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Host Identity Protocol :: RFC5201

Network Working Group R. Moskowitz
Request for Comments: 5201 ICSAlabs
Category: Experimental P. Nikander
P. Jokela, Ed.
Ericsson Research NomadicLab
T. Henderson
The Boeing Company
April 2008

Host Identity Protocol

Status of This Memo

This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

IESG Note

The following issues describe IESG concerns about this document. The
IESG expects that these issues will be addressed when future versions
of HIP are designed.

This document doesn't currently define support for parameterized
(randomized) hashing in signatures, support for negotiation of a key
derivation function, or support for combined encryption modes.

HIP defines the usage of RSA in signing and encrypting data. Current
recommendations propose usage of, for example, RSA OAEP/PSS for these
operations in new protocols. Changing the algorithms to more current
best practice should be considered.

The current specification is currently using HMAC for message
authentication. This is considered to be acceptable for an
experimental RFC, but future versions must define a more generic
method for message authentication, including the ability for other
MAC algorithms to be used.

SHA-1 is no longer a preferred hashing algorithm. This is noted also
by the authors, and it is understood that future, non-experimental
versions must consider more secure hashing algorithms.

HIP requires that an incoming packet's IP address be ignored. In
simple cases this can be done, but when there are security policies
based on incoming interface or IP address rules, the situation

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changes. The handling of data needs to be enhanced to cover
different types of network and security configurations, as well as to
meet local security policies.

Abstract

This memo specifies the details of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP).
HIP allows consenting hosts to securely establish and maintain shared
IP-layer state, allowing separation of the identifier and locator
roles of IP addresses, thereby enabling continuity of communications
across IP address changes. HIP is based on a Sigma-compliant Diffie-
Hellman key exchange, using public key identifiers from a new Host
Identity namespace for mutual peer authentication. The protocol is
designed to be resistant to denial-of-service (DoS) and man-in-the-
middle (MitM) attacks. When used together with another suitable
security protocol, such as the Encapsulated Security Payload (ESP),
it provides integrity protection and optional encryption for upper-
layer protocols, such as TCP and UDP.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. A New Namespace and Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. The HIP Base Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3. Memo Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1. Requirements Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2. Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Host Identifier (HI) and Its Representations . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. Host Identity Tag (HIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Generating a HIT from an HI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1. Creating a HIP Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1.1. HIP Puzzle Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.1.2. Puzzle Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.1.3. Authenticated Diffie-Hellman Protocol . . . . . . . . 14
4.1.4. HIP Replay Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.1.5. Refusing a HIP Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1.6. HIP Opportunistic Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.2. Updating a HIP Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.3. Error Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.4. HIP State Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.4.1. HIP States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.4.2. HIP State Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4.3. Simplified HIP State Diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.5. User Data Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.5.1. TCP and UDP Pseudo-Header Computation for User Data . 30

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4.5.2. Sending Data on HIP Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.5.3. Transport Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.5.4. Reboot and SA Timeout Restart of HIP . . . . . . . . 30
4.6. Certificate Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5. Packet Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.1. Payload Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.1.1. Checksum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1.2. HIP Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.1.3. HIP Fragmentation Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.2. HIP Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.2.1. TLV Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.2.2. Defining New Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.2.3. R1_COUNTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5.2.4. PUZZLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
5.2.5. SOLUTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.2.6. DIFFIE_HELLMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.2.7. HIP_TRANSFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5.2.8. HOST_ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
5.2.9. HMAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5.2.10. HMAC_2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5.2.11. HIP_SIGNATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5.2.12. HIP_SIGNATURE_2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5.2.13. SEQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.2.14. ACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
5.2.15. ENCRYPTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.2.16. NOTIFICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5.2.17. ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.2.18. ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.2.19. ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.2.20. ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5.3. HIP Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5.3.1. I1 - the HIP Initiator Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.3.2. R1 - the HIP Responder Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.3.3. I2 - the Second HIP Initiator Packet . . . . . . . . 61
5.3.4. R2 - the Second HIP Responder Packet . . . . . . . . 62
5.3.5. UPDATE - the HIP Update Packet . . . . . . . . . . . 62
5.3.6. NOTIFY - the HIP Notify Packet . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.3.7. CLOSE - the HIP Association Closing Packet . . . . . 64
5.3.8. CLOSE_ACK - the HIP Closing Acknowledgment Packet . . 64
5.4. ICMP Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.4.1. Invalid Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.4.2. Other Problems with the HIP Header and Packet
Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.4.3. Invalid Puzzle Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.4.4. Non-Existing HIP Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
6. Packet Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
6.1. Processing Outgoing Application Data . . . . . . . . . . 66
6.2. Processing Incoming Application Data . . . . . . . . . . 67

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6.3. Solving the Puzzle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
6.4. HMAC and SIGNATURE Calculation and Verification . . . . . 70
6.4.1. HMAC Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.4.2. Signature Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
6.5. HIP KEYMAT Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.6. Initiation of a HIP Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.6.1. Sending Multiple I1s in Parallel . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.6.2. Processing Incoming ICMP Protocol Unreachable
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.7. Processing Incoming I1 Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.7.1. R1 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
6.7.2. Handling Malformed Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.8. Processing Incoming R1 Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.8.1. Handling Malformed Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6.9. Processing Incoming I2 Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6.9.1. Handling Malformed Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.10. Processing Incoming R2 Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.11. Sending UPDATE Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.12. Receiving UPDATE Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
6.12.1. Handling a SEQ Parameter in a Received UPDATE
Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.12.2. Handling an ACK Parameter in a Received UPDATE
Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.13. Processing NOTIFY Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.14. Processing CLOSE Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
6.15. Processing CLOSE_ACK Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
6.16. Handling State Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
7. HIP Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Appendix A. Using Responder Puzzles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Appendix B. Generating a Public Key Encoding from an HI . . . . 99
Appendix C. Example Checksums for HIP Packets . . . . . . . . . 100
C.1. IPv6 HIP Example (I1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
C.2. IPv4 HIP Packet (I1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
C.3. TCP Segment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Appendix D. 384-Bit Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Appendix E. OAKLEY Well-Known Group 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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1. Introduction

This memo specifies the details of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP).
A high-level description of the protocol and the underlying
architectural thinking is available in the separate HIP architecture
description [RFC4423]. Briefly, the HIP architecture proposes an
alternative to the dual use of IP addresses as "locators" (routing
labels) and "identifiers" (endpoint, or host, identifiers). In HIP,
public cryptographic keys, of a public/private key pair, are used as
Host Identifiers, to which higher layer protocols are bound instead
of an IP address. By using public keys (and their representations)
as host identifiers, dynamic changes to IP address sets can be
directly authenticated between hosts, and if desired, strong
authentication between hosts at the TCP/IP stack level can be
obtained.

This memo specifies the base HIP protocol ("base exchange") used
between hosts to establish an IP-layer communications context, called
HIP association, prior to communications. It also defines a packet
format and procedures for updating an active HIP association. Other
elements of the HIP architecture are specified in other documents,
such as.

o "Using the Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) Transport Format
with the Host Identity Protocol (HIP)" [RFC5202]: how to use the
Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for integrity protection and
optional encryption

o "End-Host Mobility and Multihoming with the Host Identity
Protocol" [RFC5206]: how to support mobility and multihoming in
HIP

o "Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions"
[RFC5205]: how to extend DNS to contain Host Identity information

o "Host Identity Protocol (HIP) Rendezvous Extension" [RFC5204]:
using a rendezvous mechanism to contact mobile HIP hosts

1.1. A New Namespace and Identifiers

The Host Identity Protocol introduces a new namespace, the Host
Identity namespace. Some ramifications of this new namespace are
explained in the HIP architecture description [RFC4423].

There are two main representations of the Host Identity, the full
Host Identifier (HI) and the Host Identity Tag (HIT). The HI is a
public key and directly represents the Identity. Since there are
different public key algorithms that can be used with different key

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lengths, the HI is not good for use as a packet identifier, or as an
index into the various operational tables needed to support HIP.
Consequently, a hash of the HI, the Host Identity Tag (HIT), becomes
the operational representation. It is 128 bits long and is used in
the HIP payloads and to index the corresponding state in the end
hosts. The HIT has an important security property in that it is
self-certifying (see Section 3).

1.2. The HIP Base Exchange

The HIP base exchange is a two-party cryptographic protocol used to
establish communications context between hosts. The base exchange is
a Sigma-compliant [KRA03] four-packet exchange. The first party is
called the Initiator and the second party the Responder. The four-
packet design helps to make HIP DoS resilient. The protocol
exchanges Diffie-Hellman keys in the 2nd and 3rd packets, and
authenticates the parties in the 3rd and 4th packets. Additionally,
the Responder starts a puzzle exchange in the 2nd packet, with the
Initiator completing it in the 3rd packet before the Responder stores
any state from the exchange.

The exchange can use the Diffie-Hellman output to encrypt the Host
Identity of the Initiator in the 3rd packet (although Aura, et al.,
[AUR03] notes that such operation may interfere with packet-
inspecting middleboxes), or the Host Identity may instead be sent
unencrypted. The Responder's Host Identity is not protected. It
should be noted, however, that both the Initiator's and the
Responder's HITs are transported as such (in cleartext) in the
packets, allowing an eavesdropper with a priori knowledge about the
parties to verify their identities.

Data packets start to flow after the 4th packet. The 3rd and 4th HIP
packets may carry a data payload in the future. However, the details
of this are to be defined later as more implementation experience is
gained.

An existing HIP association can be updated using the update mechanism
defined in this document, and when the association is no longer
needed, it can be closed using the defined closing mechanism.

Finally, HIP is designed as an end-to-end authentication and key
establishment protocol, to be used with Encapsulated Security Payload
(ESP) [RFC5202] and other end-to-end security protocols. The base
protocol does not cover all the fine-grained policy control found in
Internet Key Exchange (IKE) [RFC4306] that allows IKE to support
complex gateway policies. Thus, HIP is not a replacement for IKE.

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1.3. Memo Structure

The rest of this memo is structured as follows. Section 2 defines
the central keywords, notation, and terms used throughout the rest of
the document. Section 3 defines the structure of the Host Identity
and its various representations. Section 4 gives an overview of the
HIP base exchange protocol. Sections 5 and 6 define the detail
packet formats and rules for packet processing. Finally, Sections 7,
8, and 9 discuss policy, security, and IANA considerations,
respectively.

2. Terms and Definitions

2.1. Requirements Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

2.2. Notation

[x] indicates that x is optional.

{x} indicates that x is encrypted.

X(y) indicates that y is a parameter of X.

i indicates that x exists i times.

--> signifies "Initiator to Responder" communication (requests).

<-- signifies "Responder to Initiator" communication (replies).

| signifies concatenation of information-- e.g., X | Y is the
concatenation of X with Y.

Ltrunc (SHA-1(), K) denotes the lowest order K bits of the SHA-1
result.

2.3. Definitions

Unused Association Lifetime (UAL): Implementation-specific time for
which, if no packet is sent or received for this time interval, a
host MAY begin to tear down an active association.

Maximum Segment Lifetime (MSL): Maximum time that a TCP segment is
expected to spend in the network.

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Exchange Complete (EC): Time that the host spends at the R2-SENT
before it moves to ESTABLISHED state. The time is n * I2
retransmission timeout, where n is about I2_RETRIES_MAX.

HIT Hash Algorithm: Hash algorithm used to generate a Host Identity
Tag (HIT) from the Host Identity public key. Currently SHA-1
[FIPS95] is used.

Responder's HIT Hash Algorithm (RHASH): Hash algorithm used for
various hash calculations in this document. The algorithm is the
same as is used to generate the Responder's HIT. RHASH is defined
by the Orchid Context ID. For HIP, the present RHASH algorithm is
defined in Section 3.2. A future version of HIP may define a new
RHASH algorithm by defining a new Context ID.

Opportunistic mode: HIP base exchange where the Responder's HIT is
not known a priori to the Initiator.

3. Host Identifier (HI) and Its Representations

In this section, the properties of the Host Identifier and Host
Identifier Tag are discussed, and the exact format for them is
defined. In HIP, the public key of an asymmetric key pair is used as
the Host Identifier (HI). Correspondingly, the host itself is
defined as the entity that holds the private key from the key pair.
See the HIP architecture specification [RFC4423] for more details
about the difference between an identity and the corresponding
identifier.

HIP implementations MUST support the Rivest Shamir Adelman (RSA/SHA1)
[RFC3110] public key algorithm, and SHOULD support the Digital
Signature Algorithm (DSA) [RFC2536] algorithm; other algorithms MAY
be supported.

A hashed encoding of the HI, the Host Identity Tag (HIT), is used in
protocols to represent the Host Identity. The HIT is 128 bits long
and has the following three key properties: i) it is the same length
as an IPv6 address and can be used in address-sized fields in APIs
and protocols, ii) it is self-certifying (i.e., given a HIT, it is
computationally hard to find a Host Identity key that matches the
HIT), and iii) the probability of HIT collision between two hosts is
very low.

Carrying HIs and HITs in the header of user data packets would
increase the overhead of packets. Thus, it is not expected that they
are carried in every packet, but other methods are used to map the
data packets to the corresponding HIs. In some cases, this makes it
possible to use HIP without any additional headers in the user data

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packets. For example, if ESP is used to protect data traffic, the
Security Parameter Index (SPI) carried in the ESP header can be used
to map the encrypted data packet to the correct HIP association.

3.1. Host Identity Tag (HIT)

The Host Identity Tag is a 128-bit value -- a hashed encoding of the
Host Identifier. There are two advantages of using a hashed encoding
over the actual Host Identity public key in protocols. Firstly, its
fixed length makes for easier protocol coding and also better manages
the packet size cost of this technology. Secondly, it presents a
consistent format to the protocol whatever underlying identity
technology is used.

RFC 4843 [RFC4843] specifies 128-bit hash-based identifiers, called
Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHIDs). Their
prefix, allocated from the IPv6 address block, is defined in
[RFC4843]. The Host Identity Tag is a type of ORCHID, based on a
SHA-1 hash of the Host Identity, as defined in Section 2 of
[RFC4843].

3.2. Generating a HIT from an HI

The HIT MUST be generated according to the ORCHID generation method
described in [RFC4843] using a context ID value of 0xF0EF F02F BFF4
3D0F E793 0C3C 6E61 74EA (this tag value has been generated randomly
by the editor of this specification), and an input that encodes the
Host Identity field (see Section 5.2.8) present in a HIP payload
packet. The hash algorithm SHA-1 has to be used when generating HITs
with this context ID. If a new ORCHID hash algorithm is needed in
the future for HIT generation, a new version of HIP has to be
specified with a new ORCHID context ID associated with the new hash
algorithm.

For Identities that are either RSA or Digital Signature Algorithm
(DSA) public keys, this input consists of the public key encoding as
specified in the corresponding DNSSEC document, taking the algorithm-
specific portion of the RDATA part of the KEY RR. There are
currently only two defined public key algorithms: RSA/SHA1 and DSA.
Hence, either of the following applies:

The RSA public key is encoded as defined in [RFC3110] Section 2,
taking the exponent length (e_len), exponent (e), and modulus (n)
fields concatenated. The length (n_len) of the modulus (n) can be
determined from the total HI Length and the preceding HI fields
including the exponent (e). Thus, the data to be hashed has the
same length as the HI. The fields MUST be encoded in network byte
order, as defined in [RFC3110].

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The DSA public key is encoded as defined in [RFC2536] Section 2,
taking the fields T, Q, P, G, and Y, concatenated. Thus, the data
to be hashed is 1 + 20 + 3 * 64 + 3 * 8 * T octets long, where T
is the size parameter as defined in [RFC2536]. The size parameter
T, affecting the field lengths, MUST be selected as the minimum
value that is long enough to accommodate P, G, and Y. The fields
MUST be encoded in network byte order, as defined in [RFC2536].

In Appendix B, the public key encoding process is illustrated using
pseudo-code.

4. Protocol Overview

The following material is an overview of the HIP protocol operation,
and does not contain all details of the packet formats or the packet
processing steps. Sections 5 and 6 describe in more detail the
packet formats and packet processing steps, respectively, and are
normative in case of any conflicts with this section.

The protocol number 139 has been assigned by IANA to the Host
Identity Protocol.

The HIP payload (Section 5.1) header could be carried in every IP
datagram. However, since HIP headers are relatively large (40
bytes), it is desirable to 'compress' the HIP header so that the HIP
header only occurs in control packets used to establish or change HIP
association state. The actual method for header 'compression' and
for matching data packets with existing HIP associations (if any) is
defined in separate documents, describing transport formats and
methods. All HIP implementations MUST implement, at minimum, the ESP
transport format for HIP [RFC5202].

4.1. Creating a HIP Association

By definition, the system initiating a HIP exchange is the Initiator,
and the peer is the Responder. This distinction is forgotten once
the base exchange completes, and either party can become the
Initiator in future communications.

The HIP base exchange serves to manage the establishment of state
between an Initiator and a Responder. The first packet, I1,
initiates the exchange, and the last three packets, R1, I2, and R2,
constitute an authenticated Diffie-Hellman [DIF76] key exchange for
session key generation. During the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, a
piece of keying material is generated. The HIP association keys are
drawn from this keying material. If other cryptographic keys are
needed, e.g., to be used with ESP, they are expected to be drawn from
the same keying material.

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The Initiator first sends a trigger packet, I1, to the Responder.
The packet contains only the HIT of the Initiator and possibly the
HIT of the Responder, if it is known. Note that in some cases it may
be possible to replace this trigger packet by some other form of a
trigger, in which case the protocol starts with the Responder sending
the R1 packet.

The second packet, R1, starts the actual exchange. It contains a
puzzle -- a cryptographic challenge that the Initiator must solve
before continuing the exchange. The level of difficulty of the
puzzle can be adjusted based on level of trust with the Initiator,
current load, or other factors. In addition, the R1 contains the
initial Diffie-Hellman parameters and a signature, covering part of
the message. Some fields are left outside the signature to support
pre-created R1s.

In the I2 packet, the Initiator must display the solution to the
received puzzle. Without a correct solution, the I2 message is
discarded. The I2 also contains a Diffie-Hellman parameter that
carries needed information for the Responder. The packet is signed
by the sender.

