RFC 5879: Heuristics for Detecting ESP-NULL Packets

This document describes a set of heuristics for distinguishing IPsec ESP-NULL (Encapsulating Security Payload without encryption) packets from encrypted ESP…

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Outgoing relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 4303: IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
Normative reference — RFC 4302: IP Authentication Header
Normative reference — RFC 2410: The NULL Encryption Algorithm and Its Use With IPsec
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 4555: IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming Protocol (MOBIKE)
Informative reference — RFC 3948: UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets
Informative reference — RFC 4835: Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation Requirements for Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)
Informative reference — RFC 4359: The Use of RSA/SHA-1 Signatures within Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) and Authentication Header (AH)
Informative reference — RFC 5840: Wrapped Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) for Traffic Visibility

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7166: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6071: IP Security (IPsec) and Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Document Roadmap