />

between communicat<strong>in</strong>g devices. A public implementation of this approach is freely available<br />

and is built <strong>in</strong>to the Open BSD 24 Unix OS. 25 This approach creates a tight knit PBN system that<br />

has not been widely deployed to date.<br />

However, IP deployments have been enhanc<strong>in</strong>g their network communication security by<br />

<strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly us<strong>in</strong>g native (unmodified) IPsec communications between their devices. DoD<br />

network systems (see section 5.2) and VPNs (see section 5.6) use IPsec’s ESP <strong>in</strong> Tunnel Mode<br />

to create secured multilevel network systems. This creates controlled and protected network<br />

enclaves that have significantly reduced user populations with<strong>in</strong> reduced networked-threat<br />

environments. Deployments are also <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gly us<strong>in</strong>g IPsec’s ESP <strong>in</strong> Transport Mode with<strong>in</strong> a<br />

common network enclave to create higher assurance communications with<strong>in</strong> that network.<br />

Through systematically us<strong>in</strong>g native (unmodified) IPsec capabilities, these deployments are<br />

creat<strong>in</strong>g network environments with significantly improved network security today.<br />

24<br />

25<br />

See http://www.OpenBSD.org<br />

Specifically, most of this functionality is built <strong>in</strong>to isakmpd (/usr/src/sb<strong>in</strong>/isakmpd) with<strong>in</strong> the OpenBSD<br />

operat<strong>in</strong>g system (see ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/src/sb<strong>in</strong>/isakmpd/).<br />

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