| Internet-Draft | I2BGP | November 2022 |
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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a routing protocol for autonomous systems running on TCP. It is currently the only protocol capable of handling multiple connections between unrelated routing domains,such as the size of the Internet. BGP is built on the experience of EGP.¶
The main function of BGP system is to exchange network access information with other BGP systems. However, it cannot fully utilizethe complete information in the domain to achieve the optimal decision.This document proposes I2BGP, which describes how to obtain desensitization information in the domain to optimize routing decisions.¶
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Border Gate way Protocol (BGP) early used to solve the problem of the interconnection between a large number of Internet ASs (autonomous systems). Compared with the traditional dual-IP dual-wire technology, it is more efficient. At present, the BGP protocol is widely deployed on the Internet,and there are many important enhancements to improve BGP performance in terms of refifining scheduling granularity, accelerating convergence time, anomalous behavior detection and so on.¶
However,current BGP-like protocols follow the basic principle of taking hops - the number of Autonomous Systems (AS) on a path - as the metric for routing: the less hops, the higher the priority of the path,such as [RFC4271]. Such strategy regards all domains as indiscriminate blackbox and thus can not achieve the optimal inter-domain routing decisions due to the lack of intra-domain information.¶
This document proposes I2BGP which developed based on BGP-4.It use a Desensitized Intra-domain information-aware Tactic (DIT) to assist inter-domain routing decisions, which can be embedded in BGP or applied independently as a control-plane strategy. DIT can make use of intra-domain information while protecting data privacy at the same time,thus solving the contradiction between data sharing and privacy protection.¶
DIT: The frame that the document proposed,which makes near-optimal inter-domain routing decisions with desensitized intra-domain information that the document proposed¶
AS/ASes:Autonomous Systems in the internet.¶
I2BGP: The special protocol which based on BGP and owned the ability that extract the message from intra-domain and make the optimal decision¶
DRT: It represents uppercase mathematical symbol of delta.¶
drt: It represents lower mathematical symbols of delta.¶
o: The article uses it for the same OR operation,mainly in the formula of encryption and decryption.¶
o+:The article uses it for the XOR operation,mainly in the formula of encryption and decryption.¶
This section describes some essential requirements for I2GBP and the scenario about the problem hidden in BGP.¶
Data within a domain could be exported, mainly referring to the link performance status,e.g., delay, bandwidth, packet loss rate, hops, etc. The performance of an inter-domain transmission is jointly determined by the link performance of all passed domains, then, for different attributes, which can be summarized as bottleneck type (bandwidth) and cumulative type (delay, packet loss rate, hops), the calculation of combination will be different.In this document, I2BGP takes the number of hops as a typical example that ought to be calculated by addition.¶
Private information of domains should not be deduced from the exported information, because information like hops may involve intra-domain topology, which requires that the information cannot be directly disclosed to other ASes.¶
BGP cannot use the information in the domain to make routing decisions, which often makes the final routing decision not optimal. Take the forwarding hops as an example, Figure 1 shows two paths between server s and client c:Path A with 4 As hops (s -> a1 -> a2 -> a3 -> c ) and Path B with 2 As hops(s -> b -> c ). For client c, Path B will be selected as actually routing path according the principle of BGP, and Path A will be discarded. But in fact, there are additional hops in each domain, shown as the numbers in Figure 1, which makes path A the real better path.¶
```¶
+---+ +---+ +---+
+---------+ 2 +--------+ 3 +-------+ 2 +------------+
| +---+ +---+ +---+ |
+----+---+ As a1 As a2 As a3 +----+---+
|Server s | | Cilent c |
+----+---+ +---+ +----+---+
+----------------------+15 +---------------------------+
+---+
As b
```¶