The R2 packet finalizes the base exchange. The packet is signed.

The base exchange is illustrated below. The term "key" refers to the
Host Identity public key, and "sig" represents a signature using such
a key. The packets contain other parameters not shown in this
figure.

Initiator Responder

I1: trigger exchange
-------------------------->
select precomputed R1
R1: puzzle, D-H, key, sig
<-------------------------
check sig remain stateless
solve puzzle
I2: solution, D-H, {key}, sig
-------------------------->
compute D-H check puzzle
check sig
R2: sig
<--------------------------
check sig compute D-H

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4.1.1. HIP Puzzle Mechanism

The purpose of the HIP puzzle mechanism is to protect the Responder
from a number of denial-of-service threats. It allows the Responder
to delay state creation until receiving I2. Furthermore, the puzzle
allows the Responder to use a fairly cheap calculation to check that
the Initiator is "sincere" in the sense that it has churned CPU
cycles in solving the puzzle.

The puzzle mechanism has been explicitly designed to give space for
various implementation options. It allows a Responder implementation
to completely delay session-specific state creation until a valid I2
is received. In such a case, a correctly formatted I2 can be
rejected only once the Responder has checked its validity by
computing one hash function. On the other hand, the design also
allows a Responder implementation to keep state about received I1s,
and match the received I2s against the state, thereby allowing the
implementation to avoid the computational cost of the hash function.
The drawback of this latter approach is the requirement of creating
state. Finally, it also allows an implementation to use other
combinations of the space-saving and computation-saving mechanisms.

The Responder can remain stateless and drop most spoofed I2s because
puzzle calculation is based on the Initiator's Host Identity Tag.
The idea is that the Responder has a (perhaps varying) number of pre-
calculated R1 packets, and it selects one of these based on the
information carried in I1. When the Responder then later receives
I2, it can verify that the puzzle has been solved using the
Initiator's HIT. This makes it impractical for the attacker to first
exchange one I1/R1, and then generate a large number of spoofed I2s
that seemingly come from different HITs. The method does not protect
from an attacker that uses fixed HITs, though. Against such an
attacker a viable approach may be to create a piece of local state,
and remember that the puzzle check has previously failed. See
Appendix A for one possible implementation. Implementations SHOULD
include sufficient randomness to the algorithm so that algorithmic
complexity attacks become impossible [CRO03].

The Responder can set the puzzle difficulty for Initiator, based on
its level of trust of the Initiator. Because the puzzle is not
included in the signature calculation, the Responder can use pre-
calculated R1 packets and include the puzzle just before sending the
R1 to the Initiator. The Responder SHOULD use heuristics to
determine when it is under a denial-of-service attack, and set the
puzzle difficulty value K appropriately; see below.

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4.1.2. Puzzle Exchange

The Responder starts the puzzle exchange when it receives an I1. The
Responder supplies a random number I, and requires the Initiator to
find a number J. To select a proper J, the Initiator must create the
concatenation of I, the HITs of the parties, and J, and take a hash
over this concatenation using the RHASH algorithm. The lowest order
K bits of the result MUST be zeros. The value K sets the difficulty
of the puzzle.

To generate a proper number J, the Initiator will have to generate a
number of Js until one produces the hash target of zeros. The
Initiator SHOULD give up after exceeding the puzzle lifetime in the
PUZZLE parameter (Section 5.2.4). The Responder needs to re-create
the concatenation of I, the HITs, and the provided J, and compute the
hash once to prove that the Initiator did its assigned task.

To prevent precomputation attacks, the Responder MUST select the
number I in such a way that the Initiator cannot guess it.
Furthermore, the construction MUST allow the Responder to verify that
the value was indeed selected by it and not by the Initiator. See
Appendix A for an example on how to implement this.

Using the Opaque data field in an ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED
(Section 5.2.17) or in an ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameter
(Section 5.2.18), the Responder can include some data in R1 that the
Initiator must copy unmodified in the corresponding I2 packet. The
Responder can generate the Opaque data in various ways; e.g., using
some secret, the sent I, and possibly other related data. Using the
same secret, the received I (from the I2), and the other related data
(if any), the Receiver can verify that it has itself sent the I to
the Initiator. The Responder MUST periodically change such a used
secret.

It is RECOMMENDED that the Responder generates a new puzzle and a new
R1 once every few minutes. Furthermore, it is RECOMMENDED that the
Responder remembers an old puzzle at least 2*Lifetime seconds after
the puzzle has been deprecated. These time values allow a slower
Initiator to solve the puzzle while limiting the usability that an
old, solved puzzle has to an attacker.

NOTE: The protocol developers explicitly considered whether R1 should
include a timestamp in order to protect the Initiator from replay
attacks. The decision was to NOT include a timestamp.

NOTE: The protocol developers explicitly considered whether a memory
bound function should be used for the puzzle instead of a CPU-bound
function. The decision was not to use memory-bound functions. At

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the time of the decision, the idea of memory-bound functions was
relatively new and their IPR status were unknown. Once there is more
experience about memory-bound functions and once their IPR status is
better known, it may be reasonable to reconsider this decision.

4.1.3. Authenticated Diffie-Hellman Protocol

The packets R1, I2, and R2 implement a standard authenticated Diffie-
Hellman exchange. The Responder sends one or two public Diffie-
Hellman keys and its public authentication key, i.e., its Host
Identity, in R1. The signature in R1 allows the Initiator to verify
that the R1 has been once generated by the Responder. However, since
it is precomputed and therefore does not cover all of the packet, it
does not protect from replay attacks.

When the Initiator receives an R1, it gets one or two public Diffie-
Hellman values from the Responder. If there are two values, it
selects the value corresponding to the strongest supported Group ID
and computes the Diffie-Hellman session key (Kij). It creates a HIP
association using keying material from the session key (see
Section 6.5), and may use the association to encrypt its public
authentication key, i.e., Host Identity. The resulting I2 contains
the Initiator's Diffie-Hellman key and its (optionally encrypted)
public authentication key. The signature in I2 covers all of the
packet.

The Responder extracts the Initiator Diffie-Hellman public key from
the I2, computes the Diffie-Hellman session key, creates a
corresponding HIP association, and decrypts the Initiator's public
authentication key. It can then verify the signature using the
authentication key.

The final message, R2, is needed to protect the Initiator from replay
attacks.

4.1.4. HIP Replay Protection

The HIP protocol includes the following mechanisms to protect against
malicious replays. Responders are protected against replays of I1
packets by virtue of the stateless response to I1s with presigned R1
messages. Initiators are protected against R1 replays by a
monotonically increasing "R1 generation counter" included in the R1.
Responders are protected against replays or false I2s by the puzzle
mechanism (Section 4.1.1 above), and optional use of opaque data.
Hosts are protected against replays to R2s and UPDATEs by use of a
less expensive HMAC verification preceding HIP signature
verification.

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The R1 generation counter is a monotonically increasing 64-bit
counter that may be initialized to any value. The scope of the
counter MAY be system-wide but SHOULD be per Host Identity, if there
is more than one local host identity. The value of this counter
SHOULD be kept across system reboots and invocations of the HIP base
exchange. This counter indicates the current generation of puzzles.
Implementations MUST accept puzzles from the current generation and
MAY accept puzzles from earlier generations. A system's local
counter MUST be incremented at least as often as every time old R1s
cease to be valid, and SHOULD never be decremented, lest the host
expose its peers to the replay of previously generated, higher
numbered R1s. The R1 counter SHOULD NOT roll over.

A host may receive more than one R1, either due to sending multiple
I1s (Section 6.6.1) or due to a replay of an old R1. When sending
multiple I1s, an Initiator SHOULD wait for a small amount of time (a
reasonable time may be 2 * expected RTT) after the first R1 reception
to allow possibly multiple R1s to arrive, and it SHOULD respond to an
R1 among the set with the largest R1 generation counter. If an
Initiator is processing an R1 or has already sent an I2 (still
waiting for R2) and it receives another R1 with a larger R1
generation counter, it MAY elect to restart R1 processing with the
fresher R1, as if it were the first R1 to arrive.

Upon conclusion of an active HIP association with another host, the
R1 generation counter associated with the peer host SHOULD be
flushed. A local policy MAY override the default flushing of R1
counters on a per-HIT basis. The reason for recommending the
flushing of this counter is that there may be hosts where the R1
generation counter (occasionally) decreases; e.g., due to hardware
failure.

4.1.5. Refusing a HIP Exchange

A HIP-aware host may choose not to accept a HIP exchange. If the
host's policy is to only be an Initiator, it should begin its own HIP
exchange. A host MAY choose to have such a policy since only the
Initiator's HI is protected in the exchange. There is a risk of a
race condition if each host's policy is to only be an Initiator, at
which point the HIP exchange will fail.

If the host's policy does not permit it to enter into a HIP exchange
with the Initiator, it should send an ICMP 'Destination Unreachable,
Administratively Prohibited' message. A more complex HIP packet is
not used here as it actually opens up more potential DoS attacks than
a simple ICMP message.

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4.1.6. HIP Opportunistic Mode

It is possible to initiate a HIP negotiation even if the Responder's
HI (and HIT) is unknown. In this case, the connection initializing
I1 packet contains NULL (all zeros) as the destination HIT. This
kind of connection setup is called opportunistic mode.

There are both security and API issues involved with the
opportunistic mode.

Given that the Responder's HI is not known by the Initiator, there
must be suitable API calls that allow the Initiator to request,
directly or indirectly, that the underlying kernel initiate the HIP
base exchange solely based on locators. The Responder's HI will be
tentatively available in the R1 packet, and in an authenticated form
once the R2 packet has been received and verified. Hence, it could
be communicated to the application via new API mechanisms. However,
with a backwards-compatible API the application sees only the
locators used for the initial contact. Depending on the desired
semantics of the API, this can raise the following issues:

o The actual locators may later change if an UPDATE message is used,
even if from the API perspective the session still appears to be
between specific locators. The locator update is still secure,
however, and the session is still between the same nodes.

o Different sessions between the same locators may result in
connections to different nodes, if the implementation no longer
remembers which identifier the peer had in another session. This
is possible when the peer's locator has changed for legitimate
reasons or when an attacker pretends to be a node that has the
peer's locator. Therefore, when using opportunistic mode, HIP
MUST NOT place any expectation that the peer's HI returned in the
R1 message matches any HI previously seen from that address.

If the HIP implementation and application do not have the same
understanding of what constitutes a session, this may even happen
within the same session. For instance, an implementation may not
know when HIP state can be purged for UDP-based applications.

o As with all HIP exchanges, the handling of locator-based or
interface-based policy is unclear for opportunistic mode HIP. An
application may make a connection to a specific locator because
the application has knowledge of the security properties along the
network to that locator. If one of the nodes moves and the
locators are updated, these security properties may not be
maintained. Depending on the security policy of the application,
this may be a problem. This is an area of ongoing study. As an

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example, there is work to create an API that applications can use
to specify their security requirements in a similar context
[IPsec-APIs].

In addition, the following security considerations apply. The
generation counter mechanism will be less efficient in protecting
against replays of the R1 packet, given that the Responder can choose
a replay that uses any HI, not just the one given in the I1 packet.

More importantly, the opportunistic exchange is vulnerable to man-in-
the-middle attacks, because the Initiator does not have any public
key information about the peer. To assess the impacts of this
vulnerability, we compare it to vulnerabilities in current, non-HIP-
capable communications.

An attacker on the path between the two peers can insert itself as a
man-in-the-middle by providing its own identifier to the Initiator
and then initiating another HIP session towards the Responder. For
this to be possible, the Initiator must employ opportunistic mode,
and the Responder must be configured to accept a connection from any
HIP-enabled node.

An attacker outside the path will be unable to do so, given that it
cannot respond to the messages in the base exchange.

These properties are characteristic also of communications in the
current Internet. A client contacting a server without employing
end-to-end security may find itself talking to the server via a man-
in-the-middle, assuming again that the server is willing to talk to
anyone.

If end-to-end security is in place, then the worst that can happen in
both the opportunistic HIP and normal IP cases is denial-of-service;
an entity on the path can disrupt communications, but will be unable
to insert itself as a man-in-the-middle.

However, once the opportunistic exchange has successfully completed,
HIP provides integrity protection and confidentiality for the
communications, and can securely change the locators of the
endpoints.

As a result, it is believed that the HIP opportunistic mode is at
least as secure as current IP.

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4.2. Updating a HIP Association

A HIP association between two hosts may need to be updated over time.
Examples include the need to rekey expiring user data security
associations, add new security associations, or change IP addresses
associated with hosts. The UPDATE packet is used for those and other
similar purposes. This document only specifies the UPDATE packet
format and basic processing rules, with mandatory parameters. The
actual usage is defined in separate specifications.

HIP provides a general purpose UPDATE packet, which can carry
multiple HIP parameters, for updating the HIP state between two
peers. The UPDATE mechanism has the following properties:

UPDATE messages carry a monotonically increasing sequence number
and are explicitly acknowledged by the peer. Lost UPDATEs or
acknowledgments may be recovered via retransmission. Multiple
UPDATE messages may be outstanding under certain circumstances.

UPDATE is protected by both HMAC and HIP_SIGNATURE parameters,
since processing UPDATE signatures alone is a potential DoS attack
against intermediate systems.

UPDATE packets are explicitly acknowledged by the use of an
acknowledgment parameter that echoes an individual sequence number
received from the peer. A single UPDATE packet may contain both a
sequence number and one or more acknowledgment numbers (i.e.,
piggybacked acknowledgment(s) for the peer's UPDATE).

The UPDATE packet is defined in Section 5.3.5.

4.3. Error Processing

HIP error processing behavior depends on whether or not there exists
an active HIP association. In general, if a HIP association exists
between the sender and receiver of a packet causing an error
condition, the receiver SHOULD respond with a NOTIFY packet. On the
other hand, if there are no existing HIP associations between the
sender and receiver, or the receiver cannot reasonably determine the
identity of the sender, the receiver MAY respond with a suitable ICMP
message; see Section 5.4 for more details.

The HIP protocol and state machine is designed to recover from one of
the parties crashing and losing its state. The following scenarios
describe the main use cases covered by the design.

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No prior state between the two systems.

The system with data to send is the Initiator. The process
follows the standard four-packet base exchange, establishing
the HIP association.

The system with data to send has no state with the receiver, but
the receiver has a residual HIP association.

The system with data to send is the Initiator. The Initiator
acts as in no prior state, sending I1 and getting R1. When the
Responder receives a valid I2, the old association is
'discovered' and deleted, and the new association is
established.

The system with data to send has a HIP association, but the
receiver does not.

The system sends data on the outbound user data security
association. The receiver 'detects' the situation when it
receives a user data packet that it cannot match to any HIP
association. The receiving host MUST discard this packet.

Optionally, the receiving host MAY send an ICMP packet, with
the type Parameter Problem, to inform the sender that the HIP
association does not exist (see Section 5.4), and it MAY
initiate a new HIP negotiation. However, responding with these
optional mechanisms is implementation or policy dependent.

4.4. HIP State Machine

The HIP protocol itself has little state. In the HIP base exchange,
there is an Initiator and a Responder. Once the security
associations (SAs) are established, this distinction is lost. If the
HIP state needs to be re-established, the controlling parameters are
which peer still has state and which has a datagram to send to its
peer. The following state machine attempts to capture these
processes.

The state machine is presented in a single system view, representing
either an Initiator or a Responder. There is not a complete overlap
of processing logic here and in the packet definitions. Both are
needed to completely implement HIP.

Implementors must understand that the state machine, as described
here, is informational. Specific implementations are free to
implement the actual functions differently. Section 6 describes the
packet processing rules in more detail. This state machine focuses

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on the HIP I1, R1, I2, and R2 packets only. Other states may be
introduced by mechanisms in other specifications (such as mobility
and multihoming).

4.4.1. HIP States

Table 1: HIP States

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4.4.2. HIP State Processes

System behavior in state UNASSOCIATED, Table 2.

Table 2: UNASSOCIATED - Start state

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System behavior in state I1-SENT, Table 3.

Table 3: I1-SENT - Initiating HIP

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System behavior in state I2-SENT, Table 4.

Table 4: I2-SENT - Waiting to finish HIP

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System behavior in state R2-SENT, Table 5.

Table 5: R2-SENT - Waiting to finish HIP

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System behavior in state ESTABLISHED, Table 6.

Table 6: ESTABLISHED - HIP association established

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System behavior in state CLOSING, Table 7.

Table 7: CLOSING - HIP association has not been used for UAL minutes

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System behavior in state CLOSED, Table 8.

Table 8: CLOSED - CLOSE_ACK sent, resending CLOSE_ACK if necessary

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System behavior in state E-FAILED, Table 9.

Table 9: E-FAILED - HIP failed to establish association with peer

4.4.3. Simplified HIP State Diagram

The following diagram shows the major state transitions. Transitions
based on received packets implicitly assume that the packets are
successfully authenticated or processed.

