Key management and the establishment of secure associations is outside the scope of 802. This removes the need for additional encryption devices and ensures con. The scalable architecture provides lowlatency, line rate acceleration of frame encapsulation, encryption and replay protection. The ieee get program grants public access to view and download. Pdf network security problems have been well known and ad dressed in the application, transport, or network layers. Securing layer 2 in local area networks springerlink. Cutting and connectorizing utp 175 introduction 175 solid and stranded wiring 175 solidwire utp versus strandedwire utp 175 relative advantages 176 adding connectors 176. The frames are decrypted in the switches, processed and reencrypted back to send to the next device.
At the november 1999 meeting, the hssg adopted the following objectives for 802. Macsec key agreement mka protocol, defined as part of the ieee 802. Download pdf info publication number jp2010158028a. The macsec core is a high performance pipelined implementation of ieee standard 802. These allow discovery and verification of the path, through bridges and lans, taken for frames addressed to and from specified network users, detection, and isolation of a connectivity fault to a. Implementation of the new lan security standard ieee 802. There is very little and quite diverse information regarding the if, where and how of a nexus 5000 or 5500 series switch and support for ieee 802. Understanding media access control security macsec. The macsec security entity secy provides a single secure transmit channel and multiple secure receive channels with privacy, authentication, replay detection and statistics gathering for attack detection. Just like ipsec protects network layer, and ssl protects application data, macsec protects traffic at data link layer layer 2. Macsec key agreement supports mechanisms that securely bind downloads and secure connections to. The following group of tests pertains to the determination of various parametric values as defined in ieee std.
Ieee standard for local and metropolitan area networks. Macsec toolkit, a source code toolkit implementation of ieee 802. How all or part of a network can be secured transparently to peer protocol entities that use the mac service provided by ieee 802. Code of practice for use of structural steel in overhead transmission line towers, part 2. This standard specifies how all or part of a network can be secured transparently to peer protocol entities that use the mac service provided by ieee 802 lans to communicate. However, packets going through the core of the serviceprovider network can be carried through ieee 802. Macsec provides higher performance and scales linearly, compared to ipsec. Ieeethe institute of electrical and electronics engineers,inc.
Linux based implementation of macsec key agreement mka. A dc balanced octetoriented data encoding specified in table 361ae. Macsec provides pointtopoint security on ethernet links between directly connected nodes and is capable of identifying and preventing most security threats, including denial of. Pdf securing layer 2 in local area networks researchgate. Securing layer 2 in local area netw orks 703 created allows the receiving secy to identify the sa, and th us the session keys to be used to decrypt and authenticate the received frame. The pdf of this standard is available at no charge compliments of the ieee 802. This permits emulation of protocol between multiple entities. The pdf of this standard is available at no cost to you compliments of the ieee get. Note, successfully passing these tests, or failing these tests does not necessarily indicate that the dut will, or will not, be interoperable. Industrys highest port density 10ge macsec test solution, resulting in significant reduction in rack space, power consumption, and cooling requirements supports traffic generation of millions of unique flows, eliminating the need to aggregate. The pdf of this standard is available at no cost to you compliments of the ieee get program. Macsec toolkit enables developers to quickly add complete macsec support in new and existing products such as switches, routers or hosts. Mac security macsec provides connectionless user data confidentiality, frame data integrity, and data origin authenticity. The eapol protocol was also modified for use with ieee 802.
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