The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA
draft-ietf-dane-protocol-20

Network Working Group                                         P. Hoffman
Internet-Draft                                            VPN Consortium
Intended status: Standards Track                             J. Schlyter
Expires: October 31, 2012                                       Kirei AB
                                                          April 29, 2012

 The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer
                     Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA
                      draft-ietf-dane-protocol-20

Abstract

   Encrypted communication on the Internet often uses Transport Level
   Security (TLS), which depends on third parties to certify the keys
   used.  This document improves on that situation by enabling the
   administrators of domain names to specify the keys used in that
   domain's TLS servers.  This requires matching improvements in TLS
   client software, but no change in TLS server software.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.1.  Background and Motivation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.2.  Securing the Association of a Domain Name with a
           Server's Certificate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     1.3.  Method For Securing Certificate Associations . . . . . . .  6
     1.4.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   2.  The TLSA Resource Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     2.1.  TLSA RDATA Wire Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       2.1.1.  The Certificate Usage Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       2.1.2.  The Selector Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       2.1.3.  The Matching Type Field  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       2.1.4.  The Certificate Association Data Field . . . . . . . . 10
     2.2.  TLSA RR Presentation Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     2.3.  TLSA RR Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   3.  Domain Names for TLSA Certificate Associations . . . . . . . . 11
   4.  Use of TLSA Records in TLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.1.  Usable Certificate Associations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   5.  TLSA and DANE Use Cases and Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   6.  Mandatory-to-Implement Features  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     7.1.  TLSA RRtype  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     7.2.  TLSA Certificate Usages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     7.3.  TLSA Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
     7.4.  TLSA Matching Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   8.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
     8.1.  Comparing DANE to Public CAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     8.2.  DNS Caching  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
   9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20