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+-+ +---------------------------+
I1 received, send R1 | | | |
| v v |
Datagram to send +--------------+ I2 received, send R2 |
+---------------| UNASSOCIATED |---------------+ |
Send I1 | +--------------+ | |
v | |
+---------+ I2 received, send R2 | |
+---->| I1-SENT |---------------------------------------+ | |
| +---------+ | | |
| | +------------------------+ | | |
| | R1 received, | I2 received, send R2 | | | |
| v send I2 | v v v |
| +---------+ | +---------+ |
| +->| I2-SENT |------------+ | R2-SENT |<----+ |
| | +---------+ +---------+ | |
| | | | | |
| | | data| | |
| |receive | or| | |
| |R1, send | EC timeout| receive I2,| |
| |I2 |R2 received +--------------+ | send R2| |
| | +----------->| ESTABLISHED |<-------+| | |
| | +--------------+ | |
| | | | | receive I2, send R2 | |
| | recv+------------+ | +------------------------+ |
| | CLOSE,| | | |
| | send| No packet sent| | |
| | CLOSE_ACK| /received for | timeout | |
| | | UAL min, send | +---------+<-+ (UAL+MSL) | |
| | | CLOSE +--->| CLOSING |--+ retransmit | |
| | | +---------+ CLOSE | |
+--|------------|----------------------+ | | | | | |
+------------|------------------------+ | | +----------------+ |
| | +-----------+ +------------------|--+
| +------------+ | receive CLOSE, CLOSE_ACK | |
| | | send CLOSE_ACK received or | |
| | | timeout | |
| | | (UAL+MSL) | |
| v v | |
| +--------+ receive I2, send R2 | |
+------------------------| CLOSED |---------------------------+ |
+--------+ /----------------------+
^ | \-------/ timeout (UAL+2MSL),
+-+ move to UNASSOCIATED
CLOSE received, send CLOSE_ACK

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4.5. User Data Considerations

4.5.1. TCP and UDP Pseudo-Header Computation for User Data

When computing TCP and UDP checksums on user data packets that flow
through sockets bound to HITs, the IPv6 pseudo-header format
[RFC2460] MUST be used, even if the actual addresses on the packet
are IPv4 addresses. Additionally, the HITs MUST be used in the place
of the IPv6 addresses in the IPv6 pseudo-header. Note that the
pseudo-header for actual HIP payloads is computed differently; see
Section 5.1.1.

4.5.2. Sending Data on HIP Packets

A future version of this document may define how to include user data
on various HIP packets. However, currently the HIP header is a
terminal header, and not followed by any other headers.

4.5.3. Transport Formats

The actual data transmission format, used for user data after the HIP
base exchange, is not defined in this document. Such transport
formats and methods are described in separate specifications. All
HIP implementations MUST implement, at minimum, the ESP transport
format for HIP [RFC5202].

When new transport formats are defined, they get the type value from
the HIP Transform type value space 2048-4095. The order in which the
transport formats are presented in the R1 packet, is the preferred
order. The last of the transport formats MUST be ESP transport
format, represented by the ESP_TRANSFORM parameter.

4.5.4. Reboot and SA Timeout Restart of HIP

Simulating a loss of state is a potential DoS attack. The following
process has been crafted to manage state recovery without presenting
a DoS opportunity.

If a host reboots or the HIP association times out, it has lost its
HIP state. If the host that lost state has a datagram to send to the
peer, it simply restarts the HIP base exchange. After the base
exchange has completed, the Initiator can create a new SA and start
sending data. The peer does not reset its state until it receives a
valid I2 HIP packet.

If a system receives a user data packet that cannot be matched to any
existing HIP association, it is possible that it has lost the state
and its peer has not. It MAY send an ICMP packet with the Parameter

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Problem type, and with the pointer pointing to the referred HIP-
related association information. Reacting to such traffic depends on
the implementation and the environment where the implementation is
used.

If the host, that apparently has lost its state, decides to restart
the HIP base exchange, it sends an I1 packet to the peer. After the
base exchange has been completed successfully, the Initiator can
create a new HIP association and the peer drops its old SA and
creates a new one.

4.6. Certificate Distribution

This document does not define how to use certificates or how to
transfer them between hosts. These functions are expected to be
defined in a future specification. A parameter type value, meant to
be used for carrying certificates, is reserved, though: CERT, Type
768; see Section 5.2.

5. Packet Formats

5.1. Payload Format

All HIP packets start with a fixed header.

0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Next Header | Header Length |0| Packet Type | VER. | RES.|1|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Checksum | Controls |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Sender's Host Identity Tag (HIT) |
| |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Receiver's Host Identity Tag (HIT) |
| |
| |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
/ HIP Parameters /
/ /
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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The HIP header is logically an IPv6 extension header. However, this
document does not describe processing for Next Header values other
than decimal 59, IPPROTO_NONE, the IPv6 'no next header' value.
Future documents MAY do so. However, current implementations MUST
ignore trailing data if an unimplemented Next Header value is
received.

The Header Length field contains the length of the HIP Header and HIP
parameters in 8-byte units, excluding the first 8 bytes. Since all
HIP headers MUST contain the sender's and receiver's HIT fields, the
minimum value for this field is 4, and conversely, the maximum length
of the HIP Parameters field is (255*8)-32 = 2008 bytes. Note: this
sets an additional limit for sizes of parameters included in the
Parameters field, independent of the individual parameter maximum
lengths.

The Packet Type indicates the HIP packet type. The individual packet
types are defined in the relevant sections. If a HIP host receives a
HIP packet that contains an unknown packet type, it MUST drop the
packet.

The HIP Version is four bits. The current version is 1. The version
number is expected to be incremented only if there are incompatible
changes to the protocol. Most extensions can be handled by defining
new packet types, new parameter types, or new controls.

The following three bits are reserved for future use. They MUST be
zero when sent, and they SHOULD be ignored when handling a received
packet.

The two fixed bits in the header are reserved for potential SHIM6
compatibility [SHIM6-PROTO]. For implementations adhering (only) to
this specification, they MUST be set as shown when sending and MUST
be ignored when receiving. This is to ensure optimal forward
compatibility. Note that for implementations that implement other
compatible specifications in addition to this specification, the
corresponding rules may well be different. For example, in the case
that the forthcoming SHIM6 protocol happens to be compatible with
this specification, an implementation that implements both this
specification and the SHIM6 protocol may need to check these bits in
order to determine how to handle the packet.

The HIT fields are always 128 bits (16 bytes) long.

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5.1.1. Checksum

Since the checksum covers the source and destination addresses in the
IP header, it must be recomputed on HIP-aware NAT devices.

If IPv6 is used to carry the HIP packet, the pseudo-header [RFC2460]
contains the source and destination IPv6 addresses, HIP packet length
in the pseudo-header length field, a zero field, and the HIP protocol
number (see Section 4) in the Next Header field. The length field is
in bytes and can be calculated from the HIP header length field: (HIP
Header Length + 1) * 8.

In case of using IPv4, the IPv4 UDP pseudo-header format [RFC0768] is
used. In the pseudo-header, the source and destination addresses are
those used in the IP header, the zero field is obviously zero, the
protocol is the HIP protocol number (see Section 4), and the length
is calculated as in the IPv6 case.

5.1.2. HIP Controls

The HIP Controls section conveys information about the structure of
the packet and capabilities of the host.

The following fields have been defined:

+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |A|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

A - Anonymous: If this is set, the sender's HI in this packet is
anonymous, i.e., one not listed in a directory. Anonymous HIs
SHOULD NOT be stored. This control is set in packets R1 and/or
I2. The peer receiving an anonymous HI may choose to refuse it.

The rest of the fields are reserved for future use and MUST be set to
zero on sent packets and ignored on received packets.

5.1.3. HIP Fragmentation Support

A HIP implementation must support IP fragmentation/reassembly.
Fragment reassembly MUST be implemented in both IPv4 and IPv6, but
fragment generation is REQUIRED to be implemented in IPv4 (IPv4
stacks and networks will usually do this by default) and RECOMMENDED
to be implemented in IPv6. In IPv6 networks, the minimum MTU is
larger, 1280 bytes, than in IPv4 networks. The larger MTU size is
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generation may not be needed. If a host expects to send HIP packets
that are larger than the minimum IPv6 MTU, it MUST implement fragment
generation even for IPv6.

In IPv4 networks, HIP packets may encounter low MTUs along their
routed path. Since HIP does not provide a mechanism to use multiple
IP datagrams for a single HIP packet, support for path MTU discovery
does not bring any value to HIP in IPv4 networks. HIP-aware NAT
devices MUST perform any IPv4 reassembly/fragmentation.

All HIP implementations have to be careful while employing a
reassembly algorithm so that the algorithm is sufficiently resistant
to DoS attacks.

Because certificate chains can cause the packet to be fragmented and
fragmentation can open implementation to denial-of-service attacks
[KAU03], it is strongly recommended that the separate document
specifying the certificate usage in the HIP Base Exchange defines the
usage of "Hash and URL" formats rather than including certificates in
exchanges. With this, most problems related to DoS attacks with
fragmentation can be avoided.

5.2. HIP Parameters

The HIP Parameters are used to carry the public key associated with
the sender's HIT, together with related security and other
information. They consist of ordered parameters, encoded in TLV
format.

The following parameter types are currently defined.

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Because the ordering (from lowest to highest) of HIP parameters is
strictly enforced (see Section 5.2.1), the parameter type values for
existing parameters have been spaced to allow for future protocol
extensions. Parameters numbered between 0-1023 are used in HIP
handshake and update procedures and are covered by signatures.
Parameters numbered between 1024-2047 are reserved. Parameters
numbered between 2048-4095 are used for parameters related to HIP
transform types. Parameters numbered between 4096 and (2^16 - 2^12)
61439 are reserved. Parameters numbered between 61440-62463 are used
for signatures and signed MACs. Parameters numbered between 62464-
63487 are used for parameters that fall outside of the signed area of
the packet. Parameters numbered between 63488-64511 are used for
rendezvous and other relaying services. Parameters numbered between
64512-65535 are reserved.

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5.2.1. TLV Format

The TLV-encoded parameters are described in the following
subsections. The type-field value also describes the order of these
fields in the packet, except for type values from 2048 to 4095 which
are reserved for new transport forms. The parameters MUST be
included in the packet such that their types form an increasing
order. If the parameter can exist multiple times in the packet, the
type value may be the same in consecutive parameters. If the order
does not follow this rule, the packet is considered to be malformed
and it MUST be discarded.

Parameters using type values from 2048 up to 4095 are transport
formats. Currently, one transport format is defined: the ESP
transport format [RFC5202]. The order of these parameters does not
follow the order of their type value, but they are put in the packet
in order of preference. The first of the transport formats it the
most preferred, and so on.

All of the TLV parameters have a length (including Type and Length
fields), which is a multiple of 8 bytes. When needed, padding MUST
be added to the end of the parameter so that the total length becomes
a multiple of 8 bytes. This rule ensures proper alignment of data.
Any added padding bytes MUST be zeroed by the sender, and their
values SHOULD NOT be checked by the receiver.

Consequently, the Length field indicates the length of the Contents
field (in bytes). The total length of the TLV parameter (including
Type, Length, Contents, and Padding) is related to the Length field
according to the following formula:

Total Length = 11 + Length - (Length + 3) % 8;

where % is the modulo operator

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type |C| Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
/ Contents /
/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| | Padding |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type Type code for the parameter. 16 bits long, C-bit
being part of the Type code.
C Critical. One if this parameter is critical, and
MUST be recognized by the recipient, zero otherwise.
The C bit is considered to be a part of the Type
field. Consequently, critical parameters are always
odd and non-critical ones have an even value.
Length Length of the Contents, in bytes.
Contents Parameter specific, defined by Type
Padding Padding, 0-7 bytes, added if needed

Critical parameters MUST be recognized by the recipient. If a
recipient encounters a critical parameter that it does not recognize,
it MUST NOT process the packet any further. It MAY send an ICMP or
NOTIFY, as defined in Section 4.3.

Non-critical parameters MAY be safely ignored. If a recipient
encounters a non-critical parameter that it does not recognize, it
SHOULD proceed as if the parameter was not present in the received
packet.

5.2.2. Defining New Parameters

Future specifications may define new parameters as needed. When
defining new parameters, care must be taken to ensure that the
parameter type values are appropriate and leave suitable space for
other future extensions. One must remember that the parameters MUST
always be arranged in increasing order by Type code, thereby limiting
the order of parameters (see Section 5.2.1).

The following rules must be followed when defining new parameters.

1. The low-order bit C of the Type code is used to distinguish
between critical and non-critical parameters.

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2. A new parameter may be critical only if an old recipient ignoring
it would cause security problems. In general, new parameters
SHOULD be defined as non-critical, and expect a reply from the
recipient.

3. If a system implements a new critical parameter, it MUST provide
the ability to set the associated feature off, such that the
critical parameter is not sent at all. The configuration option
must be well documented. Implementations operating in a mode
adhering to this specification MUST disable the sending of new
critical parameters. In other words, the management interface
MUST allow vanilla standards-only mode as a default configuration
setting, and MAY allow new critical payloads to be configured on
(and off).

4. See Section 9 for allocation rules regarding Type codes.

5.2.3. R1_COUNTER

Type 128
Length 12
R1 generation
counter The current generation of valid puzzles

The R1_COUNTER parameter contains a 64-bit unsigned integer in
network-byte order, indicating the current generation of valid
puzzles. The sender is supposed to increment this counter
periodically. It is RECOMMENDED that the counter value is
incremented at least as often as old PUZZLE values are deprecated so
that SOLUTIONs to them are no longer accepted.

The R1_COUNTER parameter is optional. It SHOULD be included in the
R1 (in which case, it is covered by the signature), and if present in
the R1, it MAY be echoed (including the Reserved field verbatim) by
the Initiator in the I2.

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5.2.4. PUZZLE

Type 257
Length 12
K K is the number of verified bits
Lifetime puzzle lifetime 2^(value-32) seconds
Opaque data set by the Responder, indexing the puzzle
Random #I random number

Random #I is represented as a 64-bit integer, K and Lifetime as 8-bit
integers, all in network byte order.

The PUZZLE parameter contains the puzzle difficulty K and a 64-bit
puzzle random integer #I. The Puzzle Lifetime indicates the time
during which the puzzle solution is valid, and sets a time limit that
should not be exceeded by the Initiator while it attempts to solve
the puzzle. The lifetime is indicated as a power of 2 using the
formula 2^(Lifetime-32) seconds. A puzzle MAY be augmented with an
ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED or an ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameter included in
the R1; the contents of the echo request are then echoed back in the
ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED or in the ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED, allowing the
Responder to use the included information as a part of its puzzle
processing.

The Opaque and Random #I field are not covered by the HIP_SIGNATURE_2
parameter.

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5.2.5. SOLUTION

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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| K, 1 byte | Reserved | Opaque, 2 bytes |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Random #I, 8 bytes |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Puzzle solution #J, 8 bytes |
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type 321
Length 20
K K is the number of verified bits
Reserved zero when sent, ignored when received
Opaque copied unmodified from the received PUZZLE
parameter
Random #I random number
Puzzle solution #J random number

Random #I and Random #J are represented as 64-bit integers, K as an
8-bit integer, all in network byte order.

The SOLUTION parameter contains a solution to a puzzle. It also
echoes back the random difficulty K, the Opaque field, and the puzzle
integer #I.

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5.2.6. DIFFIE_HELLMAN

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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Group ID | Public Value Length | Public Value /
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
/ |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Group ID | Public Value Length | Public Value /
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
/ | padding |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type 513
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
padding
Group ID defines values for p and g
Public Value length of the following Public Value in octets
Length
Public Value the sender's public Diffie-Hellman key

The following Group IDs have been defined:

Group Value
Reserved 0
384-bit group 1
OAKLEY well-known group 1 2
1536-bit MODP group 3
3072-bit MODP group 4
6144-bit MODP group 5
8192-bit MODP group 6

The MODP Diffie-Hellman groups are defined in [RFC3526]. The OAKLEY
well-known group 1 is defined in Appendix E.

The sender can include at most two different Diffie-Hellman public
values in the DIFFIE_HELLMAN parameter. This gives the possibility,
e.g., for a server to provide a weaker encryption possibility for a
PDA host that is not powerful enough. It is RECOMMENDED that the
Initiator, receiving more than one public value, selects the stronger
one, if it supports it.

A HIP implementation MUST implement Group IDs 1 and 3. The 384-bit
group can be used when lower security is enough (e.g., web surfing)
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is REQUIRED that the default configuration allows Group ID 1 usage,
but it is RECOMMENDED that applications that need stronger security
turn Group ID 1 support off. Equipment powerful enough SHOULD
implement also Group ID 5. The 384-bit group is defined in
Appendix D.

To avoid unnecessary failures during the base exchange, the rest of
the groups SHOULD be implemented in hosts where resources are
adequate.

5.2.7. HIP_TRANSFORM

Type 577
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
padding
Suite ID defines the HIP Suite to be used

The following Suite IDs are defined ([RFC4307],[RFC2451]):

Suite ID Value

RESERVED 0
AES-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 1
3DES-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 2
3DES-CBC with HMAC-MD5 3
BLOWFISH-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 4
NULL-ENCRYPT with HMAC-SHA1 5
NULL-ENCRYPT with HMAC-MD5 6

The sender of a HIP_TRANSFORM parameter MUST make sure that there are
no more than six (6) HIP Suite IDs in one HIP_TRANSFORM parameter.
Conversely, a recipient MUST be prepared to handle received transport
parameters that contain more than six Suite IDs by accepting the
first six Suite IDs and dropping the rest. The limited number of
transforms sets the maximum size of HIP_TRANSFORM parameter. As the
default configuration, the HIP_TRANSFORM parameter MUST contain at
least one of the mandatory Suite IDs. There MAY be a configuration
option that allows the administrator to override this default.

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The Responder lists supported and desired Suite IDs in order of
preference in the R1, up to the maximum of six Suite IDs. The
Initiator MUST choose only one of the corresponding Suite IDs. That
Suite ID will be used for generating the I2.

Mandatory implementations: AES-CBC with HMAC-SHA1 and NULL-ENCRYPTION
with HMAC-SHA1.

5.2.8. HOST_ID

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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| HI Length |DI-type| DI Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Host Identity /
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
/ | Domain Identifier /
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
/ | Padding |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type 705
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
HI Length length of the Host Identity in octets
DI-type type of the following Domain Identifier field
DI Length length of the FQDN or NAI in octets
Host Identity actual Host Identity
Domain Identifier the identifier of the sender

The Host Identity is represented in RFC 4034 [RFC4034] format. The
algorithms used in RDATA format are the following:

Algorithms Values

RESERVED 0
DSA 3 [RFC2536] (RECOMMENDED)
RSA/SHA1 5 [RFC3110] (REQUIRED)

The following DI-types have been defined:

Type Value
none included 0
FQDN 1
NAI 2

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FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name, in binary format.
NAI Network Access Identifier

The format for the FQDN is defined in RFC 1035 [RFC1035] Section 3.1.
The format for NAI is defined in [RFC4282]

If there is no Domain Identifier, i.e., the DI-type field is zero,
the DI Length field is set to zero as well.

