

IPSECKEY WG                                                M. Richardson
Internet-Draft                                                       SSW
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           A Method for Storing IPsec Keying Material in DNS
                     draft-ietf-ipseckey-rr-10.txt

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Abstract

   This document describes a new resource record for the Domain Name
   System (DNS). This record may be used to store public keys for use in
   IP security (IPsec) systems. The record also includes provisions for
   indicating what system should be contacted when establishing an IPsec
   tunnel with the entity in question.

   This record replaces the functionality of the sub-type #1 of the KEY
   Resource Record, which has been obsoleted by RFC3445.








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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   1.2 Use of DNS address-to-name maps (IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA)  .  3
   1.3 Usage Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.  Storage formats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.1 IPSECKEY RDATA format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.2 RDATA format - precedence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.3 RDATA format - gateway type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   2.4 RDATA format - algorithm type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.5 RDATA format - gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.6 RDATA format - public keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   3.  Presentation formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   3.1 Representation of IPSECKEY RRs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   3.2 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   4.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   4.1 Active attacks against unsecured IPSECKEY resource records . . 10
   5.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.  Intellectual Property Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
       Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
       Non-normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 17


























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1. Introduction

   Suppose we have a host which wishes to establish an IPsec tunnel with
   some remote entity on the network.  In many cases this end system
   will only know a DNS name for the remote entity (whether that DNS
   name be the name of the remote node, a DNS reverse tree name
   corresponding to the IP address of the remote node, or perhaps a the
   domain name portion of a "user@FQDN" name for a remote entity).  In
   these cases the host will need to obtain a public key in order to
   authenticate the remote entity, and may also need some guidance about
   whether it should contact the entity directly or use another node as
   a gateway to the target entity.

   The IPSECKEY RR provides a storage mechanism for such data as the
   public key and the gateway information.

   The type number for the IPSECKEY RR is TBD.

1.1 Overview

   The IPSECKEY resource record (RR) is used to publish a public key
   that is to be associated with a Domain Name System (DNS) name for use
   with the IPsec protocol suite.  This can be the  public key of a
   host, network, or application (in the case of per-port keying).

   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 RFC2119 [7].

1.2 Use of DNS address-to-name maps (IN-ADDR.ARPA and IP6.ARPA)

   Often a security gateway will only have access to the IP address of
   the node with which communication is desired, and will not know any
   other name for the target node.  Because of this, it will frequently
   be the case that the best way of looking up IPSECKEY RRs will be by
   using the IP address as an index into one of the reverse mapping
   trees (IN-ADDR.ARPA for IPv4 or IP6.ARPA for IPv6).

   The lookup is done in the usual fashion as for PTR records. The IP
   address' octets (IPv4) or nibbles (IPv6) are reversed and looked up
   with the appropriate suffix. Any CNAMEs or DNAMEs found MUST be
   followed.

   Note: even when the IPsec function is the end-host, often only the
   application will know the forward name used. While the case where the
   application knows the forward name is common, the user could easily
   have typed in a literal IP address. This storage mechanism does not
   preclude using the forward name when it is available, but does not



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   require it.

1.3 Usage Criteria

   An IPSECKEY resource record SHOULD be used in combination with DNSSEC
   unless some other means of authenticating the IPSECKEY resource
   record is available.

   It is expected that there will often be multiple IPSECKEY resource
   records at the same name. This will be due to the presence of
   multiple gateways and the need to rollover keys.

   This resource record is class independent.






































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2. Storage formats

2.1 IPSECKEY RDATA format

   The RDATA for an IPSECKEY RR consists of a precedence value, a
   gateway type, a public key, algorithm type, and an optional gateway
   address.

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |  precedence   | gateway type  |  algorithm  |     gateway     |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-------------+                 +
      ~                            gateway                            ~
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               /
      /                          public key                           /
      /                                                               /
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|


2.2 RDATA format - precedence

   This is an 8-bit precedence for this record. This is interpreted in
   the same way as the PREFERENCE field described in section 3.3.9 of
   RFC1035 [2].

