Operations Model for Router Keying

Abstract

The IETF is engaged in an effort to analyze the security of routing protocol authentication according to design guidelines discussed in RFC 6518, "Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guidelines". Developing an operational and management model for routing protocol security that works with all the routing protocols will be critical to the deployability of these efforts. This document gives recommendations to operators and implementors regarding management and operation of router authentication. These recommendations will also assist protocol designers in understanding management issues they will face.

Router authentication, key management, and adjacency management for securing inter-router control messages

“…[29] makes a brief mention of key scopes. However, this is a document that focuses on the issues to be considered when designing an operational and management model hence it does not talk about any particular design for automated key management.…”