Anyone who needs to access data on the workplace server from their home office, for example, has to rely on a secure connection that “IPsec” is supposed to ensure.
In collaboration with colleagues from Opole University in Poland, researchers at Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have demonstrated that the Internet protocol “IPsec” is vulnerable to attacks. The Internet Key Exchange protocol “IKEv1”, which is part of the protocol family, has vulnerabilities that enable potential attackers to interfere with the communication process and intercept specific information.
The research results are published by Dennis Felsch, Martin Grothe and Prof Dr Jörg Schwenk from the Chair for Network and Data Security at RUB as well as Adam Czubak and Marcin Szymanek from Opole University on 16 August 2018 at the Usenix Security Symposium as well as on their blog.
The complete press release is available here.
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