   Gateways listed in IPSECKEY records with  lower precedence are to be
   attempted first. Where there is a tie in precedence, the order should
   be non-deterministic.

2.3 RDATA format - gateway type

   The gateway type field indicates the format of the information that
   is stored in the gateway field.

   The following values are defined:

   0  No gateway is present

   1  A 4-byte IPv4 address is present

   2  A 16-byte IPv6 address is present

   3  A wire-encoded domain name is present. The wire-encoded format is
      self-describing, so the length is implicit. The domain name MUST
      NOT be compressed. (see section 3.3 of RFC1035 [2]).




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2.4 RDATA format - algorithm type

   The algorithm type field identifies the public key's cryptographic
   algorithm and determines the format of the public key field.

   A value of 0 indicates that no key is present.

   The following values are defined:

   1  A DSA key is present, in the format defined in RFC2536 [10]

   2  A RSA key is present, in the format defined in RFC3110 [11]


2.5 RDATA format - gateway

   The gateway field indicates a gateway to which an IPsec tunnel may be
   created in order to reach the entity named by this resource record.

   There are three formats:

   A 32-bit IPv4 address is present in the gateway field. The data
   portion is an IPv4 address as described in section 3.4.1 of RFC1035
   [2].  This is a 32-bit number in network byte order.

   A 128-bit IPv6 address is present in the gateway field. The data
   portion is an IPv6 address as described in section 2.2 of RFC3596
   [13]. This is a 128-bit number in network byte order.

   The gateway field is a normal wire-encoded domain name, as described
   in section 3.3 of RFC1035 [2]. Compression MUST NOT be used.

2.6 RDATA format - public keys

   Both of the public key types defined in this document (RSA and DSA)
   inherit their public key formats from the corresponding KEY RR
   formats. Specifically, the public key field contains the
   algorithm-specific portion of the KEY RR RDATA, which is all of the
   KEY RR DATA after the first four octets.  This is the same portion of
   the KEY RR that must be specified by documents that define a DNSSEC
   algorithm. Those documents also specify a message digest to be used
   for generation of SIG RRs; that specification is not relevant for
   IPSECKEY RR.

   Future algorithms, if they are to be used by both DNSSEC (in the KEY
   RR) and IPSECKEY, are likely to use the same public key encodings in
   both records.  Unless otherwise specified, the IPSECKEY public key
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   for the corresponding algorithm.  The algorithm must still be
   designated for use by IPSECKEY, and an IPSECKEY algorithm type number
   (which might be different than the DNSSEC algorithm number) must be
   assigned to it.

   The DSA key format is defined in RFC2536 [10]

   The RSA key format is defined in RFC3110 [11], with the following
   changes:

   The earlier definition of RSA/MD5 in RFC2065 limited the exponent and
   modulus to 2552 bits in length.  RFC3110 extended that limit to 4096
   bits for RSA/SHA1 keys.  The IPSECKEY RR imposes no length limit on
   RSA public keys, other than the 65535 octet limit imposed by the
   two-octet length encoding.  This length extension is applicable only
   to IPSECKEY and not to KEY RRs.



































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3. Presentation formats

3.1 Representation of IPSECKEY RRs

   IPSECKEY RRs may appear in a zone data master file. The precedence,
   gateway type and algorithm and gateway fields are REQUIRED. The
   base64 encoded public key block is OPTIONAL; if not present, then the
   public key field of the resource record MUST be construed as being
   zero octets in length.

   The algorithm field is an unsigned integer. No mnemonics are defined.

   If no gateway is to be indicated, then the gateway type field MUST be
   zero, and the gateway field MUST be "."

   The Public Key field is represented as a Base64 encoding of the
   Public Key.  Whitespace is allowed within the Base64 text.  For a
   definition of Base64 encoding, see RFC3548 [6] Section 5.2.

