INTERNET EXPERIMENT
                     SECURE ANYCAST TUNNELING/ENCAPSULATION 


Preface

  The experiment is about testing the secure anycast tunneling protocol[1] in 
real-live environment. It will focus on the reference implementation anytun[2].

The secure anycast tunneling protocol is intended to be used for highly
redundant and scaleable systems. We will focus on building voice over ip
media relays and redundant VPN connections.

The experimental assignments will not be used for commericial purposes during or
after the experiment.

[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gsenger-secure-anycast-tunneling-protocol-00.txt
[2] http://www.anytun.org

Network

    Currently we have 3 hosts that will be used as anycast servers. To enable
  different tests, two of them are placed close together and one will be further
  away. They will be located in Graz, Austria and Vienna, Austria. We plan to
  bring up more hosts in other countries. All hosts will be located within
  Europe.

Peering

    The anycast hosts will be connected to AS42729, AS39837 and AS35492 and
  will use their respective peerings.

Tests

  anytun

    We want to test if the reference implementation anytun works at all and
  how different settings (like synconisation-rate of the anycast hosts) affect 
  its usability.

  host failures

    Host failures will be simulated while the host is used as a voice over ip
  media	relay. It will be tested if the call will get rerouted within an
  acceptable time.

  replay attacks

    We will try to carry out replay attacks. The effect of replay attacks
  is essentially limited by the synconisation rate and the number of online
  anycast hosts.

Schedule

    The experiment starts in august. We hope to have everything up and running
  within this month and to be able to start testing at the end of august.
  We plan to finish the experiment in february 2008. Within this time, feedback
  from our testers will help us to find and fix bugs in our software and
  to find the best settings for syncronisation intervals.

Publication

  All results will be published under Creative Commons BY NC SA. Software will
be published under GNU GPL.


Copyright 2007 Othmar Gsenger
Creative Commons BY NC SA