RFC 9145

Integrity Protection for the Network Service Header (NSH) and Encryption of Sensitive Context Headers, December 2021

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Authors:
M. Boucadair
T. Reddy.K
D. Wing
Stream:
IETF
Source:
sfc (rtg)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9145

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Abstract

This specification presents an optional method to add integrity protection directly to the Network Service Header (NSH) used for Service Function Chaining (SFC). Also, this specification allows for the encryption of sensitive metadata (MD) that is carried in the NSH.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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