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DomainAuth Version 1
draft-narea-domainauth-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Gus Narea
Last updated 2025-10-03 (Latest revision 2025-04-01)
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Abstract

This document defines DomainAuth, a protocol to attribute digital signatures to domain names in such a way that verification can occur entirely offline without a prior distribution of public keys. Each signature is distributed as part of a self-contained "signature bundle" that encapsulates a complete chain of trust comprising: (1) a DNSSEC chain from the root zone to a TXT record containing a public key or its digest, (2) an X.509 certificate chain from the key specified in the TXT record to the final signing key, and (3) the digital signature in the form of a CMS SignedData structure. Finally, signatures can be attributed to the domain name itself (e.g. "example.com") or specific users (e.g. "alice" of "example.com").

Authors

Gus Narea

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