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IPsec Gateway Failover Protocol
draft-sheffer-ipsec-failover-04

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Yaron Sheffer , Hannes Tschofenig , Lakshminath R. Dondeti , Vidya Narayanan
Last updated 2008-07-12
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Abstract

The Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol has a certain computational and communication overhead with respect to the number of round-trips required and the cryptographic operations involved. In remote access situations, the Extensible Authentication Protocol is used for authentication, which adds several more round trips and therefore latency. To re-establish security associations (SA) upon a failure recovery condition is time consuming, especially when an IPsec peer, such as a VPN gateway, needs to re-establish a large number of SAs with various end points. A high number of concurrent sessions might cause additional problems for an IPsec peer during SA re-establishment. In many failure cases it would be useful to provide an efficient way to resume an interrupted IKE/IPsec session. This document proposes an extension to IKEv2 that allows a client to re-establish an IKE SA with a gateway in a highly efficient manner, utilizing a previously established IKE SA. A client can reconnect to a gateway from which it was disconnected, or alternatively migrate to another gateway that is associated with the previous one. The proposed approach conveys IKEv2 state information, in the form of an encrypted ticket, to a VPN client that is later presented to the VPN gateway for re-authentication. The encrypted ticket can only be decrypted by the VPN gateway in order to restore state for faster session setup.

Authors

Yaron Sheffer
Hannes Tschofenig
Lakshminath R. Dondeti
Vidya Narayanan

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