[strongSwan] PATCH: Payload order for aggressive mode

Martin Willi martin at strongswan.org
Tue Sep 10 11:00:15 CEST 2013


Hi Gerald,
 
> I discovered that the watchguard expects the HASH_V1 before the NAT
> payload in the third message.

Thanks for your patch, I finally had a chance to take a closer look at
this issue.

> Doing a quick search I didn’t found any order requirements in the RFC’s
> (did I miss something?).

While there is no specific text about the payload order, general
consensus is that the message/payload diagrams in the RFC define the
payload order. For aggressive mode (RFC 3947, section 4), this is:

>    UDP(4500,4500) HDR*#, [CERT, ],
>        NAT-D, NAT-D,
>        SIG_I -->

While a signature payload is used here, I take this as a clear
indication to insert the NAT payloads before the SIG/HASH payload.

I'm skeptical about changing the payload order to something "less
correct", as it is likely to break interoperability with other
implementations. 

Kind Regards
Martin





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