Network Working Group Z. Hu
Internet-Draft L. Zhu
Intended status: Standards Track J. Heidemann
Expires: January 6, 2016 USC/Information Sciences
Institute
A. Mankin
D. Wessels
Verisign Labs
P. Hoffman
ICANN
July 5, 2015
TLS for DNS: Initiation and Performance Considerations
draft-ietf-dprive-start-tls-for-dns-01
Abstract
This document offers an approach to initiating TLS for DNS: use of a
dedicated DNS-over-TLS port, and fallback to a mechanism for
upgrading a DNS-over-TCP connection over the standard port (TCP/53)
to a DNS-over-TLS connection. Encryption provided by TLS eliminates
opportunities for eavesdropping on DNS queries in the network, such
as discussed in RFC 7258. In addition it specifies two usage
profiles for DNS-over-TLS. Finally, it provides advice on
performance considerations to minimize overheads from using TCP and
TLS with DNS, pertaining to both approaches.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Reserved Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Protocol Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Use by DNS Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.1. Port-Based DNS-over-TLS for Clients . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1.2. Sending Queries for Upgrade-Based DNS-over-TLS . . . . 5
2.1.3. Receiving Responses for Upgrade-Based DNS-over-TLS . . 5
2.1.4. Use by DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.5. Established Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2. Downgrade Attacks and Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Usage Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Opportunistic Privacy Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Pre-Deployed Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Performance Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Implementation Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. Unbound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.2. ldns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.3. digit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.4. getdns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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1. Introduction
Today, nearly all DNS queries ([RFC1034] and [RFC1035]) are sent
unencrypted, which makes them vulnerable to eavesdropping by an
attacker that has access to the network channel, reducing the privacy
of the querier. Recent news reports have elevated these concerns,
and ongoing efforts are beginning to identify privacy concerns about
DNS ([I-D.ietf-dprive-problem-statement]).
Prior work has addressed some aspects of DNS security, but until
recently there has been little work on privacy between a DNS client
and server. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC, [RFC4033]) provide
_response integrity_ by defining mechanisms to cryptographically sign
zones, allowing end-users (or their first-hop resolver) to verify
replies are correct. By intention, DNSSEC does not protect request
and response privacy. Traditionally, either privacy was not
considered a requirement for DNS traffic, or it was assumed that
network traffic was sufficiently private, however these perceptions
are evolving due to recent events [RFC7258].
DNSCurve [draft-dempsky-dnscurve] defines a method to add
confidentiality to the link between DNS clients and servers; however,
it does so with a new cryptographic protocol and does not take
advantage of an existing standard protocol such as TLS.
ConfidentialDNS [draft-wijngaards-confidentialdns] and IPSECA
[draft-osterweil-dane-ipsec] use opportunistic encryption to offer
privacy for DNS queries and responses. Finally, others have
suggested DNS-over-TLS. Unbound DNS software [unbound] includes a
DNS-over-TLS implementation. The present document goes beyond past
DNS-over-TLS discussions by providing two modes of initiation for
DNS-over-TLS: use of a well-known port, and use of a negotiation
mechanism in an established connection.
Protocol changes proposed here must consider potential interactions
with middle boxes. The port-based initiation of TLS is very
straightforward, but might be blocked by firewalls or be unwelcome to
some DNS client or server implementations. If port-based initiation
of TLS fails, the negotiation mechanism allows DNS clients and
servers to upgrade an existing DNS-over-TCP connection to a DNS-over-
TLS connection, analogous to upgrade mechanisms in other uses of TLS,
such as STARTTLS [RFC2595] used in SMTP [RFC3207], IMAP [RFC3501] and
POP [RFC1939], to name just a few of many. Adding TLS to DNS-over-
TCP avoids port blocking, but maybe interact poorly with middle boxes
that inspect DNS traffic. As is generally the case with TLS, both
approaches are subject to downgrade attacks, as discussed in
Section 2.2.
The protocol described here works for any DNS client to server
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communication using DNS-over-TCP. There can be different profiles
providing different levels of privacy, as discussed in Section 3.
The protocol may be used for any DNS communication both from stub to
recursive, and from recursive to authoritative servers, but different
protocols may be preferable for different environments.
