ISO/IEC/IEEE 8802-1AE:2013/Amd 2:2015

Information technology — Telecommunications and information exchange between systems — Local and metropolitan area networks — Part 1AE: Media access control (MAC) security — Amendment 2: Extended Packet Numbering

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 2: .

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• Status: Withdrawn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: 25-Apr-2020
• Consolidated By: ISO 22867:2021 - Forestry and gardening machinery — Vibration test code for portable hand-held machines with internal combustion engine — Vibration at the handles
• Effective Date: 06-Jun-2022

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL ISO/IEC/
STANDARD IEEE
8802-1AE
First edition
2013-12-01
AMENDMENT 2
2015-05-01

Information technology —
Telecommunications and information
exchange between systems — Local and
metropolitan area networks —
Part 1AE:
Media access control (MAC) security
AMENDMENT 2: Extended Packet
Numbering
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 2




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IEEE Standard for
 Local and metropolitan area networks—

Media Access Control (MAC) Security

Amendment 2:
Extended Packet Numbering
IEEE Computer Society

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IEEE Std 802.1AEbw™-2013
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IEEE Std 802.1AEbw -2013
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IEEE Standard for
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Media Access Control (MAC) Security
Amendment 2:
Extended Packet Numbering
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Abstract: The optional use of Cipher Suites that make use of a 64-bit (PN) to allow more than 2
MACsec protected frames to be sent with a single Secure Association Key are specified by this
amendment.
Keywords: authorized port, confidentiality, data origin authenticity, IEEE 802.1AE, IEEE
802.1AEbw, integrity, LANs, local area networks, MAC Bridges, MAC security, MAC Service,
MANs, metropolitan area networks, port based network access control, secure association, secu-
rity, transparent bridging
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Introduction
This introduction is not part of IEEE Std 802.1AEbw-2013, IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area net-
works—Media Access Control (MAC) Security—Amendment 2: Extended Packet Numbering.
TM
The first edition of IEEE Std 802.1AE was published in 2006. A first amendment, IEEE Std
TM
802.1AEbn -2011, added the option of using the GCM-AES-256 Cipher Suite. This second amendment
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adds optional Cipher Suites, GCM-AES-XPN-128 and GCM-AES-XPN-256, that allow more than 2
frames to be protected with a single Secure Association Key (SAK) and so ease the timeliness requirements
on key agreement protocols for very high speed (100 Gb/s plus) operation.
Relationship between IEEE Std 802.1AE and other IEEE Std 802 standards
TM
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.
TM
This standard is not intended for use with IEEE Std 802.11 Wireless LAN Medium Access Control. An
TM TM
amendment to that standard, IEEE Std 802.11i -2004, also makes use of IEEE Std 802.1X , thus
facilitating the use of a common authentication and authorization framework for LAN media to which this
standard applies and for Wireless LANs.
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Participants
At the time this standard was submitted to the IEEE-SA Standard Board for approval, the IEEE P802.1
Working Group had the following membership:
Tony Jeffree, Chair
Glenn Parsons, Vice-Chair
Mick Seaman, Editor and Task Group Chair
Zehavit Alon Anoop Ghanwani John Morris
Franz Goetz Eric Multanen
Yafan An
David Olsen
Ting Ao Mark Gravel
Donald Pannell
Eric Gray
Peter Ashwood-Smith
Mark Pearson
Christian Boiger Yingjie Gu
Joseph Pelissier
Brad Booth Craig Gunther
Rene Raeber
Paul Bottorff Stephen Haddock
Karen T. Randall
Rudolf Brandner Hitoshi Hayakawa
Josef Roese
Craig Carlson Markus Jochim
Dan Romascanu
Xin Chang Michael Johas Teener
Jessy Rouyer
Weiying Cheng Girault Jones
Ali Sajassi
Paul Congdon Daya Kamath
Panagiotis Saltsidis
Diego Crupnicoff Hal Keen
Koichiro Seto
Rodney Cummings Srikanth Keesara
Rakesh Sharma
Claudio Desanti Yongbum Kim
Takeshi Shimizu
Donald Eastlake, III Philippe Klein
Kevin Stanton
Janos Farkas Oliver Kleineberg
PatriciaThaler
Donald Fedyk Jeff Lynch
Jeremy Touve
Norman Finn Ben Mack-Crane
Maarten Vissers
Andre Fredette David Martin
Yuehua Wei
Geoffrey Garner John Messenger
Min Xiao
The following members of the individual balloting committee voted on this standard. Balloters may have
voted for approval, disapproval, or abstention.
Atsushi Ito
Thomas Alexander Benjamin Rolfe
Arthur Astrin Tony Jeffree Randall Safier
Nancy Bravin Michael Johas Teener
Bartien Sayogo
William Byrd Shinkyo Kaku
Mick Seaman
Radhakrishna Canchi Piotr Karocki