This section describes the model of I2BGP and how it exports the information from intra-domain without revealing data and make the final route decision.The judgment attributes of traditional BGP path selection do not include the impact of intra-domain performance.The document introduces an additional attribute, Attr, for BGP to accomplish data carrying and spreading.¶
Due to each domain is a confidential system with complete independence and autonomy and BGP runs at border routers of each domain and specifies the next hop when forwarding across domains according to the RFC4271. In order to fetch messages from the domain,I2BGP proposes the DIT technique.It masks the intra-domain topology and abstract each domain into a characteristic topology graph with its border routers exclusively.Because there are direct or indirect connections between all border routers (nodes) of a domain,and we abstract these connections as edges between nodes.¶
After taking the information out of the domain, in order to prevent the information in the domain from being leaked, DIT proposes a random obfuscation technology to ensure data security, which can ensure that information in the domain can be obtained while imitating information security issues.Finally, we spread the retrieved information to other domains through the new field Attr, and obtain the optimal route by comparing this field.¶
This document introduces homomorphic cryptography to export information without revealing data, and to ensure the validity of the final calculation results. Homomorphic Cryptography provide a potential solution to the contradiction of information exportation and privacy , it is a kind of cryptographic technique that performs arithmetic operations on the encrypted data and yields a result equivalent to the cyphertext result of some computation on the unencrypted original data. Its principle can be explained as follow:¶
De(En(a)oEn(b)) = ao+b,¶
where En() is the encryption operation, De() is the decryption operation, o and o+are correspond to the operations on the plaintext and cyphertext domains, respectively. When o+ represents addition, this encryption is an additive homomorphic encryption, and when 鈯?represents multiplication, this encryption is a multiplicative homomorphic encryption. The encryption function that satisfifies both additive homomorphism and multiplicative homomorphism properties and can perform any times of additive and multiplicative operations is called fully homomorphic encryption.¶
Homomorphic encryption algorithms usually have high computational complexity.I2BGP select a algorithm which encrypt simple numbers and satisfy homomorphic additivity to avoid this problem.¶
Firstly,we mask the intra-domain topology and abstract each domain into a characteristic topology graphwith its border routers exclusively. Because of the reachability between routes within a domain, there are direct or indirect connections between all border routers (nodes) of a domain,and we abstract these connections as edges between nodes.¶
Assuming intra-domain information is directly embedded in BGP header and transmitted to the neighbors. Then, during the route convergence process, cumulative calculations (e.g.,addition, min() or max()) over multiple domains can inherently protect the privacy of all upstream domains data, i.e.,mathematically speaking, on the basis of c = a + b, it couldnot infer the values of a and b when only c is known. This is one of the foundations for the privacy protection in DIT.However, the inherent data privacy protection brought by cumulative calculations is effective only after at least one such operation has already been conducted. In other words, the cumulative calculations can only achieve non-destination domain data protection. For example, as shown in the Figure 2, for As 3, the value of As 1or As 2 cannot be inferred from the cumulative summation sent from As 2. However, As 2 is directly connected to the destination domain of the route (As 1), the value of As 1 is directly exposed to As 2 due to the lack of protection from cumulative calculation. That is, for the destination domain of each route, information leakage risk still exists, which is caused by directly connected neighbordomains, we name it the Direct Connection issue.¶
To solve Direct Connection issue, we propose a basicmethod named Random Number Confusion. In the path selection process, it is only necessary to select the optimal pathby basic comparisons. Just like giving random offsets to all nodes in the coordinate system will not change the relative positions. Therefore, for target D, DIT adds a random number to the data in the domain when initially spreading the data to the adjacent domain, that is, D will export the data in the domain, which will not affect the comparison of the final results¶