5.2.9. HMAC

Type 61505
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
HMAC HMAC computed over the HIP packet, excluding the
HMAC parameter and any following parameters, such
as HIP_SIGNATURE, HIP_SIGNATURE_2,
ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED, or ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED.
The checksum field MUST be set to zero and the HIP
header length in the HIP common header MUST be
calculated not to cover any excluded parameters
when the HMAC is calculated. The size of the
HMAC is the natural size of the hash computation
output depending on the used hash function.

The HMAC calculation and verification process is presented in
Section 6.4.1.

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5.2.10. HMAC_2

The parameter structure is the same as in Section 5.2.9. The fields
are:

Type 61569
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
HMAC HMAC computed over the HIP packet, excluding the
HMAC parameter and any following parameters such
as HIP_SIGNATURE, HIP_SIGNATURE_2,
ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED, or ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED,
and including an additional sender's HOST_ID
parameter during the HMAC calculation. The
checksum field MUST be set to zero and the HIP
header length in the HIP common header MUST be
calculated not to cover any excluded parameters
when the HMAC is calculated. The size of the
HMAC is the natural size of the hash computation
output depending on the used hash function.

The HMAC calculation and verification process is presented in
Section 6.4.1.

5.2.11. HIP_SIGNATURE

Type 61697
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
SIG alg signature algorithm
Signature the signature is calculated over the HIP packet,
excluding the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter and any
parameters that follow the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter.
The checksum field MUST be set to zero, and the HIP
header length in the HIP common header MUST be
calculated only to the beginning of the
HIP_SIGNATURE parameter when the signature is
calculated.

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The signature algorithms are defined in Section 5.2.8. The signature
in the Signature field is encoded using the proper method depending
on the signature algorithm (e.g., according to [RFC3110] in case of
RSA/SHA1, or according to [RFC2536] in case of DSA).

The HIP_SIGNATURE calculation and verification process is presented
in Section 6.4.2.

5.2.12. HIP_SIGNATURE_2

The parameter structure is the same as in Section 5.2.11. The fields
are:

Type 61633
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
SIG alg signature algorithm
Signature Within the R1 packet that contains the HIP_SIGNATURE_2
parameter, the Initiator's HIT, the checksum
field, and the Opaque and Random #I fields in the
PUZZLE parameter MUST be set to zero while
computing the HIP_SIGNATURE_2 signature. Further,
the HIP packet length in the HIP header MUST be
adjusted as if the HIP_SIGNATURE_2 was not in the
packet during the signature calculation, i.e., the
HIP packet length points to the beginning of
the HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameter during signing and
verification.

Zeroing the Initiator's HIT makes it possible to create R1 packets
beforehand, to minimize the effects of possible DoS attacks. Zeroing
the Random #I and Opaque fields within the PUZZLE parameter allows
these fields to be populated dynamically on precomputed R1s.

Signature calculation and verification follows the process in
Section 6.4.2.

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5.2.13. SEQ

Type 385
Length 4
Update ID 32-bit sequence number

The Update ID is an unsigned quantity, initialized by a host to zero
upon moving to ESTABLISHED state. The Update ID has scope within a
single HIP association, and not across multiple associations or
multiple hosts. The Update ID is incremented by one before each new
UPDATE that is sent by the host; the first UPDATE packet originated
by a host has an Update ID of 0.

5.2.14. ACK

Type 449
Length variable (multiple of 4)
peer Update ID 32-bit sequence number corresponding to the
Update ID being ACKed.

The ACK parameter includes one or more Update IDs that have been
received from the peer. The Length field identifies the number of
peer Update IDs that are present in the parameter.

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5.2.15. ENCRYPTED

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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| IV /
/ /
/ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ /
/ Encrypted data /
/ /
/ +-------------------------------+
/ | Padding |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type 641
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
Reserved zero when sent, ignored when received
IV Initialization vector, if needed, otherwise
nonexistent. The length of the IV is inferred from
the HIP transform.
Encrypted The data is encrypted using an encryption algorithm
data as defined in HIP transform.

The ENCRYPTED parameter encapsulates another parameter, the encrypted
data, which holds one or more HIP parameters in block encrypted form.

Consequently, the first fields in the encapsulated parameter(s) are
Type and Length of the first such parameter, allowing the contents to
be easily parsed after decryption.

The field labelled "Encrypted data" consists of the output of one or
more HIP parameters concatenated together that have been passed
through an encryption algorithm. Each of these inner parameters is
padded according to the rules of Section 5.2.1 for padding individual
parameters. As a result, the concatenated parameters will be a block
of data that is 8-byte aligned.

Some encryption algorithms require that the data to be encrypted must
be a multiple of the cipher algorithm block size. In this case, the
above block of data MUST include additional padding, as specified by
the encryption algorithm. The size of the extra padding is selected
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cipher block size. The encryption algorithm may specify padding
bytes other than zero; for example, AES [FIPS01] uses the PKCS5
padding scheme (see section 6.1.1 of [RFC2898]) where the remaining n
bytes to fill the block each have the value n. This yields an
"unencrypted data" block that is transformed to an "encrypted data"
block by the cipher suite. This extra padding added to the set of
parameters to satisfy the cipher block alignment rules is not counted
in HIP TLV length fields, and this extra padding should be removed by
the cipher suite upon decryption.

Note that the length of the cipher suite output may be smaller or
larger than the length of the set of parameters to be encrypted,
since the encryption process may compress the data or add additional
padding to the data.

Once this encryption process is completed, the Encrypted data field
is ready for inclusion in the Parameter. If necessary, additional
Padding for 8-byte alignment is then added according to the rules of
Section 5.2.1.

5.2.16. NOTIFICATION

The NOTIFICATION parameter is used to transmit informational data,
such as error conditions and state transitions, to a HIP peer. A
NOTIFICATION parameter may appear in the NOTIFY packet type. The use
of the NOTIFICATION parameter in other packet types is for further
study.

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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Reserved | Notify Message Type |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| /
/ Notification Data /
/ +---------------+
/ | Padding |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Type 832
Length length in octets, excluding Type, Length, and
Padding
Reserved zero when sent, ignored when received
Notify Message specifies the type of notification
Type
Notification informational or error data transmitted in addition
Data to the Notify Message Type. Values for this field
are type specific (see below).
Padding any Padding, if necessary, to make the parameter a
multiple of 8 bytes.

Notification information can be error messages specifying why an SA
could not be established. It can also be status data that a process
managing an SA database wishes to communicate with a peer process.
The table below lists the Notification messages and their
corresponding values.

To avoid certain types of attacks, a Responder SHOULD avoid sending a
NOTIFICATION to any host with which it has not successfully verified
a puzzle solution.

Types in the range 0-16383 are intended for reporting errors and in
the range 16384-65535 for other status information. An
implementation that receives a NOTIFY packet with a NOTIFICATION
error parameter in response to a request packet (e.g., I1, I2,
UPDATE) SHOULD assume that the corresponding request has failed
entirely. Unrecognized error types MUST be ignored except that they
SHOULD be logged.

Notify payloads with status types MUST be ignored if not recognized.

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NOTIFICATION PARAMETER - ERROR TYPES Value
------------------------------------ -----

UNSUPPORTED_CRITICAL_PARAMETER_TYPE 1

Sent if the parameter type has the "critical" bit set and the
parameter type is not recognized. Notification Data contains
the two-octet parameter type.

INVALID_SYNTAX 7

Indicates that the HIP message received was invalid because
some type, length, or value was out of range or because the
request was rejected for policy reasons. To avoid a denial-
of-service attack using forged messages, this status may only be
returned for packets whose HMAC (if present) and SIGNATURE have
been verified. This status MUST be sent in response to any
error not covered by one of the other status types, and should
not contain details to avoid leaking information to someone
probing a node. To aid debugging, more detailed error
information SHOULD be written to a console or log.

NO_DH_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN 14

None of the proposed group IDs was acceptable.

INVALID_DH_CHOSEN 15

The D-H Group ID field does not correspond to one offered
by the Responder.

NO_HIP_PROPOSAL_CHOSEN 16

None of the proposed HIP Transform crypto suites was
acceptable.

INVALID_HIP_TRANSFORM_CHOSEN 17

The HIP Transform crypto suite does not correspond to
one offered by the Responder.

AUTHENTICATION_FAILED 24

Sent in response to a HIP signature failure, except when
the signature verification fails in a NOTIFY message.

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CHECKSUM_FAILED 26

Sent in response to a HIP checksum failure.

HMAC_FAILED 28

Sent in response to a HIP HMAC failure.

ENCRYPTION_FAILED 32

The Responder could not successfully decrypt the
ENCRYPTED parameter.

INVALID_HIT 40

Sent in response to a failure to validate the peer's
HIT from the corresponding HI.

BLOCKED_BY_POLICY 42

The Responder is unwilling to set up an association
for some policy reason (e.g., received HIT is NULL
and policy does not allow opportunistic mode).

SERVER_BUSY_PLEASE_RETRY 44

The Responder is unwilling to set up an association as it is
suffering under some kind of overload and has chosen to shed load
by rejecting the Initiator's request. The Initiator may retry;
however, the Initiator MUST find another (different) puzzle
solution for any such retries. Note that the Initiator may need
to obtain a new puzzle with a new I1/R1 exchange.

NOTIFY MESSAGES - STATUS TYPES Value
------------------------------ -----

I2_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 16384

The Responder has an I2 from the Initiator but had to queue the I2
for processing. The puzzle was correctly solved and the Responder
is willing to set up an association but currently has a number of
I2s in the processing queue. R2 will be sent after the I2 has
been processed.

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5.2.17. ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED

Type 897
Length variable
Opaque data opaque data, supposed to be meaningful only to the
node that sends ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED and receives a
corresponding ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED or
ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED.

The ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED parameter contains an opaque blob of data
that the sender wants to get echoed back in the corresponding reply
packet.

The ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED and corresponding echo response parameters
MAY be used for any purpose where a node wants to carry some state in
a request packet and get it back in a response packet. The
ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED is covered by the HMAC and SIGNATURE. A HIP
packet can contain only one ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED or
ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameter. The ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED parameter
MUST be responded to with a corresponding echo response.
ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED SHOULD be used, but if it is not possible, e.g.,
due to a middlebox-provided response, it MAY be responded to with an
ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED.

5.2.18. ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED

Type 63661
Length variable
Opaque data opaque data, supposed to be meaningful only to the
node that sends ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED and receives a
corresponding ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED.

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The ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameter contains an opaque blob of data
that the sender wants to get echoed back in the corresponding reply
packet.

The ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED and corresponding echo response parameters
MAY be used for any purpose where a node wants to carry some state in
a request packet and get it back in a response packet. The
ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED is not covered by the HMAC and SIGNATURE. A
HIP packet can contain one or more ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameters.
It is possible that middleboxes add ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameters
in HIP packets passing by. The sender has to create the Opaque field
so that it can later identify and remove the corresponding
ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED parameter.

The ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED parameter MUST be responded to with an
ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED parameter.

5.2.19. ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED

Type 961
Length variable
Opaque data opaque data, copied unmodified from the
ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED or ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED
parameter that triggered this response.

The ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED parameter contains an opaque blob of data
that the sender of the ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED wants to get echoed back.
The opaque data is copied unmodified from the ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED
parameter.

The ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED and ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED parameters MAY be
used for any purpose where a node wants to carry some state in a
request packet and get it back in a response packet. The
ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED is covered by the HMAC and SIGNATURE.

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5.2.20. ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED

Type 63425
Length variable
Opaque data opaque data, copied unmodified from the
ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED or ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED
parameter that triggered this response.

The ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED parameter contains an opaque blob of data
that the sender of the ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED or ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED
wants to get echoed back. The opaque data is copied unmodified from
the corresponding echo request parameter.

The echo request and ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED parameters MAY be used
for any purpose where a node wants to carry some state in a request
packet and get it back in a response packet. The
ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED is not covered by the HMAC and SIGNATURE.

5.3. HIP Packets

There are eight basic HIP packets (see Table 10). Four are for the
HIP base exchange, one is for updating, one is for sending
notifications, and two are for closing a HIP association.

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+------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| Packet type | Packet name |
+------------------+------------------------------------------------+
| 1 | I1 - the HIP Initiator Packet |
| | |
| 2 | R1 - the HIP Responder Packet |
| | |
| 3 | I2 - the Second HIP Initiator Packet |
| | |
| 4 | R2 - the Second HIP Responder Packet |
| | |
| 16 | UPDATE - the HIP Update Packet |
| | |
| 17 | NOTIFY - the HIP Notify Packet |
| | |
| 18 | CLOSE - the HIP Association Closing Packet |
| | |
| 19 | CLOSE_ACK - the HIP Closing Acknowledgment |
| | Packet |
+------------------+------------------------------------------------+

Table 10: HIP packets and packet type numbers

Packets consist of the fixed header as described in Section 5.1,
followed by the parameters. The parameter part, in turn, consists of
zero or more TLV-coded parameters.

In addition to the base packets, other packet types will be defined
later in separate specifications. For example, support for mobility
and multi-homing is not included in this specification.

See Notation (Section 2.2) for used operations.

In the future, an OPTIONAL upper-layer payload MAY follow the HIP
header. The Next Header field in the header indicates if there is
additional data following the HIP header. The HIP packet, however,
MUST NOT be fragmented. This limits the size of the possible
additional data in the packet.

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5.3.1. I1 - the HIP Initiator Packet

The HIP header values for the I1 packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 1
SRC HIT = Initiator's HIT
DST HIT = Responder's HIT, or NULL

IP ( HIP () )

The I1 packet contains only the fixed HIP header.

Valid control bits: none

The Initiator gets the Responder's HIT either from a DNS lookup of
the Responder's FQDN, from some other repository, or from a local
table. If the Initiator does not know the Responder's HIT, it may
attempt to use opportunistic mode by using NULL (all zeros) as the
Responder's HIT. See also "HIP Opportunistic Mode" (Section 4.1.6).

Since this packet is so easy to spoof even if it were signed, no
attempt is made to add to its generation or processing cost.

Implementations MUST be able to handle a storm of received I1
packets, discarding those with common content that arrive within a
small time delta.

5.3.2. R1 - the HIP Responder Packet

The HIP header values for the R1 packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 2
SRC HIT = Responder's HIT
DST HIT = Initiator's HIT

IP ( HIP ( [ R1_COUNTER, ]
PUZZLE,
DIFFIE_HELLMAN,
HIP_TRANSFORM,
HOST_ID,
[ ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED, ]
HIP_SIGNATURE_2 )
<, ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED >i)

Valid control bits: A

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If the Responder's HI is an anonymous one, the A control MUST be set.

The Initiator's HIT MUST match the one received in I1. If the
Responder has multiple HIs, the Responder's HIT used MUST match
Initiator's request. If the Initiator used opportunistic mode, the
Responder may select freely among its HIs. See also "HIP
Opportunistic Mode" (Section 4.1.6).

The R1 generation counter is used to determine the currently valid
generation of puzzles. The value is increased periodically, and it
is RECOMMENDED that it is increased at least as often as solutions to
old puzzles are no longer accepted.

The Puzzle contains a Random #I and the difficulty K. The difficulty
K indicates the number of lower-order bits, in the puzzle hash
result, that must be zeros; see Section 4.1.2. The Random #I is not
covered by the signature and must be zeroed during the signature
calculation, allowing the sender to select and set the #I into a
precomputed R1 just prior sending it to the peer.

The Diffie-Hellman value is ephemeral, and one value SHOULD be used
only for one connection. Once the Responder has received a valid
response to an R1 packet, that Diffie-Hellman value SHOULD be
deprecated. Because it is possible that the Responder has sent the
same Diffie-Hellman value to different hosts simultaneously in
corresponding R1 packets, those responses should also be accepted.
However, as a defense against I1 storms, an implementation MAY
propose, and re-use if not avoidable, the same Diffie-Hellman value
for a period of time, for example, 15 minutes. By using a small
number of different puzzles for a given Diffie-Hellman value, the R1
packets can be precomputed and delivered as quickly as I1 packets
arrive. A scavenger process should clean up unused Diffie-Hellman
values and puzzles.

Re-using Diffie-Hellman public keys opens up the potential security
risk of more than one Initiator ending up with the same keying
material (due to faulty random number generators). Also, more than
one Initiator using the same Responder public key half may lead to
potentially easier cryptographic attacks and to imperfect forward
security.

However, these risks involved in re-using the same key are
statistical; that is, the authors are not aware of any mechanism that
would allow manipulation of the protocol so that the risk of the re-
use of any given Responder Diffie-Hellman public key would differ
from the base probability. Consequently, it is RECOMMENDED that
implementations avoid re-using the same D-H key with multiple
Initiators, but because the risk is considered statistical and not

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known to be manipulable, the implementations MAY re-use a key in
order to ease resource-constrained implementations and to increase
the probability of successful communication with legitimate clients
even under an I1 storm. In particular, when it is too expensive to
generate enough precomputed R1 packets to supply each potential
Initiator with a different D-H key, the Responder MAY send the same
D-H key to several Initiators, thereby creating the possibility of
multiple legitimate Initiators ending up using the same Responder-
side public key. However, as soon as the Responder knows that it
will use a particular D-H key, it SHOULD stop offering it. This
design is aimed to allow resource-constrained Responders to offer
services under I1 storms and to simultaneously make the probability
of D-H key re-use both statistical and as low as possible.

If a future version of this protocol is considered, we strongly
recommend that these issues be studied again. Especially, the
current design allows hosts to become potentially more vulnerable to
a statistical, low-probability problem during I1 storm attacks than
what they are if no attack is taking place; whether this is
acceptable or not should be reconsidered in the light of any new
experience gained.

