Secure DHCPv6
Tsinghua University
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Tsinghua University
Infoblox Inc.
Nominum, Inc.
DHCPv6 includes no deployable security mechanism that can protect end-to-end communication between DHCP clients and servers. This document describes a mechanism for using public key cryptography to provide such security. The mechanism provides encryption in all cases, and can be used for authentication based on pre-sharing of authorized certificates.