After fetching the data,to carry the above intra-domain data, we add a new filed,Attr, to the BGP packet header, although which is not strictly required because we can also reuse existing fields, provided the re-definition of the field function is approved. And the quantifified value of the destination-based cumulative path performance is embedded into this fifield and diffused to neighbor domains with the route update message.Then the optimal route is obtained by comparing.¶
```¶
+--------+ +--------+ +--------+
| | | | | |
| As 1 +--+ As 2 +---+ As 3 |
| | | | | |
+-----+--+ +--+-----+ +--------+
| |
+---+----------+-+
| |
| As 4 |
| |
+------------------+
```¶
While Random Number Confusion solves the destination direct connection issue, there is still a trap of information leakage. It can be drawed from a mathematical perspective. Suppose it is known that x1 + x2 = y1 and x1 + x2 + x3 = y2. Even if x1 and x2 are unknown, x3 can also be calculated by using the difference value (DRT) between y1 and y2, i.e., x3 = y2 - y1. As shown in the Figure 2 ,the value of As 3 can be obtained using the aforementioned difference value (DRT) method by As 4.To solve the problem, the document proposed Enhanced DIT.¶
Delta Trap (DRT) is triggered by one path has one more hop (itself) than the other of same destination.From perspective of connection topology, triangular structure is at risk of data leakage. Based on this, the document design a private number comparison algorithm leveraged by homomorphic encryption, which iscapable of comparing paths in a triangle topology under guarantee of data security. The comparison result could guide the logical removal of non-shortest paths. It includes classic homomorphic encryption algorithm Paillier and a private number comparison algorithm.¶
Paillier algorithm randomly selecting two large prime to generate key.Then it can process the corresponding value by encrypting and decrypting. Based on Paillier, the private number comparison which is used as an independent module of DIT is patch the leakage caused by Delta Trap (DRT).¶
Private Number Comparison firstly detectes the triangle structures from the network topology. Then it will compare paths , comparison and path selection would be accomplished by communicating with each other As. As shown in Figure 3,suppose A, B and C, each of which is responsible for local values, NA, NB, NC , respectively. First,A sends encrypted NA by private key of A, EnA(NA), to B and C. After receiving the message from A, B sends EnA(NA)oEnA(NB) to C, where represents homomorphic addition calculation, which means En(x)oEn(y) = En(x+y). After receiving the message from A and B, C sends EnA(NA +NB) EnA((drt)C ) and EnA(NA)oEnA(NC + (drt)C ) to A in the specifified order. After receiving the message from C, A decrypts and subtracts the two values,DeA. (EnA(NA + NB + (drt)C )) - DeA(EnA(NA + NC + (drt)C )), and get the signed delta value (drt)C , which will be sent back to C. Finally, according to DRTC , C and A can determine the priority of the two paths, Path(C->A) and Path(C->B->A) .¶
```¶
+--------------------+
| |
| a=En(Na) |
+------------+ +---------+
| |(dtl)c=De(c1)-De(c2)| |
| | | |(1)a
(1)a| +---------Na---------+ |(3)c1,c2
| |(4)(dlt)c
+-------+---------+ +--------+--------------+
| | | c1=aoEn(Nc+(dlt)c) |
| b=aoEn(Nb) +-----------------+ |
| | (2)b | c2=boEn((dlt)c) |
+-------Nb--------+ +---------Nc-------------+
```¶
I2BGP introduces a new field Attr based on BGP to obtain the message of link in domain. The transmission and use of this field is similar to med and local-pref in the BGP header.¶
There are no IANA considerations related to this document.¶
Due to I2BGP is based on BGP,I2BGP faces the following security risks like BGP:¶
1.TCP/IP protocol vulnerabilities: I2BGP runs on top of TCP, and no special encryption and authentication mechanisms are designed. All attacks against TCP/IP vulnerabilities can cause harm to the operation of I2BGP.¶
2.Communication mechanism loopholes: There are many loopholes in the operation mechanism of I2BGP itself. If an external attacker maliciously modifies the message content and the order of sending messages, the I2BGP peers will not be able to exchange routing information normally through BGP.¶
3.Information verification vulnerability: I2BGP does not have a corresponding mechanism to ensure the authenticity of router routing information. If a router announces false, wrong or suboptimal routing information to its neighbors, the existing mechanism cannot identify it.¶
Acknowledgements to Yuchao Zhang,Peizhuang Cong,Haiyang Jiang, Lei Wang,Wendong Wang,Xiangyang Gong,Dan Li for their review and contributions.¶