RFC 7430: Analysis of Residual Threats and Possible Fixes for Multipath TCP (MPTCP)

This document analyzes the residual threats for Multipath TCP (MPTCP) and explores possible solutions to address them.

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Normative reference — RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA)
Normative reference — RFC 6056: Recommendations for Transport-Protocol Port Randomization
Normative reference — RFC 5961: Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks
Normative reference — RFC 6824: TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses
Normative reference — RFC 4895: Authenticated Chunks for the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)
Normative reference — RFC 5061: Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration
Normative reference — RFC 6528: Defending against Sequence Number Attacks
Informative reference — RFC 4960: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2827: Network Ingress Filtering: Defeating Denial of Service Attacks which employ IP Source Address Spoofing
Informative reference — RFC 6275: Mobility Support in IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 4987: TCP SYN Flooding Attacks and Common Mitigations
Informative reference — RFC 5533: Shim6: Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol for IPv6
Informative reference — RFC 7039: Source Address Validation Improvement (SAVI) Framework
Informative reference — RFC 6181: Threat Analysis for TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses

Incoming relationships (1 related RFC)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 8684: TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple Addresses