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Does IPsec is mandatory for diameter protocol ?

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Does IPsec is mandatory for diameter protocol ?
posted Sep 9, 2014 by Neelam

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No its not, IPSEC is for transport layer security and optional completely depends on the need of the network.
commented Sep 10, 2014 by Salil Agrawal

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IPSec 'MAY' be used, but Diameter (especially new RFC 6733) prefers TLS (DTLS for SCTP). If IPSec is used it is transparent at the transport layer. RFC says that Diameter SHOULD be secured by TLS or DTLS - which essentially means that it is strongly recommended.
In practice, since lot of Diameter traffic is within single network (billing, policy etc), we see that vendors/operators don't secure Diameter traffic.

answer Sep 10, 2014 by Rathnakumar Kayyar
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If I am correct, it is not necessary having IPsec . Please go through RFC-6733.

answer Sep 10, 2014 by Harshita
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