The HIP_TRANSFORM contains the encryption and integrity algorithms
supported by the Responder to protect the HI exchange, in the order
of preference. All implementations MUST support the AES [RFC3602]
with HMAC-SHA-1-96 [RFC2404].

The ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED and ECHO_REQUEST_UNSIGNED contains data that
the sender wants to receive unmodified in the corresponding response
packet in the ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED or ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED
parameter.

The signature is calculated over the whole HIP envelope, after
setting the Initiator's HIT, header checksum, as well as the Opaque
field and the Random #I in the PUZZLE parameter temporarily to zero,
and excluding any parameters that follow the signature, as described
in Section 5.2.12. This allows the Responder to use precomputed R1s.
The Initiator SHOULD validate this signature. It SHOULD check that
the Responder's HI received matches with the one expected, if any.

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5.3.3. I2 - the Second HIP Initiator Packet

The HIP header values for the I2 packet:

Header:
Type = 3
SRC HIT = Initiator's HIT
DST HIT = Responder's HIT

IP ( HIP ( [R1_COUNTER,]
SOLUTION,
DIFFIE_HELLMAN,
HIP_TRANSFORM,
ENCRYPTED { HOST_ID } or HOST_ID,
[ ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED ,]
HMAC,
HIP_SIGNATURE
<, ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED>i ) )

Valid control bits: A

The HITs used MUST match the ones used previously.

If the Initiator's HI is an anonymous one, the A control MUST be set.

The Initiator MAY include an unmodified copy of the R1_COUNTER
parameter received in the corresponding R1 packet into the I2 packet.

The Solution contains the Random #I from R1 and the computed #J. The
low-order K bits of the RHASH(I | ... | J) MUST be zero.

The Diffie-Hellman value is ephemeral. If precomputed, a scavenger
process should clean up unused Diffie-Hellman values. The Responder
may re-use Diffie-Hellman values under some conditions as specified
in Section 5.3.2.

The HIP_TRANSFORM contains the single encryption and integrity
transform selected by the Initiator, that will be used to protect the
HI exchange. The chosen transform MUST correspond to one offered by
the Responder in the R1. All implementations MUST support the AES
transform [RFC3602].

The Initiator's HI MAY be encrypted using the HIP_TRANSFORM
encryption algorithm. The keying material is derived from the
Diffie-Hellman exchanged as defined in Section 6.5.

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The ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED and ECHO_RESPONSE_UNSIGNED contain the
unmodified Opaque data copied from the corresponding echo request
parameter.

The HMAC is calculated over the whole HIP envelope, excluding any
parameters after the HMAC, as described in Section 6.4.1. The
Responder MUST validate the HMAC.

The signature is calculated over the whole HIP envelope, excluding
any parameters after the HIP_SIGNATURE, as described in
Section 5.2.11. The Responder MUST validate this signature. It MAY
use either the HI in the packet or the HI acquired by some other
means.

5.3.4. R2 - the Second HIP Responder Packet

The HIP header values for the R2 packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 4
SRC HIT = Responder's HIT
DST HIT = Initiator's HIT

IP ( HIP ( HMAC_2, HIP_SIGNATURE ) )

Valid control bits: none

The HMAC_2 is calculated over the whole HIP envelope, with
Responder's HOST_ID parameter concatenated with the HIP envelope.
The HOST_ID parameter is removed after the HMAC calculation. The
procedure is described in Section 6.4.1.

The signature is calculated over the whole HIP envelope.

The Initiator MUST validate both the HMAC and the signature.

5.3.5. UPDATE - the HIP Update Packet

Support for the UPDATE packet is MANDATORY.

The HIP header values for the UPDATE packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 16
SRC HIT = Sender's HIT
DST HIT = Recipient's HIT

IP ( HIP ( [SEQ, ACK, ] HMAC, HIP_SIGNATURE ) )

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Valid control bits: None

The UPDATE packet contains mandatory HMAC and HIP_SIGNATURE
parameters, and other optional parameters.

The UPDATE packet contains zero or one SEQ parameter. The presence
of a SEQ parameter indicates that the receiver MUST ACK the UPDATE.
An UPDATE that does not contain a SEQ parameter is simply an ACK of a
previous UPDATE and itself MUST NOT be ACKed.

An UPDATE packet contains zero or one ACK parameters. The ACK
parameter echoes the SEQ sequence number of the UPDATE packet being
ACKed. A host MAY choose to ACK more than one UPDATE packet at a
time; e.g., the ACK may contain the last two SEQ values received, for
robustness to ACK loss. ACK values are not cumulative; each received
unique SEQ value requires at least one corresponding ACK value in
reply. Received ACKs that are redundant are ignored.

The UPDATE packet may contain both a SEQ and an ACK parameter. In
this case, the ACK is being piggybacked on an outgoing UPDATE. In
general, UPDATEs carrying SEQ SHOULD be ACKed upon completion of the
processing of the UPDATE. A host MAY choose to hold the UPDATE
carrying ACK for a short period of time to allow for the possibility
of piggybacking the ACK parameter, in a manner similar to TCP delayed
acknowledgments.

A sender MAY choose to forgo reliable transmission of a particular
UPDATE (e.g., it becomes overcome by events). The semantics are such
that the receiver MUST acknowledge the UPDATE, but the sender MAY
choose to not care about receiving the ACK.

UPDATEs MAY be retransmitted without incrementing SEQ. If the same
subset of parameters is included in multiple UPDATEs with different
SEQs, the host MUST ensure that the receiver's processing of the
parameters multiple times will not result in a protocol error.

5.3.6. NOTIFY - the HIP Notify Packet

The NOTIFY packet is OPTIONAL. The NOTIFY packet MAY be used to
provide information to a peer. Typically, NOTIFY is used to indicate
some type of protocol error or negotiation failure. NOTIFY packets
are unacknowledged. The receiver can handle the packet only as
informational, and SHOULD NOT change its HIP state (Section 4.4.1)
based purely on a received NOTIFY packet.

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The HIP header values for the NOTIFY packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 17
SRC HIT = Sender's HIT
DST HIT = Recipient's HIT, or zero if unknown

IP ( HIP (i, [HOST_ID, ] HIP_SIGNATURE) )

Valid control bits: None

The NOTIFY packet is used to carry one or more NOTIFICATION
parameters.

5.3.7. CLOSE - the HIP Association Closing Packet

The HIP header values for the CLOSE packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 18
SRC HIT = Sender's HIT
DST HIT = Recipient's HIT

IP ( HIP ( ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED, HMAC, HIP_SIGNATURE ) )

Valid control bits: none

The sender MUST include an ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED used to validate
CLOSE_ACK received in response, and both an HMAC and a signature
(calculated over the whole HIP envelope).

The receiver peer MUST validate both the HMAC and the signature if it
has a HIP association state, and MUST reply with a CLOSE_ACK
containing an ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED corresponding to the received
ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED.

5.3.8. CLOSE_ACK - the HIP Closing Acknowledgment Packet

The HIP header values for the CLOSE_ACK packet:

Header:
Packet Type = 19
SRC HIT = Sender's HIT
DST HIT = Recipient's HIT

IP ( HIP ( ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED, HMAC, HIP_SIGNATURE ) )

Valid control bits: none

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The sender MUST include both an HMAC and signature (calculated over
the whole HIP envelope).

The receiver peer MUST validate both the HMAC and the signature.

5.4. ICMP Messages

When a HIP implementation detects a problem with an incoming packet,
and it either cannot determine the identity of the sender of the
packet or does not have any existing HIP association with the sender
of the packet, it MAY respond with an ICMP packet. Any such replies
MUST be rate-limited as described in [RFC2463]. In most cases, the
ICMP packet will have the Parameter Problem type (12 for ICMPv4, 4
for ICMPv6), with the Pointer field pointing to the field that caused
the ICMP message to be generated.

5.4.1. Invalid Version

If a HIP implementation receives a HIP packet that has an
unrecognized HIP version number, it SHOULD respond, rate-limited,
with an ICMP packet with type Parameter Problem, the Pointer pointing
to the VER./RES. byte in the HIP header.

5.4.2. Other Problems with the HIP Header and Packet Structure

If a HIP implementation receives a HIP packet that has other
unrecoverable problems in the header or packet format, it MAY
respond, rate-limited, with an ICMP packet with type Parameter
Problem, the Pointer pointing to the field that failed to pass the
format checks. However, an implementation MUST NOT send an ICMP
message if the checksum fails; instead, it MUST silently drop the
packet.

5.4.3. Invalid Puzzle Solution

If a HIP implementation receives an I2 packet that has an invalid
puzzle solution, the behavior depends on the underlying version of
IP. If IPv6 is used, the implementation SHOULD respond with an ICMP
packet with type Parameter Problem, the Pointer pointing to the
beginning of the Puzzle solution #J field in the SOLUTION payload in
the HIP message.

If IPv4 is used, the implementation MAY respond with an ICMP packet
with the type Parameter Problem, copying enough of bytes from the I2
message so that the SOLUTION parameter fits into the ICMP message,
the Pointer pointing to the beginning of the Puzzle solution #J

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field, as in the IPv6 case. Note, however, that the resulting ICMPv4
message exceeds the typical ICMPv4 message size as defined in
[RFC0792].

5.4.4. Non-Existing HIP Association

If a HIP implementation receives a CLOSE or UPDATE packet, or any
other packet whose handling requires an existing association, that
has either a Receiver or Sender HIT that does not match with any
existing HIP association, the implementation MAY respond, rate-
limited, with an ICMP packet with the type Parameter Problem, and
with the Pointer pointing to the beginning of the first HIT that does
not match.

A host MUST NOT reply with such an ICMP if it receives any of the
following messages: I1, R2, I2, R2, and NOTIFY. When introducing new
packet types, a specification SHOULD define the appropriate rules for
sending or not sending this kind of ICMP reply.

6. Packet Processing

Each host is assumed to have a single HIP protocol implementation
that manages the host's HIP associations and handles requests for new
ones. Each HIP association is governed by a conceptual state
machine, with states defined above in Section 4.4. The HIP
implementation can simultaneously maintain HIP associations with more
than one host. Furthermore, the HIP implementation may have more
than one active HIP association with another host; in this case, HIP
associations are distinguished by their respective HITs. It is not
possible to have more than one HIP association between any given pair
of HITs. Consequently, the only way for two hosts to have more than
one parallel association is to use different HITs, at least at one
end.

The processing of packets depends on the state of the HIP
association(s) with respect to the authenticated or apparent
originator of the packet. A HIP implementation determines whether it
has an active association with the originator of the packet based on
the HITs. In the case of user data carried in a specific transport
format, the transport format document specifies how the incoming
packets are matched with the active associations.

6.1. Processing Outgoing Application Data

In a HIP host, an application can send application-level data using
an identifier specified via the underlying API. The API can be a
backwards-compatible API (see [HIP-APP]), using identifiers that look
similar to IP addresses, or a completely new API, providing enhanced

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services related to Host Identities. Depending on the HIP
implementation, the identifier provided to the application may be
different; for example, it can be a HIT or an IP address.

The exact format and method for transferring the data from the source
HIP host to the destination HIP host is defined in the corresponding
transport format document. The actual data is transferred in the
network using the appropriate source and destination IP addresses.

In this document, conceptual processing rules are defined only for
the base case where both hosts have only single usable IP addresses;
the multi-address multi-homing case will be specified separately.

The following conceptual algorithm describes the steps that are
required for handling outgoing datagrams destined to a HIT.

1. If the datagram has a specified source address, it MUST be a HIT.
If it is not, the implementation MAY replace the source address
with a HIT. Otherwise, it MUST drop the packet.

2. If the datagram has an unspecified source address, the
implementation must choose a suitable source HIT for the
datagram.

3. If there is no active HIP association with the given HIT pair, one must be created by running the base
exchange. While waiting for the base exchange to complete, the
implementation SHOULD queue at least one packet per HIP
association to be formed, and it MAY queue more than one.

4. Once there is an active HIP association for the given HIT pair, the outgoing datagram is passed to
transport handling. The possible transport formats are defined
in separate documents, of which the ESP transport format for HIP
is mandatory for all HIP implementations.

5. Before sending the packet, the HITs in the datagram are replaced
with suitable IP addresses. For IPv6, the rules defined in
[RFC3484] SHOULD be followed. Note that this HIT-to-IP-address
conversion step MAY also be performed at some other point in the
stack, e.g., before wrapping the packet into the output format.

6.2. Processing Incoming Application Data

The following conceptual algorithm describes the incoming datagram
handling when HITs are used at the receiving host as application-
level identifiers. More detailed steps for processing packets are
defined in corresponding transport format documents.

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1. The incoming datagram is mapped to an existing HIP association,
typically using some information from the packet. For example,
such mapping may be based on the ESP Security Parameter Index
(SPI).

2. The specific transport format is unwrapped, in a way depending on
the transport format, yielding a packet that looks like a
standard (unencrypted) IP packet. If possible, this step SHOULD
also verify that the packet was indeed (once) sent by the remote
HIP host, as identified by the HIP association.

Depending on the used transport mode, the verification method can
vary. While the HI (as well as HIT) is used as the higher-layer
identifier, the verification method has to verify that the data
packet was sent by a node identity and that the actual identity
maps to this particular HIT. When using ESP transport format
[RFC5202], the verification is done using the SPI value in the
data packet to find the corresponding SA with associated HIT and
key, and decrypting the packet with that associated key.

3. The IP addresses in the datagram are replaced with the HITs
associated with the HIP association. Note that this IP-address-
to-HIT conversion step MAY also be performed at some other point
in the stack.

4. The datagram is delivered to the upper layer. When
demultiplexing the datagram, the right upper-layer socket is
based on the HITs.

6.3. Solving the Puzzle

This subsection describes the puzzle-solving details.

In R1, the values I and K are sent in network byte order. Similarly,
in I2, the values I and J are sent in network byte order. The hash
is created by concatenating, in network byte order, the following
data, in the following order and using the RHASH algorithm:

64-bit random value I, in network byte order, as appearing in R1
and I2.

128-bit Initiator's HIT, in network byte order, as appearing in
the HIP Payload in R1 and I2.

128-bit Responder's HIT, in network byte order, as appearing in
the HIP Payload in R1 and I2.

64-bit random value J, in network byte order, as appearing in I2.

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In order to be a valid response puzzle, the K low-order bits of the
resulting RHASH digest must be zero.

Notes:

i) The length of the data to be hashed is 48 bytes.

ii) All the data in the hash input MUST be in network byte order.

iii) The order of the Initiator's and Responder's HITs are
different in the R1 and I2 packets; see Section 5.1. Care must be
taken to copy the values in the right order to the hash input.

The following procedure describes the processing steps involved,
assuming that the Responder chooses to precompute the R1 packets:

Precomputation by the Responder:
Sets up the puzzle difficulty K.
Creates a signed R1 and caches it.

Responder:
Selects a suitable cached R1.
Generates a random number I.
Sends I and K in an R1.
Saves I and K for a Delta time.

Initiator:
Generates repeated attempts to solve the puzzle until a matching J
is found:
Ltrunc( RHASH( I | HIT-I | HIT-R | J ), K ) == 0
Sends I and J in an I2.

Responder:
Verifies that the received I is a saved one.
Finds the right K based on I.
Computes V := Ltrunc( RHASH( I | HIT-I | HIT-R | J ), K )
Rejects if V != 0
Accept if V == 0

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6.4. HMAC and SIGNATURE Calculation and Verification

The following subsections define the actions for processing HMAC,
HIP_SIGNATURE and HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameters.

6.4.1. HMAC Calculation

The following process applies both to the HMAC and HMAC_2 parameters.
When processing HMAC_2, the difference is that the HMAC calculation
includes a pseudo HOST_ID field containing the Responder's
information as sent in the R1 packet earlier.

Both the Initiator and the Responder should take some care when
verifying or calculating the HMAC_2. Specifically, the Responder
should preserve other parameters than the HOST_ID when sending the
R2. Also, the Initiator has to preserve the HOST_ID exactly as it
was received in the R1 packet.

The scope of the calculation for HMAC and HMAC_2 is:

HMAC: { HIP header | [ Parameters ] }

where Parameters include all HIP parameters of the packet that is
being calculated with Type values from 1 to (HMAC's Type value - 1)
and exclude parameters with Type values greater or equal to HMAC's
Type value.

During HMAC calculation, the following applies:

o In the HIP header, the Checksum field is set to zero.

o In the HIP header, the Header Length field value is calculated to
the beginning of the HMAC parameter.

Parameter order is described in Section 5.2.1.

HMAC_2: { HIP header | [ Parameters ] | HOST_ID }

where Parameters include all HIP parameters for the packet that is
being calculated with Type values from 1 to (HMAC_2's Type value - 1)
and exclude parameters with Type values greater or equal to HMAC_2's
Type value.

During HMAC_2 calculation, the following applies:

o In the HIP header, the Checksum field is set to zero.

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o In the HIP header, the Header Length field value is calculated to
the beginning of the HMAC_2 parameter and added to the length of
the concatenated HOST_ID parameter length.

o HOST_ID parameter is exactly in the form it was received in the R1
packet from the Responder.

Parameter order is described in Section 5.2.1, except that the
HOST_ID parameter in this calculation is added to the end.

The HMAC parameter is defined in Section 5.2.9 and the HMAC_2
parameter in Section 5.2.10. The HMAC calculation and verification
process (the process applies both to HMAC and HMAC_2 except where
HMAC_2 is mentioned separately) is as follows:

Packet sender:

1. Create the HIP packet, without the HMAC, HIP_SIGNATURE,
HIP_SIGNATURE_2, or any other parameter with greater Type value
than the HMAC parameter has.