This document describes two profiles Section 3 providing different
levels of assurance of privacy: an opportunistic privacy profile and
a pre-deployed profile.
1.1. Reserved Words
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
2. Protocol Changes
The only changes required for port-based DNS-over-TLS are those
optimizing TCP and TLS performance discussed in the following. The
DNS protocol itself is unchanged.
DISCUSSION: Draft authors seek input from the working group regarding
the need for both port- and upgrade-based approaches. Removing the
upgrade-based technique would simplify this document and
implementations. However, there may perhaps be situations where the
upgrade-based technique works (over port 53) that a port-based
technique would not work (i.e., due to aggressive port blocking by
firewalls).
Clients and servers negotiate upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS by setting a
bit in the Flags field of the EDNS0 [RFC6891] OPT meta-RR. The "TLS
OK" (TO) bit is defined as the second bit of the third and fourth
bytes of the "extended RCODE and flags" portion of the EDNS0 OPT
meta-RR, immediately adjacent to the "DNSSEC OK" (DO) bit [RFC4033]:
+0 (MSB) +1 (LSB)
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
0: | EXTENDED-RCODE | VERSION |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
2: |DO|TO| Z |
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
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2.1. Use by DNS Clients
DNS clients first try port-based DNS-over-TLS. If that connection
fails, they try upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS.
2.1.1. Port-Based DNS-over-TLS for Clients
DNS clients SHOULD first try using port-based DNS-over-TLS by
establishing the TCP connection to the dedicated port TBD (number to
be defined in Section 5). Clients MAY try STARTTLS upgrade before
the dedicated port if there is information that this ordering is
preferred. It SHOULD be an implementation and/or local determination
as to whether to attempt TLS via the dedicated port first and then
fall back to STARTTLS use, or to choose some other order of attempts
and fallbacks.
2.1.2. Sending Queries for Upgrade-Based DNS-over-TLS
Setting the TO bit in queries sent using UDP transport has no
protocol meaning. However, the client MAY set the TO bit when using
UDP transport. The server MUST ignore the TO bit when receiving UDP
transport.
DNS clients set the TO bit in the initial query sent to a server
using TCP transport to signal their desire that the TCP connection be
upgraded to TLS. DNS clients SHOULD NOT set the TO bit on queries
when using TLS transport because doing so has no meaning in this
protocol.
Since the motivation for upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS is to preserve
privacy, DNS clients SHOULD use an initial (unprotected) query that
reveals no private information in the initial TO=1 query to a server.
To provide a standard "dummy" query, it is RECOMMENDED to send the
initial query with RD=0, QNAME="STARTTLS", QCLASS=CH, and QTYPE=TXT
("STARTTLS/CH/TXT") analogous to administrative queries already in
widespread use [RFC4892]. (For some profiles, the client MUST use a
dummy query for the initial query.)
After sending the initial TO=1 query using TCP transport, DNS clients
MUST wait for the initial response before sending any subsequent
queries over the same TCP connection.
2.1.3. Receiving Responses for Upgrade-Based DNS-over-TLS
A DNS client that receives a response using UDP transport that has
the TO bit set handles that response as usual. It MAY record the
server's support for DNS-over-TLS and use that information as part of
its server selection algorithm in the case where multiple servers are
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available to service a particular query.
A DNS client that receives a response to its initial query using TCP
transport that has the TO bit clear MUST NOT initiate a TLS handshake
and MAY utilize the existing TCP connection for subsequent
(unencrypted) queries. DNS clients SHOULD remember server IP
addresses that don't support upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS, including
TLS handshake failures, and not request DNS-over-TLS from them for a
reasonable period (such as one hour per server).
A DNS client that has sent the TO bit using TCP transport and
receives a response to its initial query that has the TO bit set MUST
immediately initiate a TLS handshake using the procedure described in
[RFC5246]. If the TLS handshake does not succeed, the client MUST
close the connection and treat the server as described above for
future queries.
2.1.4. Use by DNS Servers
A DNS server that supports DNS-over-TLS SHOULD support port-based
DNS-over-TLS, and SHOULD support upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS.
