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IPsec Test Suite Data Sheet

  • Test Suite: IPsec Test Suite
  • Direction: NA

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is framework that offers capabilities for securing IP packets. This test suite can be used to test IPsec implementations for security flaws and robustness problems.

Used specifications

Specification Title
RFC768 User Datagram Protocol
RFC791 Internet Protocol Specification
RFC792 Internet Control Message Protocol
RFC2402 IP Authentication Header
RFC2406 IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
RFC3173 IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)
RFC3948 UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets
RFC4302 IP Authentication Header
RFC4303 IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
RFC4305 Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)

Test tool general features

  • Fully automated black-box negative testing
  • Ready-made test cases
  • Written in Java(tm)
  • GUI, command line, remote interface modes
  • Instrumentation (health-check) capability
  • Support and maintenance
  • Comprehensive user documentation
  • Results reporting and analysis

Tool-specific information

Tested message elements Specifications
IPv4 header RFC791
ICMP header RFC792
IPComp header RFC3173
Authentication header RFC4302
Encapsulated Security Payload RFC4303
Interoperability not verified with the following message groups Sub-Group
NAT-Traversal Transport ESP, Keep-Alive
NAT-Traversal Tunnel ESP, Keep-Alive
Other features Modes/Algorithms
IPsec tested with: AH, ESP and AH+ESP both in transport and tunnel modes and with IPComp.
Supported AH authentication algorithms and ESP integrity algorithms: NULL, HMAC_SHA1-96, HMAC_MD5-96.
Supported ESP crypto algorithms: ESP-NULL, ESP-DES-CBC, ESP-DES3-CBC, ESP-AES-CBC128, ESP-AES-CBC192, ESP-AES-CBC256.
NAT traversal for the ESP test cases is supported with UDP encapsulation.
Support for Asymmetric Security Association configuration. Separate SAs can be configured for inbound and outbound packets.
IPComp supports deflate compression. Deflate compression can be executed either with or without GZIP/PKZIP support.
IPsec SA for the test suite can be negotiated with ISAKMP Server Test Suite 3.0.0 or later.

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