2. In case of HMAC_2 calculation, add a HOST_ID (Responder)
parameter to the end of the packet.

3. Calculate the Header Length field in the HIP header including the
added HOST_ID parameter in case of HMAC_2.

4. Compute the HMAC using either HIP-gl or HIP-lg integrity key
retrieved from KEYMAT as defined in Section 6.5.

5. In case of HMAC_2, remove the HOST_ID parameter from the packet.

6. Add the HMAC parameter to the packet and any parameter with
greater Type value than the HMAC's (HMAC_2's) that may follow,
including possible HIP_SIGNATURE or HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameters

7. Recalculate the Length field in the HIP header.

Packet receiver:

1. Verify the HIP header Length field.

2. Remove the HMAC or HMAC_2 parameter, as well as all other
parameters that follow it with greater Type value including
possible HIP_SIGNATURE or HIP_SIGNATURE_2 fields, saving the
contents if they will be needed later.

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3. In case of HMAC_2, build and add a HOST_ID parameter (with
Responder information) to the packet. The HOST_ID parameter
should be identical to the one previously received from the
Responder.

4. Recalculate the HIP packet length in the HIP header and clear the
Checksum field (set it to all zeros). In case of HMAC_2, the
length is calculated with the added HOST_ID parameter.

5. Compute the HMAC using either HIP-gl or HIP-lg integrity key as
defined in Section 6.5 and verify it against the received HMAC.

6. Set Checksum and Header Length field in the HIP header to
original values.

7. In case of HMAC_2, remove the HOST_ID parameter from the packet
before further processing.

6.4.2. Signature Calculation

The following process applies both to the HIP_SIGNATURE and
HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameters. When processing HIP_SIGNATURE_2, the
only difference is that instead of HIP_SIGNATURE parameter, the
HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameter is used, and the Initiator's HIT and PUZZLE
Opaque and Random #I fields are cleared (set to all zeros) before
computing the signature. The HIP_SIGNATURE parameter is defined in
Section 5.2.11 and the HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameter in Section 5.2.12.

The scope of the calculation for HIP_SIGNATURE and HIP_SIGNATURE_2
is:

HIP_SIGNATURE: { HIP header | [ Parameters ] }

where Parameters include all HIP parameters for the packet that is
being calculated with Type values from 1 to (HIP_SIGNATURE's Type
value - 1).

During signature calculation, the following apply:

o In the HIP header, the Checksum field is set to zero.

o In the HIP header, the Header Length field value is calculated to
the beginning of the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter.

Parameter order is described in Section 5.2.1.

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HIP_SIGNATURE_2: { HIP header | [ Parameters ] }

where Parameters include all HIP parameters for the packet that is
being calculated with Type values from 1 to (HIP_SIGNATURE_2's Type
value - 1).

During signature calculation, the following apply:

o In the HIP header, the Initiator's HIT field and Checksum fields
are set to zero.

o In the HIP header, the Header Length field value is calculated to
the beginning of the HIP_SIGNATURE_2 parameter.

o PUZZLE parameter's Opaque and Random #I fields are set to zero.

Parameter order is described in Section 5.2.1.

Signature calculation and verification process (the process applies
both to HIP_SIGNATURE and HIP_SIGNATURE_2 except in the case where
HIP_SIGNATURE_2 is separately mentioned):

Packet sender:

1. Create the HIP packet without the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter or any
parameters that follow the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter.

2. Calculate the Length field and zero the Checksum field in the HIP
header. In case of HIP_SIGNATURE_2, set Initiator's HIT field in
the HIP header as well as PUZZLE parameter's Opaque and Random #I
fields to zero.

3. Compute the signature using the private key corresponding to the
Host Identifier (public key).

4. Add the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter to the packet.

5. Add any parameters that follow the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter.

6. Recalculate the Length field in the HIP header, and calculate the
Checksum field.

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Packet receiver:

1. Verify the HIP header Length field.

2. Save the contents of the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter and any
parameters following the HIP_SIGNATURE parameter and remove them
from the packet.

3. Recalculate the HIP packet Length in the HIP header and clear the
Checksum field (set it to all zeros). In case of
HIP_SIGNATURE_2, set Initiator's HIT field in HIP header as well
as PUZZLE parameter's Opaque and Random #I fields to zero.

4. Compute the signature and verify it against the received
signature using the packet sender's Host Identifier (public key).

5. Restore the original packet by adding removed parameters (in step
2) and resetting the values that were set to zero (in step 3).

The verification can use either the HI received from a HIP packet,
the HI from a DNS query, if the FQDN has been received in the HOST_ID
packet, or one received by some other means.

6.5. HIP KEYMAT Generation

HIP keying material is derived from the Diffie-Hellman session key,
Kij, produced during the HIP base exchange (Section 4.1.3). The
Initiator has Kij during the creation of the I2 packet, and the
Responder has Kij once it receives the I2 packet. This is why I2 can
already contain encrypted information.

The KEYMAT is derived by feeding Kij and the HITs into the following
operation; the | operation denotes concatenation.

KEYMAT = K1 | K2 | K3 | ...
where

K1 = RHASH( Kij | sort(HIT-I | HIT-R) | I | J | 0x01 )
K2 = RHASH( Kij | K1 | 0x02 )
K3 = RHASH( Kij | K2 | 0x03 )
...
K255 = RHASH( Kij | K254 | 0xff )
K256 = RHASH( Kij | K255 | 0x00 )
etc.

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Sort(HIT-I | HIT-R) is defined as the network byte order
concatenation of the two HITs, with the smaller HIT preceding the
larger HIT, resulting from the numeric comparison of the two HITs
interpreted as positive (unsigned) 128-bit integers in network byte
order.

I and J values are from the puzzle and its solution that were
exchanged in R1 and I2 messages when this HIP association was set up.
Both hosts have to store I and J values for the HIP association for
future use.

The initial keys are drawn sequentially in the order that is
determined by the numeric comparison of the two HITs, with comparison
method described in the previous paragraph. HOST_g denotes the host
with the greater HIT value, and HOST_l the host with the lower HIT
value.

The drawing order for initial keys:

HIP-gl encryption key for HOST_g's outgoing HIP packets

HIP-gl integrity (HMAC) key for HOST_g's outgoing HIP packets

HIP-lg encryption key (currently unused) for HOST_l's outgoing HIP
packets

HIP-lg integrity (HMAC) key for HOST_l's outgoing HIP packets

The number of bits drawn for a given algorithm is the "natural" size
of the keys. For the mandatory algorithms, the following sizes
apply:

AES 128 bits

SHA-1 160 bits

NULL 0 bits

If other key sizes are used, they must be treated as different
encryption algorithms and defined separately.

6.6. Initiation of a HIP Exchange

An implementation may originate a HIP exchange to another host based
on a local policy decision, usually triggered by an application
datagram, in much the same way that an IPsec IKE key exchange can

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dynamically create a Security Association. Alternatively, a system
may initiate a HIP exchange if it has rebooted or timed out, or
otherwise lost its HIP state, as described in Section 4.5.4.

The implementation prepares an I1 packet and sends it to the IP
address that corresponds to the peer host. The IP address of the
peer host may be obtained via conventional mechanisms, such as DNS
lookup. The I1 contents are specified in Section 5.3.1. The
selection of which Host Identity to use, if a host has more than one
to choose from, is typically a policy decision.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
initiating a HIP exchange:

1. The Initiator gets the Responder's HIT and one or more addresses
either from a DNS lookup of the Responder's FQDN, from some other
repository, or from a local table. If the Initiator does not
know the Responder's HIT, it may attempt opportunistic mode by
using NULL (all zeros) as the Responder's HIT. See also "HIP
Opportunistic Mode" (Section 4.1.6).

2. The Initiator sends an I1 to one of the Responder's addresses.
The selection of which address to use is a local policy decision.

3. Upon sending an I1, the sender shall transition to state I1-SENT,
start a timer whose timeout value should be larger than the
worst-case anticipated RTT, and shall increment a timeout counter
associated with the I1.

4. Upon timeout, the sender SHOULD retransmit the I1 and restart the
timer, up to a maximum of I1_RETRIES_MAX tries.

6.6.1. Sending Multiple I1s in Parallel

For the sake of minimizing the session establishment latency, an
implementation MAY send the same I1 to more than one of the
Responder's addresses. However, it MUST NOT send to more than three
(3) addresses in parallel. Furthermore, upon timeout, the
implementation MUST refrain from sending the same I1 packet to
multiple addresses. That is, if it retries to initialize the
connection after timeout, it MUST NOT send the I1 packet to more than
one destination address. These limitations are placed in order to
avoid congestion of the network, and potential DoS attacks that might
happen, e.g., because someone's claim to have hundreds or thousands
of addresses could generate a huge number of I1 messages from the
Initiator.

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As the Responder is not guaranteed to distinguish the duplicate I1s
it receives at several of its addresses (because it avoids storing
states when it answers back an R1), the Initiator may receive several
duplicate R1s.

The Initiator SHOULD then select the initial preferred destination
address using the source address of the selected received R1, and use
the preferred address as a source address for the I2. Processing
rules for received R1s are discussed in Section 6.8.

6.6.2. Processing Incoming ICMP Protocol Unreachable Messages

A host may receive an ICMP 'Destination Protocol Unreachable' message
as a response to sending a HIP I1 packet. Such a packet may be an
indication that the peer does not support HIP, or it may be an
attempt to launch an attack by making the Initiator believe that the
Responder does not support HIP.

When a system receives an ICMP 'Destination Protocol Unreachable'
message while it is waiting for an R1, it MUST NOT terminate the
wait. It MAY continue as if it had not received the ICMP message,
and send a few more I1s. Alternatively, it MAY take the ICMP message
as a hint that the peer most probably does not support HIP, and
return to state UNASSOCIATED earlier than otherwise. However, at
minimum, it MUST continue waiting for an R1 for a reasonable time
before returning to UNASSOCIATED.

6.7. Processing Incoming I1 Packets

An implementation SHOULD reply to an I1 with an R1 packet, unless the
implementation is unable or unwilling to set up a HIP association.
If the implementation is unable to set up a HIP association, the host
SHOULD send an ICMP Destination Protocol Unreachable,
Administratively Prohibited, message to the I1 source address. If
the implementation is unwilling to set up a HIP association, the host
MAY ignore the I1. This latter case may occur during a DoS attack
such as an I1 flood.

The implementation MUST be able to handle a storm of received I1
packets, discarding those with common content that arrive within a
small time delta.

A spoofed I1 can result in an R1 attack on a system. An R1 sender
MUST have a mechanism to rate-limit R1s to an address.

It is RECOMMENDED that the HIP state machine does not transition upon
sending an R1.

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The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
responding to an I1 packet:

1. The Responder MUST check that the Responder's HIT in the received
I1 is either one of its own HITs or NULL.

2. If the Responder is in ESTABLISHED state, the Responder MAY
respond to this with an R1 packet, prepare to drop existing SAs,
and stay at ESTABLISHED state.

3. If the Responder is in I1-SENT state, it must make a comparison
between the sender's HIT and its own (i.e., the receiver's) HIT.
If the sender's HIT is greater than its own HIT, it should drop
the I1 and stay at I1-SENT. If the sender's HIT is smaller than
its own HIT, it should send R1 and stay at I1-SENT. The HIT
comparison goes similarly as in Section 6.5.

4. If the implementation chooses to respond to the I1 with an R1
packet, it creates a new R1 or selects a precomputed R1 according
to the format described in Section 5.3.2.

5. The R1 MUST contain the received Responder's HIT, unless the
received HIT is NULL, in which case the Responder SHOULD select a
HIT that is constructed with the MUST algorithm in Section 3,
which is currently RSA. Other than that, selecting the HIT is a
local policy matter.

6. The Responder sends the R1 to the source IP address of the I1
packet.

6.7.1. R1 Management

All compliant implementations MUST produce R1 packets. An R1 packet
MAY be precomputed. An R1 packet MAY be reused for time Delta T,
which is implementation dependent, and SHOULD be deprecated and not
used once a valid response I2 packet has been received from an
Initiator. During an I1 message storm, an R1 packet may be re-used
beyond this limit. R1 information MUST NOT be discarded until Delta
S after T. Time S is the delay needed for the last I2 to arrive back
to the Responder.

An implementation MAY keep state about received I1s and match the
received I2s against the state, as discussed in Section 4.1.1.

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6.7.2. Handling Malformed Messages

If an implementation receives a malformed I1 message, it SHOULD NOT
respond with a NOTIFY message, as such practice could open up a
potential denial-of-service danger. Instead, it MAY respond with an
ICMP packet, as defined in Section 5.4.

6.8. Processing Incoming R1 Packets

A system receiving an R1 MUST first check to see if it has sent an I1
to the originator of the R1 (i.e., it is in state I1-SENT). If so,
it SHOULD process the R1 as described below, send an I2, and go to
state I2-SENT, setting a timer to protect the I2. If the system is
in state I2-SENT, it MAY respond to an R1 if the R1 has a larger R1
generation counter; if so, it should drop its state due to processing
the previous R1 and start over from state I1-SENT. If the system is
in any other state with respect to that host, it SHOULD silently drop
the R1.

When sending multiple I1s, an Initiator SHOULD wait for a small
amount of time after the first R1 reception to allow possibly
multiple R1s to arrive, and it SHOULD respond to an R1 among the set
with the largest R1 generation counter.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
responding to an R1 packet:

1. A system receiving an R1 MUST first check to see if it has sent
an I1 to the originator of the R1 (i.e., it has a HIP
association that is in state I1-SENT and that is associated with
the HITs in the R1). Unless the I1 was sent in opportunistic
mode (see Section 4.1.6), the IP addresses in the received R1
packet SHOULD be ignored and, when looking up the right HIP
association, the received R1 SHOULD be matched against the
associations using only the HITs. If a match exists, the system
should process the R1 as described below.

2. Otherwise, if the system is in any other state than I1-SENT or
I2-SENT with respect to the HITs included in the R1, it SHOULD
silently drop the R1 and remain in the current state.

3. If the HIP association state is I1-SENT or I2-SENT, the received
Initiator's HIT MUST correspond to the HIT used in the original,
and the I1 and the Responder's HIT MUST correspond to the one
used, unless the I1 contained a NULL HIT.

4. The system SHOULD validate the R1 signature before applying
further packet processing, according to Section 5.2.12.

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5. If the HIP association state is I1-SENT, and multiple valid R1s
are present, the system SHOULD select from among the R1s with
the largest R1 generation counter.

6. If the HIP association state is I2-SENT, the system MAY reenter
state I1-SENT and process the received R1 if it has a larger R1
generation counter than the R1 responded to previously.

7. The R1 packet may have the A bit set -- in this case, the system
MAY choose to refuse it by dropping the R1 and returning to
state UNASSOCIATED. The system SHOULD consider dropping the R1
only if it used a NULL HIT in I1. If the A bit is set, the
Responder's HIT is anonymous and should not be stored.

8. The system SHOULD attempt to validate the HIT against the
received Host Identity by using the received Host Identity to
construct a HIT and verify that it matches the Sender's HIT.

9. The system MUST store the received R1 generation counter for
future reference.

10. The system attempts to solve the puzzle in R1. The system MUST
terminate the search after exceeding the remaining lifetime of
the puzzle. If the puzzle is not successfully solved, the
implementation may either resend I1 within the retry bounds or
abandon the HIP exchange.

11. The system computes standard Diffie-Hellman keying material
according to the public value and Group ID provided in the
DIFFIE_HELLMAN parameter. The Diffie-Hellman keying material
Kij is used for key extraction as specified in Section 6.5. If
the received Diffie-Hellman Group ID is not supported, the
implementation may either resend I1 within the retry bounds or
abandon the HIP exchange.

12. The system selects the HIP transform from the choices presented
in the R1 packet and uses the selected values subsequently when
generating and using encryption keys, and when sending the I2.
If the proposed alternatives are not acceptable to the system,
it may either resend I1 within the retry bounds or abandon the
HIP exchange.

13. The system initializes the remaining variables in the associated
state, including Update ID counters.

14. The system prepares and sends an I2, as described in
Section 5.3.3.

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15. The system SHOULD start a timer whose timeout value should be
larger than the worst-case anticipated RTT, and MUST increment a
timeout counter associated with the I2. The sender SHOULD
retransmit the I2 upon a timeout and restart the timer, up to a
maximum of I2_RETRIES_MAX tries.

16. If the system is in state I1-SENT, it shall transition to state
I2-SENT. If the system is in any other state, it remains in the
current state.

6.8.1. Handling Malformed Messages

If an implementation receives a malformed R1 message, it MUST
silently drop the packet. Sending a NOTIFY or ICMP would not help,
as the sender of the R1 typically doesn't have any state. An
implementation SHOULD wait for some more time for a possibly good R1,
after which it MAY try again by sending a new I1 packet.

6.9. Processing Incoming I2 Packets

Upon receipt of an I2, the system MAY perform initial checks to
determine whether the I2 corresponds to a recent R1 that has been
sent out, if the Responder keeps such state. For example, the sender
could check whether the I2 is from an address or HIT that has
recently received an R1 from it. The R1 may have had Opaque data
included that was echoed back in the I2. If the I2 is considered to
be suspect, it MAY be silently discarded by the system.

Otherwise, the HIP implementation SHOULD process the I2. This
includes validation of the puzzle solution, generating the Diffie-
Hellman key, decrypting the Initiator's Host Identity, verifying the
signature, creating state, and finally sending an R2.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
responding to an I2 packet:

1. The system MAY perform checks to verify that the I2 corresponds
to a recently sent R1. Such checks are implementation
dependent. See Appendix A for a description of an example
implementation.

2. The system MUST check that the Responder's HIT corresponds to
one of its own HITs.

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3. If the system's state machine is in the R2-SENT state, the
system MAY check if the newly received I2 is similar to the one
that triggered moving to R2-SENT. If so, it MAY retransmit a
previously sent R2, reset the R2-SENT timer, and the state
machine stays in R2-SENT.

