Re: Last Call: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol to Proposed Standard

From: Michael Richardson ([email protected])
Date: Tue Mar 31 1998 - 17:16:16 EST


>>>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <[email protected]> writes:
    Steven> You're right -- IPsec will not permit window-size
    Steven> spoofing. To understand why, imagine that an enemy were

  Are there not TCP options that allow the window size to be
expanded? I realize that those options are not widely deployed. I will
postulate this:
  - real systems without the expanded window size options probably
        don't have IPsec either.
  - VPN gateways already have a machine at each end that could
        do the window-size spoofing, and in the case of per-host
        keying, already have almost all the state as well. Seems like
        a neat value add to me.

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