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Why is the Diffie-Hellman exchange not enough to authenticate the communication partners in IKE_SA_INIT?

The IKE_SA_INIT does create a key seed SKEYSEED from the Diffie-Hellman values and nonces. Since the exchange does sharing the secret between the communication partners, I do not understand why it is ...
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IKE Phase 1 /w PSK resource?

I can't seem to find a sufficiently detailed resource that describes the IKE phase 1 PSK identity authentication process. They seem to focus on differences between aggressive and main mode while ...
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Is IKE aggressive mode really less secure than main mode?

This guy argues it is not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuowFgNKAIg I really confused about this. According to him, the only purpose of main mode is to make the peers anonymous, but in order to ...
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What is a KEA certificate and how it is used?

I'm currently studying IKE and IPsec in the context of VPN applications and I know that a X.509 certificate is used to provide server's public key to the client (and vice-versa in case of mutual ...
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how IKE (Internet Key Exchange) protocol reacts to the replay attack?

I mean how IKE in any mode (quick,aggressive, main) responds to an attacker that tries to replay one or more messages?
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In IKE protocol; what is the PRF? [duplicate]

In IKE protocol; what is the PRF ? What is "the generation of a key based on modeled random oracle hash functions"?
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Why should an IKE responder change the cookie secret 'frequently'?

IKEv2 has the concept of a COOKIE mode, to attempt to prevent state exhaustion from floods of initiation requests from non-existent IP addresses: Two expected attacks against IKE are state and CPU ...
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