   The general presentation for the record as as follows:

   IN     IPSECKEY ( precedence gateway-type algorithm
                     gateway base64-encoded-public-key )


3.2 Examples

   An example of a node 192.0.2.38 that will accept IPsec tunnels on its
   own behalf.

   38.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN     IPSECKEY ( 10 1 2
                    192.0.2.38
                    AQNRU3mG7TVTO2BkR47usntb102uFJtugbo6BSGvgqt4AQ== )

   An example of a node, 192.0.2.38 that has published its key only.

   38.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN     IPSECKEY ( 10 0 2
                    .
                    AQNRU3mG7TVTO2BkR47usntb102uFJtugbo6BSGvgqt4AQ== )

   An example of a node, 192.0.2.38 that has delegated authority to the
   node 192.0.2.3.

   38.2.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN     IPSECKEY ( 10 1 2
                    192.0.2.3
                    AQNRU3mG7TVTO2BkR47usntb102uFJtugbo6BSGvgqt4AQ== )

   An example of a node, 192.0.1.38 that has delegated authority to the



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   node with the identity "mygateway.example.com".

   38.1.0.192.in-addr.arpa. 7200 IN     IPSECKEY ( 10 3 2
                    mygateway.example.com.
                    AQNRU3mG7TVTO2BkR47usntb102uFJtugbo6BSGvgqt4AQ== )

   An example of a node, 2001:0DB8:0200:1:210:f3ff:fe03:4d0 that has
   delegated authority to the node 2001:0DB8:c000:0200:2::1

   $ORIGIN 1.0.0.0.0.0.2.8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa.
   0.d.4.0.3.0.e.f.f.f.3.f.0.1.2.0 7200 IN     IPSECKEY ( 10 2 2
                    2001:0DB8:0:8002::2000:1
                    AQNRU3mG7TVTO2BkR47usntb102uFJtugbo6BSGvgqt4AQ== )






































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4. Security Considerations

   This entire memo pertains to the provision of public keying material
   for use by key management protocols such as ISAKMP/IKE (RFC2407) [8].

   The IPSECKEY resource record contains information that SHOULD be
   communicated to the end client in an integral fashion - i.e. free
   from modification. The form of this channel is up to the consumer of
   the data - there must be a trust relationship between the end
   consumer of this resource record and the server. This relationship
   may be end-to-end DNSSEC validation, a TSIG or SIG(0) channel to
   another secure source, a secure local channel on the host, or some
   combination of the above.

   The keying material provided by the IPSECKEY resource record is not
   sensitive to passive attacks. The keying material may be freely
   disclosed to any party without any impact on the security properties
   of the resulting IPsec session: IPsec and IKE provide for defense
   against both active and passive attacks.

   Any derivative specification that makes use of this resource record
   MUST carefully document their trust model, and why the trust model of
   DNSSEC is appropriate, if that is the secure channel used.

4.1 Active attacks against unsecured IPSECKEY resource records

   This section deals with active attacks against the DNS. These attacks
   require that DNS requests and responses be intercepted and changed.
   DNSSEC is designed to defend against attacks of this kind.

   The first kind of active attack is when the attacker replaces the
   keying material with either a key under its control or with garbage.

   If the attacker is not able to mount a subsequent man-in-the-middle
   attack on the IKE negotiation after replacing the public key, then
   this will result in a denial of service, as the authenticator used by
   IKE would fail.

   If the attacker is able to both to mount active attacks against DNS
   and is also in a position to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on
   IKE and IPsec negotiations, then the attacker will be in a position
   to compromise the resulting IPsec channel. Note that an attacker must
   be able to perform active DNS attacks on both sides of the IKE
   negotiation in order for this to succeed.

   The second kind of active attack is one in which the attacker
   replaces the the gateway address to point to a node under the
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   key or remove it, thus providing an IPSECKEY record of its own to
   match the gateway address.

