UP Paper 144 US-T-GDOWN
Authentication Mechanisms for Call Control Message Integrity and Origin Verification
Martin,CynthiaSI International
Dunn,JeffreyRGII
Internet Portocol (IP) methodologies developed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC) Working Group can be incorporated into asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and frame relay (FR) signaling to provide message integrity and origin authentication. In turn, these mechanisms can provide a virtual private network (VPN) infrastructure with call control message integrity, origin verification, and transit network filtering. In this paper, we describe a set of control messages based on the IP Security (IPSEC) authentication header (AH) methodology that provide these security mechanisms for ATM and FR network switching equipment and signaling protocols.

Mr. Dunn joined the Naval Research Laboratory in 1987, where he became the Global Grid (now Global Information Grid) project manager and chief scientist. His accomplishments during that period include the development of numerical models of IP network performance based on non-linear and spectral analysis techniques. Mr. Dunn’s credentials include authoring 4 IETF RFC’s in Benchmarking and Test Methodologies. He has published 3 Bell Lab Technical Journal Articles Test Methodologies, Security Mechanisms, and IP QoS. He also published articles in the areas of numerical models and simulation. Mr. Dunn has a B.A. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University.