2.1.4.1. Receiving Queries for Upgrade-Based DNS-over-TLS
A DNS server receiving a query over UDP with the TO bit ignores that
bit. A DNS server receiving a query over an existing TLS connection
with the TO bit ignores that bit.
A DNS server receiving an initial query over TCP that has the TO bit
set MAY inform the client it is willing to establish a TLS session,
as described in the next section.
A DNS server receiving subsequent queries over TCP MUST ignore the TO
bit. (A client wishing to start TLS after the initial query MUST
open a new TCP connection to do so.)
2.1.4.2. Sending Responses
A DNS server sending a response over UDP to a query that had an OPT
meta-RR SHOULD set the TO bit to indicate its general support for
DNS-over-TLS, as long as it is willing and able to support a TLS
connection with the particular client.
A DNS server receiving an initial query over TCP that has the TO bit
set MAY set the TO bit in its response. The server MUST then proceed
with the TLS handshake protocol.
A DNS server receiving a "dummy" STARTTLS/CH/TXT query over TCP MUST
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respond with RCODE=0 and a TXT RR in the Answer section. Contents of
the TXT RR are strictly informative (for humans) and MUST NOT be
interpreted by the client software. Recommended TXT RDATA values are
"STARTTLS" or "NO_TLS".
2.1.5. Established Sessions
After TLS negotiation completes, the connection will be encrypted and
is now protected from eavesdropping and normal DNS queries SHOULD
take place, following DNS-over-TCP framing ([RFC1035], section
4.2.2). For reasons of efficiency, DNS clients and servers SHOULD
transmit the two-octet length field, and the message described by
that length field, in a single TCP segment ([I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis],
section 8).
For DNS clients that use library functions such as "gethostbyname()",
current implementations are known to open and close UDP connections
each DNS call. To avoid many TCP connections, each with a single
query, clients SHOULD reuse a single TCP connection to the recursive
resolver. Alternatively they may prefer to use UDP to a DNS-over-TLS
enabled caching resolver on the same machine that then uses a system-
wide TCP connection to the recursive resolver.
In order to amortize TCP and TLS connetion setup costs, clients and
servers SHOULD NOT immediately close a connection after each
response. Instead, clients and servers SHOULD reuse existing
connections for subsequent queries as long as they have sufficient
resources. In some cases, this means that clients and servers may
need to keep idle connections open for some amount of time.
Proper management of established and idle connections is important to
the healthy operation of a DNS server. An implementor of DNS-over-
TLS SHOULD follow best practices for DNS-over-TCP, as described in
[I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis]. Failure to do so may lead to resource
exhaustion and denial-of-service.
Whereas client and server implementations from the [RFC1035] era are
known to have poor TCP connection management, this document
stipulates that successful negotation of TLS indicates the
willingness of both parties to keep idle DNS connections open,
independent of timeouts or other recommendations for DNS-over-TCP
without TLS. In other words, software implemeting this protocol is
assumed to support idle, persistent connections and to have good
connection management.
This document does not make specific recommendations for timeout
values on idle connections. Clients and servers should reuse and/or
close connections depending on the level of available resources.
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Timeouts may be longer during periods of low activity and shorter
during periods of high activity. Current work in this area may also
assist DNS-over-TLS clients and servers select useful timeout values
[draft-wouters-edns-tcp-keepalive] [tdns].
Clients and servers that keep idle connections open MUST be robust to
termination of idle connection by either party. As with current DNS-
over-TCP, DNS servers MAY close the connection at any time (e.g., due
to resource constraints). As with current DNS-over-TCP, clients MUST
handle abrupt closes and be prepared to reestablish connections
and/or retry queries.
When closing a connection, DNS servers SHOULD use the TLS close-
notify request to shift TCP TIME-WAIT state to the clients.
Additional requirements and guidance for optimizing DNS-over-TCP are
provided by [RFC5966], [I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis]. As discussed in
[I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis], TCP Fast Open [RFC7413] is of benefit.
