Name: draft-ietf-send-cga-06
Title: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
State: Pending
Authors: Tuomas Aura
Group: Securing Neighbor Discovery (send)
Date: 2004-04-27
This document describes a method for binding a public signature key to an
IPv6 address in the Secure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) protocol.
Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) are IPv6 addresses where the
interface identifier is generated by computing a cryptographic one-way hash
function from a public key and auxiliary parameters. The binding between
the public key and the address can be verified by re-computing the hash
value and by comparing the hash with the interface identifier. Messages
sent from an IPv6 address can be protected by attaching the public key and
auxiliary parameters and by signing the message with the corresponding
private key. The protection works without a certification authority or
other security infrastructure.
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