   This later form creates a simple man-in-the-middle since the attacker
   can then create a second tunnel to the real destination. Note that,
   as before, this requires that the attacker also mount an active
   attack against the responder.

   Note that the man-in-the-middle can not just forward cleartext
   packets to the original destination. While the destination may be
   willing to speak in the clear, replying to the original sender, the
   sender will have already created a policy expecting ciphertext. Thus,
   the attacker will need to intercept traffic from both sides. In some
   cases, the attacker may be able to accomplish the full intercept by
   use of Network Addresss/Port Translation (NAT/NAPT) technology.

   Note that risk of a man-in-the-middle attack mediated by the IPSECKEY
   RR only applies to cases where the gateway field of the IPSECKEY RR
   indicates a different entity than the owner name of the IPSECKEY RR.

   An active attack on the DNS that caused the wrong IP address to be
   retrieved (via forged address), and therefore the wrong QNAME to be
   queried would also result in a man-in-the-middle attack. This
   situation exists independantly of whether or not the IPSECKEY RR is
   used.

   In cases where the end-to-end integrity of the IPSECKEY RR is
   suspect, the end client MUST restrict its use of the IPSECKEY RR to
   cases where the RR owner name matches the content of the gateway
   field.





















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5. IANA Considerations

   This document updates the IANA Registry for DNS Resource Record Types
   by assigning type X to the IPSECKEY record.

   This document creates two new IANA registries, both specific to the
   IPSECKEY Resource Record:

   This document creates an IANA registry for the algorithm type field.

   Values 0, 1 and 2 are defined in Section 2.4. Algorithm numbers 3
   through 255 can be assigned by IETF Consensus (see RFC2434 [5]).

   This document creates an IANA registry for the gateway type field.

   Values 0, 1, 2 and 3 are defined in Section 2.3. Gateway type numbers
   4 through 255 can be assigned by Standards Action (see RFC2434 [5]).


































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6. Intellectual Property Claims

   The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any
   intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to
   pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in
   this document or the extent to which any license under such rights
   might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it
   has made any effort to identify any such rights.  Information on the
   IETF's procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and
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   The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any
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   this standard.  Please address the information to the IETF Executive
   Director.






























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7. Acknowledgments

   My thanks to Paul Hoffman, Sam Weiler, Jean-Jacques Puig, Rob
   Austein, and Olafur Gurmundsson who reviewed this document carefully.
   Additional thanks to Olafur Gurmundsson for a reference
   implementation.













































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Normative references

   [1]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities", STD
        13, RFC 1034, November 1987.

   [2]  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
        specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987.

   [3]  Bradner, S., "The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3", BCP
        9, RFC 2026, October 1996.

   [4]  Eastlake, D. and C. Kaufman, "Domain Name System Security
        Extensions", RFC 2065, January 1997.

   [5]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an IANA
        Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 2434, October 1998.

   [6]  Josefsson, S., "The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings",
        RFC 3548, July 2003.
































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Non-normative references

   [7]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
         Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [8]   Piper, D., "The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation
         for ISAKMP", RFC 2407, November 1998.

   [9]   Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System Security Extensions", RFC
         2535, March 1999.

   [10]  Eastlake, D., "DSA KEYs and SIGs in the Domain Name System
         (DNS)", RFC 2536, March 1999.

   [11]  Eastlake, D., "RSA/SHA-1 SIGs and RSA KEYs in the Domain Name
         System (DNS)", RFC 3110, May 2001.

   [12]  Massey, D. and S. Rose, "Limiting the Scope of the KEY Resource
         Record (RR)", RFC 3445, December 2002.

   [13]  Thomson, S., Huitema, C., Ksinant, V. and M. Souissi, "DNS
         Extensions to Support IP Version 6", RFC 3596, October 2003.


Author's Address

   Michael C. Richardson
   Sandelman Software Works
   470 Dawson Avenue
   Ottawa, ON  K1Z 5V7
   CA

   EMail: mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca
   URI:   http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/

















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