Gil Shultz
Juan Carreon Stuart Kerry
Dorothy Stanley
Keith Chow Yongbum Kim
Thomas Starai
Charles Cook Bruce Kraemer
Walter Struppler
Rodney Cummings Geoff Ladwig
Joseph Tardo
Ray Davis Shen Loh
William Taylor
Sourav Dutta William Lumpkins
Patricia Thaler
Donald Fedyk Greg Luri
Solomon Trainin
Yukihiro Fujimoto Elvis Maculuba
Dmitri Varsanofiev
Devon Gayle Jonathon Mclendon
Prabodh Varshney
Eric Gray Michael S. Newman
John Vergis
Randall Groves Charles Ngethe
Hung-Yu Wei
Michael Gundlach Satoshi Obara
Brian Weis
Chris Guy Yoshihiro Ohba
Oren Yuen
Russell Housley Karen Randall
Noriyuki Ikeuchi Maximilian Riegel Daidi Zhong
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When the IEEE-SA Standards Board approved this standard on 7 February 2013, it had the following
membership:
John Kulick, Chair
Richard H. Hulett, Past Chair
Konstantinos Karachalios, Secretary
Masayuki Ariyoshi Mark Halpin Ron Peterson
Peter Balma
Gary Hoffman Gary Robinson
Farooq Bari
Paul Houzé Jon Walter Rosdahl
Ted Burse Jim Hughes Adrian Stephens
Wael William Diab Michael Janezic Peter Sutherland
Stephen Dukes Joseph L. Koepfinger* Yatin Trivedi
Jean-Philippe Faure David J. Law Phil Winston
Yu Yuan
Oleg Logvinov
Alexander Gelman
*Member Emeritus
Also included are the following nonvoting IEEE-SA Standards Board liaisons:
Richard DeBlasio, DOE Representative
Michael Janezic, NIST Representative
Catherine Berger
IEEE Senior Standards Program Manager, Document Development
Kathryn Bennett
IEEE Standards Program Manager, Technical Program Development
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Contents
3. Definitions . 2
4. Abbreviations and acronyms . 3
7. Principles of secure network operation. 4
8. MAC Security Protocol (MACsec). 5
8.3 MACsec operation . 5
9. Encoding of MACsec protocol data units. 7
9.8 Packet Number (PN). 7
9.9 Secure Channel Identifier (SCI) .7
10. Principles of MAC Security Entity (SecY) operation . 8
10.5 Secure frame generation . 8
10.6 Secure frame verification. 9
10.7 SecY management . 12
13. Management protocol . 16
13.7 Use of the MIB with extended packet numbering . 16
14. Cipher Suites. 17
14.1 Cipher Suite use . 17
14.2 Cipher Suite capabilities . 18
14.4 Cipher Suite conformance . 18
14.6 GCM–AES–256. 18
14.7 GCM–AES–XPN-128 . 19
14.8 GCM–AES–XPN-256 . 20
Annex A (normative) PICS Proforma. 22
A.13 Additional variant Cipher Suite capabilities. 22
Annex B (informative) Bibliography. 23
Annex C (informative) MACsec Test Vectors . 25
C.1 Integrity protection (54-octet frame) . 26
C.2 Integrity protection (60-octet frame) . 31
C.3 Integrity protection (65-octet frame) . 34
C.4 Integrity protection (79-octet frame) . 37
C.5 Confidentiality protection (54-octet frame). 40
C.6 Confidentiality protection (60-octet frame). 45
C.7 Confidentiality protection (61-octet frame). 48
C.8 Confidentiality protection (75-octet frame). 51
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Figures
Figure 8-2 MACsec operation . 6
Figure 9-2 SecTAG format . 7
Figure 10-5 Management controls and counters for secure frame verification. 9
Figure 14-1 Cipher Suite Protect and Validate operations . 17
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Tables
Table 10-1 Extended packet number recovery (examples). 11
Table 14-1 MACsec Cipher Suites. 18
Table C-1 Unprotected frame (example) . 26
Table C-2 Integrity protected frame (example) . 26
Table C-3 GCM-AES-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 27
Table C-4 GCM-AES-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 28
Table C-5 GCM-AES-XPN-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 29
Table C-6 GCM-AES-XPN-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 30
Table C-7 Unprotected frame (example) . 31
Table C-8 Integrity protected frame (example) . 31
Table C-11 GCM-AES-XPN-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 32
Table C-12 GCM-AES-XPN-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 33
Table C-13 Unprotected frame (example) . 34
Table C-14 Integrity protected frame (example) . 34
Table C-17 GCM-AES-XPN-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 35
Table C-18 GCM-AES-XPN-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 36
Table C-19 Unprotected frame (example) . 37
Table C-20 Integrity protected frame (example) . 37
Table C-23 GCM-AES-XPN-128 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 38
Table C-24 GCM-AES-XPN-256 Key and calculated ICV (example) . 39
Table C-25 Unprotected frame (example) . 40
Table C-26 Confidentiality protected frame (example). 40
Table C-27 GCM-AES-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 41
Table C-28 GCM-AES-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example) . 42
Table C-29 GCM-AES-XPN-128 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example). 43
Table C-30 GCM-AES-XPN-256 Key, Secure Data, and ICV (example). 44
Table C-31 Unprotected frame (example) .
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