ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1AE:2013/Amd 1:2015

Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AE: Media access control (MAC) security — Amendment 1: Galois Counter Mode— — Advanced Encryption Standard-256 (GCM-AES-256) Cipher Suite

Technologies de l'information — Télécommunications et échange d'information entre systèmes — Réseaux locaux et métropolitains — Partie 1AE: Sécurité du contrôle d'accès aux supports (MAC) — Amendement 1: .

General Information

• Status: Withdrawn
• Publication Date: 27-Apr-2015
• Withdrawal Date: 27-Apr-2015
• ICS: 35.110 - Networking
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 6 - Telecommunications and information exchange between systems
• Current Stage: 9599 - Withdrawal of International Standard
• Completion Date: 21-Aug-2020

Relations

• Revised: ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1AE:2020 - Telecommunications and exchange between information technology systems — Requirements for local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AE: Media access control (MAC) security
• Effective Date: 23-Apr-2020
• Amends: ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1AE:2013 - Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AE: Media access control (MAC) security
• Effective Date: 14-Jul-2018

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INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC/
STANDARD IEEE
8802-1AE
First edition
2013-12-01
AMENDMENT 1
2015-05-01

Information technology —
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems — Local and
metropolitan area networks —
Part 1AE:
Media access control (MAC) security
AMENDMENT 1: Galois Counter Model —
Advanced Encryption Standard-256 (GCM-
AES-256) Cipher Suite
Technologies de l'information — Télécommunications et échange
d'information entre systèmes — Réseaux locaux et métropolitains —
Partie 1AE: Sécurité du contrôle d'accès aux supports (MAC)
AMENDEMENT 1




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IEEE Standard for
 Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Security
Amendment 1: Galois Counter Mode—

Advanced Encryption Standard—
256 (GCM-AES-256) Cipher Suite
IEEE Computer Society
Sponsored by the
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
IEEE
IEEE Std 802.1AEbn™‐2011
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™
IEEE Std 802.1AEbn -2011
(Amendment to
IEEE Std 802.1AE™-2006)
IEEE Standard for
Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Security

Amendment 1: Galois Counter Mode—
Advanced Encryption Standard—
256 (GCM-AES-256) Cipher Suite
Sponsor
LAN/MAN Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 10 September 2011
IEEE-SA Standards Board