4. If the system's state machine is in the I2-SENT state, the
system makes a comparison between its local and sender's HITs
(similarly as in Section 6.5). If the local HIT is smaller than
the sender's HIT, it should drop the I2 packet, use the peer
Diffie-Hellman key and nonce I from the R1 packet received
earlier, and get the local Diffie-Hellman key and nonce J from
the I2 packet sent to the peer earlier. Otherwise, the system
should process the received I2 packet and drop any previously
derived Diffie-Hellman keying material Kij it might have formed
upon sending the I2 previously. The peer Diffie-Hellman key and
the nonce J are taken from the just arrived I2 packet. The
local Diffie-Hellman key and the nonce I are the ones that were
earlier sent in the R1 packet.

5. If the system's state machine is in the I1-SENT state, and the
HITs in the I2 match those used in the previously sent I1, the
system uses this received I2 as the basis for the HIP
association it was trying to form, and stops retransmitting I1
(provided that the I2 passes the below additional checks).

6. If the system's state machine is in any other state than R2-
SENT, the system SHOULD check that the echoed R1 generation
counter in I2 is within the acceptable range. Implementations
MUST accept puzzles from the current generation and MAY accept
puzzles from earlier generations. If the newly received I2 is
outside the accepted range, the I2 is stale (perhaps replayed)
and SHOULD be dropped.

7. The system MUST validate the solution to the puzzle by computing
the hash described in Section 5.3.3 using the same RHASH
algorithm.

8. The I2 MUST have a single value in the HIP_TRANSFORM parameter,
which MUST match one of the values offered to the Initiator in
the R1 packet.

9. The system must derive Diffie-Hellman keying material Kij based
on the public value and Group ID in the DIFFIE_HELLMAN
parameter. This key is used to derive the HIP association keys,
as described in Section 6.5. If the Diffie-Hellman Group ID is
unsupported, the I2 packet is silently dropped.

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10. The encrypted HOST_ID is decrypted by the Initiator encryption
key defined in Section 6.5. If the decrypted data is not a
HOST_ID parameter, the I2 packet is silently dropped.

11. The implementation SHOULD also verify that the Initiator's HIT
in the I2 corresponds to the Host Identity sent in the I2.
(Note: some middleboxes may not able to make this verification.)

12. The system MUST verify the HMAC according to the procedures in
Section 5.2.9.

13. The system MUST verify the HIP_SIGNATURE according to
Section 5.2.11 and Section 5.3.3.

14. If the checks above are valid, then the system proceeds with
further I2 processing; otherwise, it discards the I2 and its
state machine remains in the same state.

15. The I2 packet may have the A bit set -- in this case, the system
MAY choose to refuse it by dropping the I2 and the state machine
returns to state UNASSOCIATED. If the A bit is set, the
Initiator's HIT is anonymous and should not be stored.

16. The system initializes the remaining variables in the associated
state, including Update ID counters.

17. Upon successful processing of an I2 when the system's state
machine is in state UNASSOCIATED, I1-SENT, I2-SENT, or R2-SENT,
an R2 is sent and the system's state machine transitions to
state R2-SENT.

18. Upon successful processing of an I2 when the system's state
machine is in state ESTABLISHED, the old HIP association is
dropped and a new one is installed, an R2 is sent, and the
system's state machine transitions to R2-SENT.

19. Upon the system's state machine transitioning to R2-SENT, the
system starts a timer. The state machine transitions to
ESTABLISHED if some data has been received on the incoming HIP
association, or an UPDATE packet has been received (or some
other packet that indicates that the peer system's state machine
has moved to ESTABLISHED). If the timer expires (allowing for
maximal retransmissions of I2s), the state machine transitions
to ESTABLISHED.

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6.9.1. Handling Malformed Messages

If an implementation receives a malformed I2 message, the behavior
SHOULD depend on how many checks the message has already passed. If
the puzzle solution in the message has already been checked, the
implementation SHOULD report the error by responding with a NOTIFY
packet. Otherwise, the implementation MAY respond with an ICMP
message as defined in Section 5.4.

6.10. Processing Incoming R2 Packets

An R2 received in states UNASSOCIATED, I1-SENT, or ESTABLISHED
results in the R2 being dropped and the state machine staying in the
same state. If an R2 is received in state I2-SENT, it SHOULD be
processed.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for an
incoming R2 packet:

1. The system MUST verify that the HITs in use correspond to the
HITs that were received in the R1.

2. The system MUST verify the HMAC_2 according to the procedures in
Section 5.2.10.

3. The system MUST verify the HIP signature according to the
procedures in Section 5.2.11.

4. If any of the checks above fail, there is a high probability of
an ongoing man-in-the-middle or other security attack. The
system SHOULD act accordingly, based on its local policy.

5. If the system is in any other state than I2-SENT, the R2 is
silently dropped.

6. Upon successful processing of the R2, the state machine moves to
state ESTABLISHED.

6.11. Sending UPDATE Packets

A host sends an UPDATE packet when it wants to update some
information related to a HIP association. There are a number of
likely situations, e.g., mobility management and rekeying of an
existing ESP Security Association. The following paragraphs define
the conceptual rules for sending an UPDATE packet to the peer.
Additional steps can be defined in other documents where the UPDATE
packet is used.

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The system first determines whether there are any outstanding UPDATE
messages that may conflict with the new UPDATE message under
consideration. When multiple UPDATEs are outstanding (not yet
acknowledged), the sender must assume that such UPDATEs may be
processed in an arbitrary order. Therefore, any new UPDATEs that
depend on a previous outstanding UPDATE being successfully received
and acknowledged MUST be postponed until reception of the necessary
ACK(s) occurs. One way to prevent any conflicts is to only allow one
outstanding UPDATE at a time. However, allowing multiple UPDATEs may
improve the performance of mobility and multihoming protocols.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
sending UPDATE packets.

1. The first UPDATE packet is sent with Update ID of zero.
Otherwise, the system increments its own Update ID value by one
before continuing the below steps.

2. The system creates an UPDATE packet that contains a SEQ parameter
with the current value of Update ID. The UPDATE packet may also
include an ACK of the peer's Update ID found in a received UPDATE
SEQ parameter, if any.

3. The system sends the created UPDATE packet and starts an UPDATE
timer. The default value for the timer is 2 * RTT estimate. If
multiple UPDATEs are outstanding, multiple timers are in effect.

4. If the UPDATE timer expires, the UPDATE is resent. The UPDATE
can be resent UPDATE_RETRY_MAX times. The UPDATE timer SHOULD be
exponentially backed off for subsequent retransmissions. If no
acknowledgment is received from the peer after UPDATE_RETRY_MAX
times, the HIP association is considered to be broken and the
state machine should move from state ESTABLISHED to state CLOSING
as depicted in Section 4.4.3. The UPDATE timer is cancelled upon
receiving an ACK from the peer that acknowledges receipt of the
UPDATE.

6.12. Receiving UPDATE Packets

When a system receives an UPDATE packet, its processing depends on
the state of the HIP association and the presence and values of the
SEQ and ACK parameters. Typically, an UPDATE message also carries
optional parameters whose handling is defined in separate documents.

For each association, the peer's next expected in-sequence Update ID
("peer Update ID") is stored. Initially, this value is zero. Update
ID comparisons of "less than" and "greater than" are performed with
respect to a circular sequence number space.

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The sender may send multiple outstanding UPDATE messages. These
messages are processed in the order in which they are received at the
receiver (i.e., no resequencing is performed). When processing
UPDATEs out-of-order, the receiver MUST keep track of which UPDATEs
were previously processed, so that duplicates or retransmissions are
ACKed and not reprocessed. A receiver MAY choose to define a receive
window of Update IDs that it is willing to process at any given time,
and discard received UPDATEs falling outside of that window.

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
receiving UPDATE packets.

1. If there is no corresponding HIP association, the implementation
MAY reply with an ICMP Parameter Problem, as specified in
Section 5.4.4.

2. If the association is in the ESTABLISHED state and the SEQ (but
not ACK) parameter is present, the UPDATE is processed and
replied to as described in Section 6.12.1.

3. If the association is in the ESTABLISHED state and the ACK (but
not SEQ) parameter is present, the UPDATE is processed as
described in Section 6.12.2.

4. If the association is in the ESTABLISHED state and there is both
an ACK and SEQ in the UPDATE, the ACK is first processed as
described in Section 6.12.2, and then the rest of the UPDATE is
processed as described in Section 6.12.1.

6.12.1. Handling a SEQ Parameter in a Received UPDATE Message

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
handling a SEQ parameter in a received UPDATE packet.

1. If the Update ID in the received SEQ is not the next in the
sequence of Update IDs and is greater than the receiver's window
for new UPDATEs, the packet MUST be dropped.

2. If the Update ID in the received SEQ corresponds to an UPDATE
that has recently been processed, the packet is treated as a
retransmission. The HMAC verification (next step) MUST NOT be
skipped. (A byte-by-byte comparison of the received and a stored
packet would be OK, though.) It is recommended that a host cache
UPDATE packets sent with ACKs to avoid the cost of generating a
new ACK packet to respond to a replayed UPDATE. The system MUST
acknowledge, again, such (apparent) UPDATE message
retransmissions but SHOULD also consider rate-limiting such
retransmission responses to guard against replay attacks.

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3. The system MUST verify the HMAC in the UPDATE packet. If the
verification fails, the packet MUST be dropped.

4. The system MAY verify the SIGNATURE in the UPDATE packet. If the
verification fails, the packet SHOULD be dropped and an error
message logged.

5. If a new SEQ parameter is being processed, the parameters in the
UPDATE are then processed. The system MUST record the Update ID
in the received SEQ parameter, for replay protection.

6. An UPDATE acknowledgment packet with ACK parameter is prepared
and sent to the peer. This ACK parameter may be included in a
separate UPDATE or piggybacked in an UPDATE with SEQ parameter,
as described in Section 5.3.5. The ACK parameter MAY acknowledge
more than one of the peer's Update IDs.

6.12.2. Handling an ACK Parameter in a Received UPDATE Packet

The following steps define the conceptual processing rules for
handling an ACK parameter in a received UPDATE packet.

1. The sequence number reported in the ACK must match with an
earlier sent UPDATE packet that has not already been
acknowledged. If no match is found or if the ACK does not
acknowledge a new UPDATE, the packet MUST either be dropped if no
SEQ parameter is present, or the processing steps in
Section 6.12.1 are followed.

2. The system MUST verify the HMAC in the UPDATE packet. If the
verification fails, the packet MUST be dropped.

3. The system MAY verify the SIGNATURE in the UPDATE packet. If the
verification fails, the packet SHOULD be dropped and an error
message logged.

4. The corresponding UPDATE timer is stopped (see Section 6.11) so
that the now acknowledged UPDATE is no longer retransmitted. If
multiple UPDATEs are newly acknowledged, multiple timers are
stopped.

6.13. Processing NOTIFY Packets

Processing NOTIFY packets is OPTIONAL. If processed, any errors in a
received NOTIFICATION parameter SHOULD be logged. Received errors
MUST be considered only as informational, and the receiver SHOULD NOT
change its HIP state (Section 4.4.1) purely based on the received
NOTIFY message.

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6.14. Processing CLOSE Packets

When the host receives a CLOSE message, it responds with a CLOSE_ACK
message and moves to CLOSED state. (The authenticity of the CLOSE
message is verified using both HMAC and SIGNATURE). This processing
applies whether or not the HIP association state is CLOSING in order
to handle CLOSE messages from both ends that cross in flight.

The HIP association is not discarded before the host moves from the
UNASSOCIATED state.

Once the closing process has started, any need to send data packets
will trigger creating and establishing of a new HIP association,
starting with sending an I1.

If there is no corresponding HIP association, the CLOSE packet is
dropped.

6.15. Processing CLOSE_ACK Packets

When a host receives a CLOSE_ACK message, it verifies that it is in
CLOSING or CLOSED state and that the CLOSE_ACK was in response to the
CLOSE (using the included ECHO_RESPONSE_SIGNED in response to the
sent ECHO_REQUEST_SIGNED).

The CLOSE_ACK uses HMAC and SIGNATURE for verification. The state is
discarded when the state changes to UNASSOCIATED and, after that, the
host MAY respond with an ICMP Parameter Problem to an incoming CLOSE
message (see Section 5.4.4).

6.16. Handling State Loss

In the case of system crash and unanticipated state loss, the system
SHOULD delete the corresponding HIP state, including the keying
material. That is, the state SHOULD NOT be stored on stable storage.
If the implementation does drop the state (as RECOMMENDED), it MUST
also drop the peer's R1 generation counter value, unless a local
policy explicitly defines that the value of that particular host is
stored. An implementation MUST NOT store R1 generation counters by
default, but storing R1 generation counter values, if done, MUST be
configured by explicit HITs.

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7. HIP Policies

There are a number of variables that will influence the HIP exchanges
that each host must support. All HIP implementations MUST support
more than one simultaneous HI, at least one of which SHOULD be
reserved for anonymous usage. Although anonymous HIs will be rarely
used as Responders' HIs, they will be common for Initiators. Support
for more than two HIs is RECOMMENDED.

Many Initiators would want to use a different HI for different
Responders. The implementations SHOULD provide for an ACL of
Initiator's HIT to Responder's HIT. This ACL SHOULD also include
preferred transform and local lifetimes.

The value of K used in the HIP R1 packet can also vary by policy. K
should never be greater than 20, but for trusted partners it could be
as low as 0.

Responders would need a similar ACL, representing which hosts they
accept HIP exchanges, and the preferred transform and local
lifetimes. Wildcarding SHOULD be supported for this ACL also.

8. Security Considerations

HIP is designed to provide secure authentication of hosts. HIP also
attempts to limit the exposure of the host to various denial-of-
service and man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. In so doing, HIP
itself is subject to its own DoS and MitM attacks that potentially
could be more damaging to a host's ability to conduct business as
usual.

The 384-bit Diffie-Hellman Group is targeted to be used in hosts that
either do not require or are not powerful enough for handling strong
cryptography. Although there is a risk that with suitable equipment
the encryption can be broken in real time, the 384-bit group can
provide some protection for end-hosts that are not able to handle any
stronger cryptography. When the security provided by the 384-bit
group is not enough for applications on a host, the support for this
group should be turned off in the configuration.

Denial-of-service attacks often take advantage of the cost of start
of state for a protocol on the Responder compared to the 'cheapness'
on the Initiator. HIP makes no attempt to increase the cost of the
start of state on the Initiator, but makes an effort to reduce the
cost to the Responder. This is done by having the Responder start
the 3-way exchange instead of the Initiator, making the HIP protocol
4 packets long. In doing this, packet 2 becomes a 'stock' packet
that the Responder MAY use many times, until some Initiator has

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provided a valid response to such an R1 packet. During an I1 storm,
the host may reuse the same D-H value also even if some Initiator has
provided a valid response using that particular D-H value. However,
such behavior is discouraged and should be avoided. Using the same
Diffie-Hellman values and random puzzle #I value has some risks.
This risk needs to be balanced against a potential storm of HIP I1
packets.

This shifting of the start of state cost to the Initiator in creating
the I2 HIP packet, presents another DoS attack. The attacker spoofs
the I1 HIP packet and the Responder sends out the R1 HIP packet.
This could conceivably tie up the 'Initiator' with evaluating the R1
HIP packet, and creating the I2 HIP packet. The defense against this
attack is to simply ignore any R1 packet where a corresponding I1 was
not sent.

A second form of DoS attack arrives in the I2 HIP packet. Once the
attacking Initiator has solved the puzzle, it can send packets with
spoofed IP source addresses with either an invalid encrypted HIP
payload component or a bad HIP signature. This would take resources
in the Responder's part to reach the point to discover that the I2
packet cannot be completely processed. The defense against this
attack is after N bad I2 packets, the Responder would discard any I2s
that contain the given Initiator HIT. This will shut down the
attack. The attacker would have to request another R1 and use that
to launch a new attack. The Responder could up the value of K while
under attack. On the downside, valid I2s might get dropped too.

A third form of DoS attack is emulating the restart of state after a
reboot of one of the partners. A restarting host would send an I1 to
a peer, which would respond with an R1 even if it were in the
ESTABLISHED state. If the I1 were spoofed, the resulting R1 would be
received unexpectedly by the spoofed host and would be dropped, as in
the first case above.

A fourth form of DoS attack is emulating the end of state. HIP
relies on timers plus a CLOSE/CLOSE_ACK handshake to explicitly
signal the end of a HIP association. Because both CLOSE and
CLOSE_ACK messages contain an HMAC, an outsider cannot close a
connection. The presence of an additional SIGNATURE allows
middleboxes to inspect these messages and discard the associated
state (for e.g., firewalling, SPI-based NATing, etc.). However, the
optional behavior of replying to CLOSE with an ICMP Parameter Problem
packet (as described in Section 5.4.4) might allow an IP spoofer
sending CLOSE messages to launch reflection attacks.

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A fifth form of DoS attack is replaying R1s to cause the Initiator to
solve stale puzzles and become out of synchronization with the
Responder. The R1 generation counter is a monotonically increasing
counter designed to protect against this attack, as described in
Section 4.1.4.

Man-in-the-middle attacks are difficult to defend against, without
third-party authentication. A skillful MitM could easily handle all
parts of HIP, but HIP indirectly provides the following protection
from a MitM attack. If the Responder's HI is retrieved from a signed
DNS zone, a certificate, or through some other secure means, the
Initiator can use this to validate the R1 HIP packet.

Likewise, if the Initiator's HI is in a secure DNS zone, a trusted
certificate, or otherwise securely available, the Responder can
retrieve the HI (after having got the I2 HIP packet) and verify that
the HI indeed can be trusted. However, since an Initiator may choose
to use an anonymous HI, it knowingly risks a MitM attack. The
Responder may choose not to accept a HIP exchange with an anonymous
Initiator.

The HIP Opportunistic Mode concept has been introduced in this
document, but this document does not specify what the semantics of
such a connection setup are for applications. There are certain
concerns with opportunistic mode, as discussed in Section 4.1.6.

NOTIFY messages are used only for informational purposes and they are
unacknowledged. A HIP implementation cannot rely solely on the
information received in a NOTIFY message because the packet may have
been replayed. It SHOULD NOT change any state information based
purely on a received NOTIFY message.