2.2. Downgrade Attacks and Middleboxes
Middleboxes [RFC3234] may be present in some networks and have been
known to interfere with normal DNS resolution and create problems for
DNS-over-TLS. Remarkably, downgrade attacks can affect plaintext
protocols that utilize "STARTTLS" signaling in a similar way. A DNS
client attempting upgrade-based DNS-over-TLS through a middlebox, or
in the presence of a downgrade attack, could have one of the
following outcomes. (These outcomes are similar to those discussed
in prior RFCs, such as [RFC3207].)
o The DNS client sends a TO=1 query and receives a TO=0 response.
In this case there is no upgrade to TLS and DNS resolution occurs
normally, without encryption.
o The DNS client sends a TO=1 query and receives a TO=1 response,
but the middlebox does not understand the TLS negotiation and does
not allow the TLS handshake packets to pass. Clients SHOULD retry
DNS without TO set if negotiation fails, and then retry with TLS
after a reasonable period (see Section 2.1.3).
o The DNS client sends a TO=1 query but receives no response at all.
The middlebox might be silently dropping the query due to the
presence of the TO bit, when it should, in fact, ignore and pass
through unknown flag bits [RFC6891]. The client SHOULD fall back
to normal (unencrypted) DNS for a reasonable period (as discussed
in Section 2.1.3).
In general, clients that attempt TLS and fail can either fall back on
unencrypted DNS, or wait and retry later, depending on their privacy
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requirements.
3. Usage Profiles
This protocol provides flexibility to accommodate several different
use cases. Two usage profiles are defined here to identify specific
design points in performance and privacy. Other profiles are
possible but are outside the scope of this document.
3.1. Opportunistic Privacy Profile
For opportunistic privacy, analogous to SMTP opportunistic encryption
[RFC7435] one desires privacy when possible, but does not require it.
With opportunistic privacy, a client might acquire a recursive DNS
resolver from an untrusted source (such as DHCP while roaming), it
might or might not validate the TLS certificate, and it might not use
a dummy value for the initial query. These choices maximize
availability and performance, but they are vulnerable to on-path
attacks.
Opportunistic privacy can be used by any current client, but it only
provides privacy when there are no on-path active attackers.
3.2. Pre-Deployed Profile
For pre-deployed privacy, the DNS client has one or more trusted
recursive DNS providers. This profile provides strong privacy
guarantees to the user.
With pre-deployed privacy, a client retains a copy of the TLS
certificate (and/or other authentication credentials as appropriate)
and IP address of each provider. The client will only use one of
those DNS providers. Because it has a pre-deployed TLS certificate,
it may detect person-in-the-middle and downgrade attacks.
With pre-deployed privacy, the DNS client MUST signal to the user
when none of the designated DNS servers are available, and MUST NOT
provide DNS service until one of the designated DNS servers becomes
available.
The designated DNS provider may be temporarily unavailable when
configuring a network. For example, for clients on networks that
require authentication through web-based login, such authentication
may require DNS interception and spoofing. Techniques such as those
used by DNSSEC-trigger [dnssec-trigger] MAY be used during network
configuration, with the intent to transition to the designated DNS
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provider after authentication. The user MUST be alerted that the DNS
is not private during such bootstrap.
Methods for pre-deployment of the designated DNS provider are outside
the scope of this document. In corporate settings, such information
may be provided at system installation. Use of multiple public DNS
providers suggests that end users are able to configure DNS by hand.
4. Performance Considerations
DNS-over-TLS incurs additional latency at session startup. It also
requires additional state (memory) and increased processing (CPU).
1. Latency: Compared to UDP, DNS-over-TCP requires an additional
round-trip-time (RTT) of latency to establish the connection.
The TLS handshake adds another two RTTs of latency. Clients and
servers should support connection keepalive (reuse) and out-of-
order processing to amortize connection setup costs. Moreover,
TLS connection resumption can further reduce the setup delay.
DNS servers SHOULD enable fast TLS session resumption [RFC5077]
to avoid keeping per-client session state. TLS False Start
[draft-tls-falsestart] can also lead to a latency reduction in
certain situations.
2. State: The use of connection-oriented TCP requires keeping
additional state in both kernels and applications. TLS has
marginal increases in state over TCP alone. The state
requirements are of particular concerns on servers with many
clients. Smaller timeout values will reduce the number of
concurrent connections, and servers can preemptively close
connections when resources limits are exceeded.
