RFC 7815: Minimal Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) Initiator Implementation
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This document describes a minimal initiator version of the Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) protocol for constrained nodes. IKEv2 is a component of IPsec used for performing mutual authentication and establishing and maintaining Security Associations (SAs). IKEv2 includes several optional features, which are not needed in minimal implementations. This document describes what is required from the minimal implementation and also describes various optimizations that can be done. The protocol described here is interoperable with a full IKEv2 implementation using shared secret authentication (IKEv2 does not require the use of certificate authentication). This minimal initiator implementation can only talk to a full IKEv2 implementation acting as the responder; thus, two minimal initiator implementations cannot talk to each other. This document does not update or modify RFC 7296 but provides a more compact description of the minimal version of the protocol. If this document and RFC 7296 conflict, then RFC 7296 is the authoritative description.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7815
- Published
- March 2016
- Authors
- T. Kivinen
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- int
- Pages
- 41
- Also known as
- —
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Related documents
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- RFC 4301Security Architecture for the Internet ProtocolUpdated
December 2005
- RFC 7634ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) and IPsecCurrent
August 2015
- RFC 7548Management of Networks with Constrained Devices: Use CasesCurrent
May 2015
- RFC 7547Management of Networks with Constrained Devices: Problem Statement and RequirementsCurrent
May 2015
- RFC 7427Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)Current
January 2015
- RFC 8221Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)Updated
October 2017
- RFC 8229TCP Encapsulation of IKE and IPsec PacketsObsoleted
August 2017
- RFC 8247Algorithm Implementation Requirements and Usage Guidance for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)Updated
September 2017
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