Loading MUD URLs from QR codes
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OPS Area Working Group                                     M. Richardson
Internet-Draft                                  Sandelman Software Works
Intended status: Informational                                 J. Latour
Expires: 7 September 2020                                      CIRA Labs
                                                   H. Habibi Gharakheili
                                                             UNSW Sydney
                                                            6 March 2020

                     Loading MUD URLs from QR codes
            draft-richardson-opsawg-securehomegateway-mud-03

Abstract

   This informational document details the mechanism used by the CIRA
   Secure Home Gateway (SHG) to load MUD definitions for devices which
   have no integrated MUD (RFC8520) support.

   The document describes extensions to the WiFi Alliance DPP QR code to
   support the use of MUD URLs.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Protocol  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Generic URL or Version Specific URL . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8

1.  Introduction

   The Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) [RFC8520] defines a YANG
   data model to express what sort of access a device requires to
   operate correctly.  The document additionally defines three ways for
   the device to communicate the URL of the resulting JSON [RFC8259]
   format file to a network enforcement point: DHCP, within an X.509
   certificate extension, and via LLDP.

   Each of the above mechanism conveys the MUD URL inband, and requires
   modifications to the device firmware.  Most small IoT devices do not
   have LLDP, and have very restricted DHCP clients.  Adding the LLDP or
   DHCP options requires at least some minimal configuration change, and
   possibly entire new subsystems.  The X.509 certificateion extension
   only makes sense to deploy as part of a larger IDevID based
   [ieee802-1AR] system such as [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra].

   In all cases these mechanisms can only be implemented by persons with
   access to modify and update the firmware of the device.  The MUD
   system was designed to be implemented by Manufacturers afterall!

   In the meantime there is a chicken or egg problem ([chickenegg]): no
   manufacturers include MUD URLs in their products as there are no
   gateways that use them.  No gateways include code that processes MUD
   URLs as no products produce them.

   The mechanism described here allows any person with physical access
   to the device to affix a reference to a MUD URL that can later be
   scanned by an end user.  This can be done by the (marketing

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