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Abstract: This amendment specifies the GCM-AES-256 Cipher Suite as an option in addition to the
existing mandatory to implement Default Cipher Suite, GCM-AES-128.
Keywords: authenticity, authorized port, confidentiality, data origin integrity, IEEE 802.1AEbn,
LANs, local area networks, MAC Bridges, MAC security, MAC Service, MANs, metropolitan area
networks, port based network access control, secure association, security, transparent bridging
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.1AEbn-2011, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks—
Media Access Control (MAC) Security—Amendment 1: Galois Counter Mode—Advanced Encryption Standard—
256 (GCM-AES-256) Cipher Suite.
The first edition of IEEE Std 802.1AE was published in 2006. This first amendment to that standard adds the
option of using the GCM-AES-256 Cipher Suite.
Relationship between IEEE Std 802.1AE and other IEEE Std 802 standards
IEEE Std 802.1X-2010 specifies Port-based Network Access Control, and provides a means of
authenticating and authorizing devices attached to a LAN, and includes the MACsec Key Agreement
protocol (MKA) necessary to make use of IEEE 802.1AE.
This standard is not intended for use with IEEE Std 802.11 Wireless LAN Medium Access Control. An
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Participants
At the time this standard was submitted to the IEEE-SA for approval, the IEEE P802.1 Working Group had
the following membership:
Tony Jeffree, Chair
Paul Congdon, Vice Chair
Mick Seaman, Editor and Chair, Security Task Group
Eric Gray
Zehavit Alon Eric Multanen
Yafan An Yingjie Gu David Olsen
Ting Ao Craig Gunther Donald Pannell
Peter Ashwood-Smith Michael Johas Teener Glenn Parsons
Christian Boiger Stephen Haddock Mark Pearson
Paul Bottorff Hitoshi Hayakawa Joseph Pelissier
Rudolf Brandner Hal Keen Rene Raeber
Srikanth Keesara
Craig Carlson Karen T. Randall
Rodney Cummings Yongbum Kim Josef Roese
Claudio Desanti Philippe Klein Dan Romascanu
Zhemin Ding Oliver Kleineberg Jessy Rouyer
Donald Eastlake, III Michael Krause Ali Sajassi
Janos Farkas Lin Li Panagiotis Saltsidis
Donald Fedyk Jeff Lynch Rakesh Sharma
Norman Finn Ben Mack-Crane Kevin Stanton
David Martin Robert Sultan
Ilango Ganga
Geoffrey Garner John Messenger PatriciaThaler
Anoop Ghanwani John Morris Chait Tumuluri
Mark Gravel Maarten Vissers
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Thomas Alexander Atsushi Ito Robert Robinson
Butch Anton Raj Jain Benjamin Rolfe
Junghoon Jee Jessy Rouyer
Nancy Bravin
Herbert Ruck
William Byrd Tony Jeffree
Randall Safier
Radhakrishna Canchi Michael Johas Teener
Joseph Salowey
Keith Chow Shinkyo Kaku
Raymond Savarda
Charles Cook Piotr Karocki
Bartien Sayogo
Claudio DeSanti Stuart J. Kerry
Mick Seaman
Wael Diab Lior Khermosh
Shusaku Shimada
Patrick Diamond Yongbum Kim
Kapil Sood
Thomas Dineen Geoff Ladwig
Thomas Starai
Sourav Dutta Paul Lambert
Walter Struppler
Donald Fedyk William Lumpkins
Joseph Tardo
Yukihiro Fujimoto Greg Luri
Michael Johas Teener
Devon Gayle Elvis Maculuba
Patricia Thaler
Gregory Gillooly Edward McCall
Mark-Rene Uchida
Evan Gilman Michael McInnis
Dmitri Varsanofiev
Ron Greenthaler Gary Michel
Prabodh Varshney
Randall Groves Michael S. Newman
John Vergis
C. Guy Satoshi Obara
Hung-Yu Wei
John Hawkins Glenn Parsons
Brian Weis
David Hunter Karen T. Randall
Ludwig Winkel
Paul Isaacs Maximilian Riegel
Oren Yuen
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 10 September 2011, it had the following
membership:
Richard H. Hulett, Chair
John Kulick, Vice Chair
Robert M. Grow, Past Chair
Judith Gorman, Secretary
Masayuki Ariyoshi
Gary Robinson
Jim Hughes
William Bartley
Joseph L. Koepfinger* Jon Walter Rosdahl
Ted Burse
Sam Sciacca
David J. Law
Clint Chaplin
Thomas Lee Mike Seavey
Wael Diab
Hung Ling Curtis Siller
Jean-Philippe Faure
Oleg Logvinov Phil Winston
Alexander Gelman
Ted Olsen Howard L. Wolfman
Paul Houzé
Don Wright
*Member Emeritus
Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:
Satish Aggarwal, NRC Representative
Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative
Michael Janezic, NIST Representative
Catherine Berger
IEEE Project Editor
Patricia Gerdon
IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development
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Contents
1. Overview. 2
1.1 Introduction. 2
1.2 Scope. 2
2. Normative references. 3
6. Secure provision of the MAC Service . 4
6.1 MACsec connectivity . 4
7. Principles of secure network operation. 5
8. MAC Security Protocol (MACsec). 6
9. Encoding of MACsec protocol data units. 7
9.8 Transmit SA status. 7
10. Principle of MAC Security Entity (SecY) operation . 8
11. MAC Security in Systems. 9
11.7 MACsec in Provider Bridged Networks. 9
14. Cipher Suites. 10
14.1 Cipher Suite use . 10
14.4 Cipher Suite conformance . 10
14.5 Default Cipher Suite (GCM-AES-128) . 11
14.6 GCM-AES-256 . 11
Annex B (informative) Bibliography. 13
Annex C (informative) MACsec Test Vectors. 14
C.1 Integrity protection (54-octet frame) . 15
C.2 Integrity protection (60-octet frame) . 18
C.3 Integrity protection (65-octet frame) . 21
C.4 Integrity protection (79-octet frame) . 24
C.5 Confidentiality protection (54-octet frame). 27
C.6 Confidentiality protection (60-octet frame). 30
C.7 Confidentiality protection (61-octet frame). 33
C.8 Confidentiality protection (75-octet frame). 36
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Figures
Figure 11-14 Provider network with priority selection and aggregation. 9
Figure 14-1 Cipher Suite Protect and Validate operations . 10
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Tables
Table 14-1 MACsec Cipher Suites. 10
Table C-1 Unprotected frame (example) . 15
Table C-2 Integrity protected frame (example) . 15
Table C-3 GCM-AES-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 16
Table C-4 GCM-AES-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 17
Table C-5 Unprotected frame (example) . 18
Table C-6 Integrity protected frame (example) . 18
Table C-7 GCM-AES-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 19
Table C-8 GCM-AES-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 20
Table C-9 Unprotected frame (example) . 21
Table C-10 Integrity protected frame (example) . 21
Table C-11 GCM-AES-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 22
Table C-12 GCM-AES-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 23
Table C-13 Unprotected frame (example) . 24
Table C-14 Integrity protected frame (example) . 24
Table C-15 GCM-AES-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 25
Table C-16 GCM-AES-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 26
Table C-17 Unprotected frame (example) . 27
Table C-18 Confidentiality protected frame (example). 27
Table C-19 GCM-AES-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 28
Table C-20 GCM-AES-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 29
Table C-21 Unprotected frame (example) . 30
Table C-22 Confidentiality protected frame (example). 30
Table C-23 GCM-AES-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 31
Table C-24 GCM-AES-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 32
Table C-25 Unprotected frame (example) . 33
Table C-26 Confidentiality protected frame (example). 33
Table C-27 GCM-AES-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 34
Table C-28 GCM-AES-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 35
Table C-29 Unprotected frame (example) . 36
Table C-30 Confidentiality protected frame (example). 36
Table C-31 GCM-AES-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 37
Table C-32 GCM-AES-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 38
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IEEE Standard for
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Media Access Control (MAC) Security
Amendment 1: Galois Counter Mode—
Advanced Encryption Standard—
256 (GCM-AES-256) Cipher Suite
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