3. Processing: Use of TLS encryption algorithms results in slightly
higher CPU usage. Servers can choose to refuse new DNS-over-TCP
clients if processing limits are exceeded.
4. Number of connections: To minimize state on DNS servers and
connection startup time, clients SHOULD minimize creation of new
TCP connections. Use of a local DNS request aggregator (a
particular type of forwarder) allows a single active DNS-over-TLS
connection from any given client computer to its server.
Additional guidance can be found in [I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis].
A full performance evaluation is outside the scope of this
specification. A more detailed analysis of the performance
implications of DNS-over-TLS (and DNS-over-TCP) is discussed in a
technical report [tdns] and [I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis].
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5. IANA Considerations
This document defines a new bit ("TO") in the Flags field of the
EDNS0 OPT meta-RR. At the time of approval of this draft in the
standards track, as per the IANA Considerations of RFC 6891, IANA is
requested to reserve the second leftmost bit of the flags as the TO
bit, immediately adjacent to the DNSSEC DO bit, as shown in
Section 2.
IANA is requested add the following value to the "Service Name and
Transport Protocol Port Number Registry" registry. That registry is
populated by expert review [RFC6335], and such a review will be
requested if this document progresses.
Service Name DNS-over-TLS
Transport Protocol(s) TCP
Assignee IESG
Contact TBD
Description DNS query-response protocol run over TLS
Reference This document
6. Implementation Status
[Note to RFC Editor: please remove this section and reference to RFC
6982 prior to publication.]
This section records the status of known implementations of the
protocol defined by this specification at the time of posting of this
Internet-Draft, and is based on a proposal described in RFC 6982.
The description of implementations in this section is intended to
assist the IETF in its decision processes in progressing drafts to
RFCs. Please note that the listing of any individual implementation
here does not imply endorsement by the IETF. Furthermore, no effort
has been spent to verify the information presented here that was
supplied by IETF contributors. This is not intended as, and must not
be construed to be, a catalog of available implementations or their
features. Readers are advised to note that other implementations may
exist.
According to RFC 6982, "this will allow reviewers and working groups
to assign due consideration to documents that have the benefit of
running code, which may serve as evidence of valuable experimentation
and feedback that have made the implemented protocols more mature.
It is up to the individual working groups to use this information as
they see fit".
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6.1. Unbound
The Unbound recursive name server software added support for port-
based DNS-over-TLS in version 1.4.14. The unbound.conf configuration
file has the following configuration directives: ssl-port, ssl-
service-key, ssl-service-pem, ssl-upstream. See
https://unbound.net/documentation/unbound.conf.html.
Sinodun Internet Technologies has implemented upgrade-based DNS-over-
TLS in Unbound-1.5.1 (patch available at https://portal.sinodun.com/
stash/projects/TDNS/repos/dns-over-tls_patches/browse) for both stub-
to-recursive and recursive-to-authoritative.
6.2. ldns
Sinodun Internet Technologies has implemented both upgrade-based and
port-based DNS-over-TLS in the ldns library from NLnetLabs. This
also gives DNS-over-TLS support to the drill DNS client program.
Patches available at https://portal.sinodun.com/stash/projects/TDNS/
repos/dns-over-tls_patches/browse.
6.3. digit
The digit DNS client from USC/ISI supports both port- and upgrade-
based DNS-over-TLS. Source code available at
http://www.isi.edu/ant/software/tdns/index.html.
6.4. getdns
The getdns API implementation supports both port- and upgrade-based
DNS-over-TLS. Upgrade-based operation requires linking getdns with a
patched version of libunbound. Source code available at
https://getdnsapi.net.
7. Security Considerations
Use of TLS for DNS addresses is designed to address the privacy risks
arise because DNS queries may be eavesdropped upon. It does not
address other security issues in DNS, and there are a number of
residual risks that may affect its success at protecting privacy:
1. There are known attacks on TLS, such as person-in-the-middle and
protocol downgrade. These are general attacks on TLS and not
specific to DNS-over-TLS; please refer to the TLS RFCs for
discussion of these security issues.