Since not all hosts will ever support HIP, ICMP 'Destination Protocol
Unreachable' messages are to be expected and present a DoS attack.
Against an Initiator, the attack would look like the Responder does
not support HIP, but shortly after receiving the ICMP message, the
Initiator would receive a valid R1 HIP packet. Thus, to protect from
this attack, an Initiator should not react to an ICMP message until a
reasonable delta time to get the real Responder's R1 HIP packet. A
similar attack against the Responder is more involved. Normally, if
an I1 message received by a Responder was a bogus one sent by an
attacker, the Responder may receive an ICMP message from the IP
address the R1 message was sent to. However, a sophisticated
attacker can try to take advantage of such a behavior and try to
break up the HIP exchange by sending such an ICMP message to the
Responder before the Initiator has a chance to send a valid I2
message. Hence, the Responder SHOULD NOT act on such an ICMP
message. Especially, it SHOULD NOT remove any minimal state created

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when it sent the R1 HIP packet (if it did create one), but wait for
either a valid I2 HIP packet or the natural timeout (that is, if R1
packets are tracked at all). Likewise, the Initiator should ignore
any ICMP message while waiting for an R2 HIP packet, and should
delete any pending state only after a natural timeout.

9. IANA Considerations

IANA has reserved protocol number 139 for the Host Identity Protocol.

This document defines a new 128-bit value under the CGA Message Type
namespace [RFC3972], 0xF0EF F02F BFF4 3D0F E793 0C3C 6E61 74EA, to be
used for HIT generation as specified in ORCHID [RFC4843].

This document also creates a set of new namespaces. These are
described below.

Packet Type

The 7-bit Packet Type field in a HIP protocol packet describes the
type of a HIP protocol message. It is defined in Section 5.1.
The current values are defined in Sections 5.3.1 through 5.3.8.

New values are assigned through IETF Consensus [RFC2434].

HIP Version

The four-bit Version field in a HIP protocol packet describes the
version of the HIP protocol. It is defined in Section 5.1. The
only currently defined value is 1. New values are assigned
through IETF Consensus.

Parameter Type

The 16-bit Type field in a HIP parameter describes the type of the
parameter. It is defined in Section 5.2.1. The current values
are defined in Sections 5.2.3 through 5.2.20.

With the exception of the assigned Type codes, the Type codes 0
through 1023 and 61440 through 65535 are reserved for future base
protocol extensions, and are assigned through IETF Consensus.

The Type codes 32768 through 49141 are reserved for
experimentation. Types SHOULD be selected in a random fashion
from this range, thereby reducing the probability of collisions.
A method employing genuine randomness (such as flipping a coin)
SHOULD be used.

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All other Type codes are assigned through First Come First Served,
with Specification Required [RFC2434].

Group ID

The eight-bit Group ID values appear in the DIFFIE_HELLMAN
parameter and are defined in Section 5.2.6. New values either
from the reserved or unassigned space are assigned through IETF
Consensus.

Suite ID

The 16-bit Suite ID values in a HIP_TRANSFORM parameter are
defined in Section 5.2.7. New values either from the reserved or
unassigned space are assigned through IETF Consensus.

DI-Type

The four-bit DI-Type values in a HOST_ID parameter are defined in
Section 5.2.8. New values are assigned through IETF Consensus.

Notify Message Type

The 16-bit Notify Message Type values in a NOTIFICATION parameter
are defined in Section 5.2.16.

Notify Message Type values 1-10 are used for informing about
errors in packet structures, values 11-20 for informing about
problems in parameters containing cryptographic related material,
values 21-30 for informing about problems in authentication or
packet integrity verification. Parameter numbers above 30 can be
used for informing about other types of errors or events. Values
51-8191 are error types reserved to be allocated by IANA. Values
8192-16383 are error types for experimentation. Values 16385-
40959 are status types to be allocated by IANA, and values 40960-
65535 are status types for experimentation. New values in ranges
51-8191 and 16385-40959 are assigned through First Come First
Served, with Specification Required.

10. Acknowledgments

The drive to create HIP came to being after attending the MALLOC
meeting at the 43rd IETF meeting. Baiju Patel and Hilarie Orman
really gave the original author, Bob Moskowitz, the assist to get HIP
beyond 5 paragraphs of ideas. It has matured considerably since the
early versions thanks to extensive input from IETFers. Most
importantly, its design goals are articulated and are different from
other efforts in this direction. Particular mention goes to the

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members of the NameSpace Research Group of the IRTF. Noel Chiappa
provided valuable input at early stages of discussions about
identifier handling and Keith Moore the impetus to provide
resolvability. Steve Deering provided encouragement to keep working,
as a solid proposal can act as a proof of ideas for a research group.

Many others contributed; extensive security tips were provided by
Steve Bellovin. Rob Austein kept the DNS parts on track. Paul
Kocher taught Bob Moskowitz how to make the puzzle exchange expensive
for the Initiator to respond, but easy for the Responder to validate.
Bill Sommerfeld supplied the Birthday concept, which later evolved
into the R1 generation counter, to simplify reboot management. Erik
Nordmark supplied the CLOSE-mechanism for closing connections.
Rodney Thayer and Hugh Daniels provided extensive feedback. In the
early times of this document, John Gilmore kept Bob Moskowitz
challenged to provide something of value.

During the later stages of this document, when the editing baton was
transferred to Pekka Nikander, the input from the early implementors
was invaluable. Without having actual implementations, this document
would not be on the level it is now.

In the usual IETF fashion, a large number of people have contributed
to the actual text or ideas. The list of these people include Jeff
Ahrenholz, Francis Dupont, Derek Fawcus, George Gross, Andrew
McGregor, Julien Laganier, Miika Komu, Mika Kousa, Jan Melen, Henrik
Petander, Michael Richardson, Tim Shepard, Jorma Wall, and Jukka
Ylitalo. Our apologies to anyone whose name is missing.

Once the HIP Working Group was founded in early 2004, a number of
changes were introduced through the working group process. Most
notably, the original document was split in two, one containing the
base exchange and the other one defining how to use ESP. Some
modifications to the protocol proposed by Aura, et al., [AUR03] were
added at a later stage.

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11. References

11.1. Normative References

[FIPS95] NIST, "FIPS PUB 180-1: Secure Hash Standard",
April 1995.

[RFC0768] Postel, J., "User Datagram Protocol", STD 6, RFC 768,
August 1980.

[RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.

[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

[RFC2404] Madson, C. and R. Glenn, "The Use of HMAC-SHA-1-96
within ESP and AH", RFC 2404, November 1998.

[RFC2451] Pereira, R. and R. Adams, "The ESP CBC-Mode Cipher
Algorithms", RFC 2451, November 1998.

[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version
6 (IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.

[RFC2463] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2463, December 1998.

[RFC2536] Eastlake, D., "DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name
System (DNS)", RFC 2536, March 1999.

[RFC2898] Kaliski, B., "PKCS #5: Password-Based Cryptography
Specification Version 2.0", RFC 2898, September 2000.

[RFC3110] Eastlake, D., "RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the
Domain Name System (DNS)", RFC 3110, May 2001.

[RFC3484] Draves, R., "Default Address Selection for Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 3484, February 2003.

[RFC3526] Kivinen, T. and M. Kojo, "More Modular Exponential
(MODP) Diffie-Hellman groups for Internet Key Exchange
(IKE)", RFC 3526, May 2003.

[RFC3602] Frankel, S., Glenn, R., and S. Kelly, "The AES-CBC
Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with IPsec", RFC 3602,
September 2003.

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[RFC3972] Aura, T., "Cryptographically Generated Addresses
(CGA)", RFC 3972, March 2005.

[RFC4034] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and
S. Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security
Extensions", RFC 4034, March 2005.

[RFC4282] Aboba, B., Beadles, M., Arkko, J., and P. Eronen, "The
Network Access Identifier", RFC 4282, December 2005.

[RFC4307] Schiller, J., "Cryptographic Algorithms for Use in the
Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)", RFC 4307,
December 2005.

[RFC4843] Nikander, P., Laganier, J., and F. Dupont, "An IPv6
Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash
Identifiers (ORCHID)", RFC 4843, April 2007.

[RFC5202] Jokela, P., Moskowitz, R., and P. Nikander, "Using the
Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) Transport Format
with the Host Identity Protocol (HIP)", RFC 5202,
April 2008.

11.2. Informative References

[AUR03] Aura, T., Nagarajan, A., and A. Gurtov, "Analysis of
the HIP Base Exchange Protocol", in Proceedings
of 10th Australasian Conference on Information
Security and Privacy, July 2003.

[CRO03] Crosby, SA. and DS. Wallach, "Denial of Service via
Algorithmic Complexity Attacks", in Proceedings
of Usenix Security Symposium 2003, Washington, DC.,
August 2003.

[DIF76] Diffie, W. and M. Hellman, "New Directions in
Cryptography", IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory vol. IT-22, number 6, pages 644-654, Nov 1976.

[FIPS01] NIST, "FIPS PUB 197: Advanced Encryption Standard",
Nov 2001.

[HIP-APP] Henderson, T., Nikander, P., and M. Komu, "Using the
Host Identity Protocol with Legacy Applications", Work
in Progress, November 2007.

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[IPsec-APIs] Richardson, M., Williams, N., Komu, M., and S.
Tarkoma, "IPsec Application Programming Interfaces",
Work in Progress, February 2008.

[KAU03] Kaufman, C., Perlman, R., and B. Sommerfeld, "DoS
protection for UDP-based protocols", ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security , Oct 2003.

[KRA03] Krawczyk, H., "SIGMA: The 'SIGn-and-MAc' Approach to
Authenticated Diffie-Hellman and Its Use in the IKE-
Protocols", in Proceedings of CRYPTO 2003, pages 400-
425, August 2003.

[RFC0792] Postel, J., "Internet Control Message Protocol",
STD 5, RFC 792, September 1981.

[RFC2412] Orman, H., "The OAKLEY Key Determination Protocol",
RFC 2412, November 1998.

[RFC2434] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing
an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 2434, October 1998.

[RFC4306] Kaufman, C., "Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) Protocol",
RFC 4306, December 2005.

[RFC4423] Moskowitz, R. and P. Nikander, "Host Identity Protocol
(HIP) Architecture", RFC 4423, May 2006.

[RFC5204] Laganier, J. and L. Eggert, "Host Identity Protocol
(HIP) Rendezvous Extension", RFC 5204, April 2008.

[RFC5205] Nikander, P. and J. Laganier, "Host Identity Protocol
(HIP) Domain Name System (DNS) Extensions", RFC 5205,
April 2008.

[RFC5206] Henderson, T., Ed., "End-Host Mobility and Multihoming
with the Host Identity Protocol", RFC 5206,
April 2008.

[SHIM6-PROTO] Nordmark, E. and M. Bagnulo, "Shim6: Level 3
Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6", Work in Progress,
February 2008.

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Appendix A. Using Responder Puzzles

As mentioned in Section 4.1.1, the Responder may delay state creation
and still reject most spoofed I2s by using a number of pre-calculated
R1s and a local selection function. This appendix defines one
possible implementation in detail. The purpose of this appendix is
to give the implementors an idea on how to implement the mechanism.
If the implementation is based on this appendix, it MAY contain some
local modification that makes an attacker's task harder.

The Responder creates a secret value S, that it regenerates
periodically. The Responder needs to remember the two latest values
of S. Each time the S is regenerated, the R1 generation counter
value is incremented by one.

The Responder generates a pre-signed R1 packet. The signature for
pre-generated R1s must be recalculated when the Diffie-Hellman key is
recomputed or when the R1_COUNTER value changes due to S value
regeneration.

When the Initiator sends the I1 packet for initializing a connection,
the Responder gets the HIT and IP address from the packet, and
generates an I value for the puzzle. The I value is set to the pre-
signed R1 packet.

I value calculation:
I = Ltrunc( RHASH ( S | HIT-I | HIT-R | IP-I | IP-R ), 64)

The RHASH algorithm is the same that is used to generate the
Responder's HIT value.

From an incoming I2 packet, the Responder gets the required
information to validate the puzzle: HITs, IP addresses, and the
information of the used S value from the R1_COUNTER. Using these
values, the Responder can regenerate the I, and verify it against the
I received in the I2 packet. If the I values match, it can verify
the solution using I, J, and difficulty K. If the I values do not
match, the I2 is dropped.

puzzle_check:
V := Ltrunc( RHASH( I2.I | I2.hit_i | I2.hit_r | I2.J ), K )
if V != 0, drop the packet

If the puzzle solution is correct, the I and J values are stored for
later use. They are used as input material when keying material is
generated.

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Keeping state about failed puzzle solutions depends on the
implementation. Although it is possible for the Responder not to
keep any state information, it still may do so to protect itself
against certain attacks (see Section 4.1.1).

Appendix B. Generating a Public Key Encoding from an HI

The following pseudo-code illustrates the process to generate a
public key encoding from an HI for both RSA and DSA.

The symbol := denotes assignment; the symbol += denotes appending.
The pseudo-function encode_in_network_byte_order takes two
parameters, an integer (bignum) and a length in bytes, and returns
the integer encoded into a byte string of the given length.

switch ( HI.algorithm )
{

case RSA:
buffer := encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.RSA.e_len,
( HI.RSA.e_len > 255 ) ? 3 : 1 )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.RSA.e, HI.RSA.e_len )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.RSA.n, HI.RSA.n_len )
break;

case DSA:
buffer := encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.DSA.T , 1 )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.DSA.Q , 20 )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.DSA.P , 64 +
8 * HI.DSA.T )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.DSA.G , 64 +
8 * HI.DSA.T )
buffer += encode_in_network_byte_order ( HI.DSA.Y , 64 +
8 * HI.DSA.T )
break;

}

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Appendix C. Example Checksums for HIP Packets

The HIP checksum for HIP packets is specified in Section 5.1.1.
Checksums for TCP and UDP packets running over HIP-enabled security
associations are specified in Section 3.5. The examples below use IP
addresses of 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 (and their respective IPv4-
compatible IPv6 formats), and HITs with the prefix of 2001:10
followed by zeros, followed by a decimal 1 or 2, respectively.

The following example is defined only for testing a checksum
calculation. The address format for the IPv4-compatible IPv6 address
is not a valid one, but using these IPv6 addresses when testing an
IPv6 implementation gives the same checksum output as an IPv4
implementation with the corresponding IPv4 addresses.

C.1. IPv6 HIP Example (I1)

Source Address: ::192.168.0.1
Destination Address: ::192.168.0.2
Upper-Layer Packet Length: 40 0x28
Next Header: 139 0x8b
Payload Protocol: 59 0x3b
Header Length: 4 0x4
Packet Type: 1 0x1
Version: 1 0x1
Reserved: 1 0x1
Control: 0 0x0
Checksum: 446 0x1be
Sender's HIT : 2001:10::1
Receiver's HIT: 2001:10::2

C.2. IPv4 HIP Packet (I1)

The IPv4 checksum value for the same example I1 packet is the same as
the IPv6 checksum (since the checksums due to the IPv4 and IPv6
pseudo-header components are the same).

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C.3. TCP Segment

Regardless of whether IPv6 or IPv4 is used, the TCP and UDP sockets
use the IPv6 pseudo-header format [RFC2460], with the HITs used in
place of the IPv6 addresses.

Sender's HIT: 2001:10::1
Receiver's HIT: 2001:10::2
Upper-Layer Packet Length: 20 0x14
Next Header: 6 0x06
Source port: 65500 0xffdc
Destination port: 22 0x0016
Sequence number: 1 0x00000001
Acknowledgment number: 0 0x00000000
Header length: 20 0x14
Flags: SYN 0x02
Window size: 65535 0xffff
Checksum: 28618 0x6fca
Urgent pointer: 0 0x0000

0x0000: 6000 0000 0014 0640 2001 0010 0000 0000
0x0010: 0000 0000 0000 0001 2001 0010 0000 0000
0x0020: 0000 0000 0000 0002 ffdc 0016 0000 0001
0x0030: 0000 0000 5002 ffff 6fca 0000

Appendix D. 384-Bit Group

This 384-bit group is defined only to be used with HIP. NOTE: The
security level of this group is very low! The encryption may be
broken in a very short time, even real-time. It should be used only
when the host is not powerful enough (e.g., some PDAs) and when
security requirements are low (e.g., during normal web surfing).

This prime is: 2^384 - 2^320 - 1 + 2^64 * { [ 2^254 pi] + 5857 }

Its hexadecimal value is:

FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C90FDAA2 2168C234 C4C6628B 80DC1CD1
29024E08 8A67CC74 020BBEA6 3B13B202 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

The generator is: 2.

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Appendix E. OAKLEY Well-Known Group 1

See also [RFC2412] for definition of OAKLEY well-known group 1.

OAKLEY Well-Known Group 1: A 768-bit prime

The prime is 2^768 - 2^704 - 1 + 2^64 * { [2^638 pi] + 149686 }.

The hexadecimal value is:

FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF C90FDAA2 2168C234 C4C6628B 80DC1CD1
29024E08 8A67CC74 020BBEA6 3B139B22 514A0879 8E3404DD
EF9519B3 CD3A431B 302B0A6D F25F1437 4FE1356D 6D51C245
E485B576 625E7EC6 F44C42E9 A63A3620 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF

This has been rigorously verified as a prime.

The generator is: 22 (decimal)

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Authors' Addresses

Robert Moskowitz
ICSAlabs, An Independent Division of Verizon Business Systems
1000 Bent Creek Blvd, Suite 200
Mechanicsburg, PA
USA

EMail: rgm@icsalabs.com

Pekka Nikander
Ericsson Research NomadicLab
JORVAS FIN-02420
FINLAND

Phone: +358 9 299 1
EMail: pekka.nikander@nomadiclab.com

Petri Jokela (editor)
Ericsson Research NomadicLab
JORVAS FIN-02420
FINLAND

Phone: +358 9 299 1
EMail: petri.jokela@nomadiclab.com

Thomas R. Henderson
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707
Seattle, WA
USA

EMail: thomas.r.henderson@boeing.com

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