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2. Any protocol interactions prior to the TLS handshake are
performed in the clear and can be modified by a man-in-the-middle
attacker. For this reason, clients MAY discard cached
information about server capabilities advertised prior to the
start of the TLS handshake.
3. As with other uses of STARTTLS-upgrade to TLS, the mechanism
specified here is susceptible to downgrade attacks, where a
person-in-the-middle prevents a successful TLS upgrade. Keeping
track of servers known to support TLS (i.e., "pinning") enables
clients to detect downgrade attacks. For servers with no
connection history, clients may choose to refuse non-TLS DNS, or
they may continue without TLS, depending on their privacy
requirements.
4. This document does not propose new ideas to provide resistance to
known traffic analysis techniques. Even with encrypted messages,
a well-positioned party may be able to glean certain details from
an analysis of message timings and sizes.
5. This document does not propose new ideas for certificate
authentication for TLS in the context of DNS. Several external
methods are possible, although each has weaknesses. The current
Certificate Authority infrastructure [RFC5280] is used by HTTP/
TLS [RFC2818]. With many trusted CAs, this approach has
recognized weaknesses [CA_Compromise]. Some work is underway to
partially address these concerns (for example, with certificate
pinning [certificate_pinning], but more work is needed. DANE
[RFC6698] provides mechanisms to root certificate trust with
DNSSEC. That use here must be carefully evaluated to address
potential issues in trust recursion. For stub-to-recursive
resolver use, certificate authentication is sometimes either easy
or nearly impossible. If the recursive resolver is manually
configured, its certificate can be authenticated when it is
configured. If the recursive resolver is automatically
configured (such as with DHCP [RFC2131]), it could use DHCP
authentication mechanisms [RFC3118]).
Ongoing discussion and development of opportunistic TLS (connections
without CA validation, [RFC7435]) may be relevant to DNS-over-TLS.
8. Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Stephane Bortzmeyer, Brian Haberman,
Kim-Minh Kaplan, Bill Manning, George Michaelson, Eric Osterweil,
Glen Wiley, John Dickinson, Sara Dickinson, and Daniel Kahn Gillmor
for reviewing this Internet-draft, and Nikita Somaiya for early work
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on this idea.
Work by Zi Hu, Liang Zhu, and John Heidemann in this paper is
partially sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS)
Science and Technology Directorate, HSARPA, Cyber Security Division,
BAA 11-01-RIKA and Air Force Research Laboratory, Information
Directorate under agreement number FA8750-12-2-0344, and contract
number D08PC75599.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities",
STD 13, RFC 1034, November 1987.
[RFC1035] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC5077] Salowey, J., Zhou, H., Eronen, P., and H. Tschofenig,
"Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session Resumption without
Server-Side State", RFC 5077, January 2008.
[RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security
(TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008.
[RFC5966] Bellis, R., "DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation
Requirements", RFC 5966, August 2010.
[RFC6335] Cotton, M., Eggert, L., Touch, J., Westerlund, M., and S.
Cheshire, "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and
Transport Protocol Port Number Registry", BCP 165,
RFC 6335, August 2011.
[RFC6891] Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms
for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC 6891, April 2013.
9.2. Informative References
[CA_Compromise]
Infosec Island Admin, "CA Compromise", January 2012, <http
://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/
19782-Web-Authentication-A-Broken-Trust-with-No-Easy-
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Fix.html>.
[I-D.ietf-dnsop-5966bis]
Dickinson, J., Bellis, R., Mankin, A., and D. Wessels,
"DNS Transport over TCP - Implementation Requirements",
draft-ietf-dnsop-5966bis-01 (work in progress),
December 2014.
[I-D.ietf-dprive-problem-statement]
Bortzmeyer, S., "DNS privacy considerations",
draft-ietf-dprive-problem-statement-06 (work in progress),
October 2014.
[RFC1939] Myers, J. and M. Rose, "Post Office Protocol - Version 3",
STD 53, RFC 1939, May 1996.
[RFC2131] Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
RFC 2131, March 1997.
[RFC2595] Newman, C., "Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP",
RFC 2595, June 1999.
[RFC2818] Rescorla, E., "HTTP Over TLS", RFC 2818, May 2000.
[RFC3118] Droms, R. and W. Arbaugh, "Authentication for DHCP
Messages", RFC 3118, June 2001.
[RFC3207] Hoffman, P., "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over
Transport Layer Security", RFC 3207, February 2002.
[RFC3234] Carpenter, B. and S. Brim, "Middleboxes: Taxonomy and
Issues", RFC 3234, February 2002.
[RFC3501] Crispin, M., "INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION
4rev1", RFC 3501, March 2003.
[RFC4033] Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements",
RFC 4033, March 2005.
[RFC4892] Woolf, S. and D. Conrad, "Requirements for a Mechanism
Identifying a Name Server Instance", RFC 4892, June 2007.
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List
(CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, May 2008.
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[RFC6698] Hoffman, P. and J. Schlyter, "The DNS-Based Authentication
of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Protocol: TLSA", RFC 6698, August 2012.
[RFC7258] Farrell, S. and H. Tschofenig, "Pervasive Monitoring Is an
Attack", BCP 188, RFC 7258, May 2014.
[RFC7413] Cheng, Y., Chu, J., Radhakrishnan, S., and A. Jain, "TCP
Fast Open", RFC 7413, December 2014.
[RFC7435] Dukhovni, V., "Opportunistic Security: Some Protection
Most of the Time", RFC 7435, December 2014.
[certificate_pinning]
OWASP, "Certificate and Public Key Pinning", 2014, <https:
//www.owasp.org/index.php/
Certificate_and_Public_Key_Pinning>.
[dnssec-trigger]
NLnet Labs, "Dnssec-Trigger", May 2014,
<https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/dnssec-trigger/>.
[draft-dempsky-dnscurve]
Dempsky, M., "DNSCurve", draft-dempsky-dnscurve-01 (work
in progress), August 2010,
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dempsky-dnscurve-01>.
[draft-osterweil-dane-ipsec]
Osterweil, E., Wiley, G., Mitchell, D., and A. Newton,
"Opportunistic Encryption with DANE Semantics and IPsec:
IPSECA", draft-osterweil-dane-ipsec-00 (work in progress),
February 2014,
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-osterweil-dane-ipsec-00>.
[draft-tls-falsestart]
Moeller, B. and A. Langley, "Transport Layer Security
(TLS) False Start", draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-01 (work
in progress), November 2014, <http://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-01>.
[draft-wijngaards-confidentialdns]
Wijngaards, W., "Confidential DNS",
draft-wijngaards-dnsop-confidentialdns-03 (work in
progress), November 2013, <http://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-wijngaards-dnsop-confidentialdns-03>.
[draft-wouters-edns-tcp-keepalive]
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Wouters, P. and J. Abley, "The edns-tcp-keepalive EDNS0
Option", draft-wouters-edns-tcp-keepalive-00 (work in
progress), October 2013, <http://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-wouters-edns-tcp-keepalive-00>.
[tdns] Zhu, L., Hu, Z., Heidemann, J., Wessels, D., Mankin, A.,
and N. Somaiya, "T-DNS: Connection-Oriented DNS to Improve
Privacy and Security", Technical report ISI-TR-688,
February 2014, <Technical report, ISI-TR-688,
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/isi-pubs/tr-688.pdf>.
[unbound] NLnet Labs, Verisign labs, "Unbound", December 2013,
<http://unbound.net/>.
Authors' Addresses
Zi Hu
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1133
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA
Phone: +1 213 587-1057
Email: zihu@usc.edu
Liang Zhu
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1133
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA
Phone: +1 310 448-8323
Email: liangzhu@usc.edu
John Heidemann
USC/Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
USA
Phone: +1 310 822-1511
Email: johnh@isi.edu
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Allison Mankin
Verisign Labs
12061 Bluemont Way
Reston, VA 20190
Phone: +1 703 948-3200
Email: amankin@verisign.com
Duane Wessels
Verisign Labs
12061 Bluemont Way
Reston, VA 20190
Phone: +1 703 948-3200
Email: dwessels@verisign.com
Paul Hoffman
ICANN
Email: paul.hoffman@icann.org
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