Network Working Group R. Arends Internet-Draft Nominum, Inc. Expires: May 2, 2002 M. Kosters D. Blacka Verisign, Inc. November 1, 2001 DNSSEC Opt-In draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-opt-in-01 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on May 2, 2002. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. Abstract RFC 2535 defines a secure zone as completely signed. There are cases where there is no need, it is not practical, or simply not possible to maintain a completely signed zone. To allow administrators to gradually adopt DNSSEC, a model, "Opt-In", is proposed that generalizes the inclusion of unsigned records within a secure zone. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 1] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 Table of Contents 1. Definitions and Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Protocol Additions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A. Implementing Opt-In using "Views" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 2] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 1. Definitions and Terminology Throughout this document, familiarity with the DNS system, RFC 1035 [1], DNS security extensions, RFC 2535 [4], and DNSSEC terminology RFC 3090 [5] is assumed. The following abbreviations and terms are used in this document: RR: is used to refer to a DNS resource record. RRset: refers to a Resource Record Set, as defined by [3]. Delegation RRset: refers to a RRset of type NS that forms a zone cut. That is, any NS RRsets except those residing at the zone apex. node: describes the set all RRsets for a single owner name. In other words, all records in the zone with the same name (but possibly differing types). secure node: refers to a node where all RRsets within the node are signed, minus delegation RRsets. All signed nodes contain a single NXT record. insecure node: refers to a node where none of the RRsets within the node are signed. name: refers to the owner name of a node. The key words "MUST, "MUST NO", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY, and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2]. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 3] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 2. Overview In order to ease deployment of DNSSEC, it is desirable to have a mechanism that generally allows for unsigned records to exist within an otherwise secure zone. In the current definition of DNSSEC, RFC 2535 [4], there are already two types of unsigned RRsets: delegation point NS RRsets and glue RRsets. This document proposes a model, Opt-In, that generalizes the capability to have unsigned records within a secure zone. This is accomplished by extending the semantics of the NXT record using a redundant bit in the type bit map. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 4] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 3. Protocol Additions In RFC 2535, a secured zone consists of a series of secured nodes, where each node contains a signed NXT RR. The (non)existence of a node is proven using the intervals defined by the NXT RR's owner names and next values. The (non)existence of a RRset within a node is proven using the type bit map in the NXT RR. Opt-In expands this definition by allowing insecure nodes to be interleaved between secure nodes. Since this represents a change of the interpretation of NXT records, resolvers must be able to distinguish between RFC 2535 NXT records and Opt-In NXT records. This is accomplished by tagging the NXT records that span (or potentially span) insecure nodes. This tag is indicated by the absence of the NXT bit in the type bit map. Since the NXT bit in the type map merely indicates the existence of the record itself, this bit is redundant and open for use as a tag. Using Opt-In, the existence or non-existence of insecure nodes is not asserted by the tagged NXT records. This allows for the addition or removal of insecure RRsets without recalculating and resigning the NXT chain. However, Opt-In NXT records still assert the (non)existence of secure nodes, and the existence of individual RRsets within the secure nodes. Zones using Opt-In MAY contain a mixture of Opt-In tagged NXT records and RFC 2535 NXT records. At each secure node, the NXT record within that node MUST either be RFC 2535 or Opt-In compliant. If it is not Opt-In, there MUST NOT be any insecure nodes between it and the next node. In summary, o An Opt-In NXT type is identified by a zero-valued (or not- specified) NXT bit in the type bit map of the NXT record. o A RFC2535 NXT type is identified by a one-valued NXT bit in the type bit map of the NXT record. and o In RFC 2535, NXT records indicate the existence or non-existence of all nodes in the zone. o In Opt-In, tagged NXT records indicate the existence or non- existence of all SECURE nodes in the zone. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 5] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 4. Benefits Using Opt-In allows administrators of large or rapidly changing zones to minimize the overhead involved in maintaining the security of the zone. One particular way that Opt-In accomplishes this is by eliminating the need for "no-key" KEY records for insecure subzone delegations. In RFC 2535, insecure delegations are required to have an associated signed "no-key" KEY RR. Instead, under Opt-In, insecure subzone delegation records are stored in insecure nodes. For large, delegation-centric zones (like TLDs) this can lead to substantial reductions in overhead. In addition, because the NXT chain for the zone does not have to be changed when adding or removing insecure RRs, zones that may be constantly adding and/or removing RRs can do so without incurring the overhead associated with modifying and resigning the NXT chain. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 6] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 5. Examples Consider the zone EXAMPLE, shown below. This is a zone where all of the NXT records are tagged as Opt-In. It consists of 5 nodes: 3 secure nodes (EXAMPLE., FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE., and SECOND- SECURE.EXAMPLE.) and 2 insecure nodes (NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE., and UNSIGNED.EXAMPLE.). Example A: Fully Opt-In Zone. EXAMPLE. SOA ... EXAMPLE. SIG SOA ... EXAMPLE. NS FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. EXAMPLE. SIG NS ... EXAMPLE. KEY ... EXAMPLE. SIG KEY ... EXAMPLE. NXT FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SOA NS SIG KEY EXAMPLE. SIG NXT ... FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A ... FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG A ... FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NXT SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A SIG FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG NXT ... NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NS NS.NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NS.NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A ... SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NS NS.ELSEWHERE. SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. KEY ... SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG KEY ... SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NXT EXAMPLE. NS SIG KEY SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG NXT ... UNSIGNED.EXAMPLE. MX ... In this example, a query for a signed RRset (e.g., "FIRST- SECURE.EXAMPLE A"), or a secure delegation ("WWW.SECOND- SECURE.EXAMPLE A") will result in a standard RFC 2535 response. A query for a nonexistent RRset will result in a response that differs from RFC 2535 only in the fact that the NXT record will be tagged as Opt-In. A query for an insecure RR will return both the answer (in the Answer or Authority section, as appropriate) and the corresponding Opt-In NXT record to prove that it is not secure. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 7] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 Example A.1: Response to query for UNSECURE.EXAMPLE. MX RCODE=NOERROR Answer Section: UNSECURE.EXAMPLE. MX ... Authority Section: SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NXT EXAMPLE. NS SIG KEY SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG NXT ... Additional Section: EXAMPLE. KEY ... EXAMPLE. SIG KEY ... Similarly, a query for an RR that is delegated to an insecure subzone will return both the referral and the corresponding Opt-In NXT record to prove that it is not secure. Example A.2: Response to query for WWW.NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A RCODE=NOERROR Authority Section: NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NS NS.NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. NXT SECOND-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A SIG FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SIG NXT ... Additional Section: NS.NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE. A ... EXAMPLE. KEY ... EXAMPLE. SIG KEY ... In Example A, the EXAMPLE. node MAY use either style of NXT record, because there are no insecure nodes that occur between it and the next node, FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. In other words, Example A would still be a valid zone if the NXT record for EXAMPLE. was changed to the following RR: EXAMPLE. NXT FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. SOA NS SIG KEY NXT However, the other secure nodes (FIRST-SECURE.EXAMPLE. and SECOND- SECURE.EXAMPLE.) MUST use Opt-In NXT records, because there are insecure nodes in the range they define. (NOT-SECURE.EXAMPLE and UNSECURE.EXAMPLE, respectively). Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 8] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 6. Security Considerations Opt-In allows for unsigned names. All unsigned names are insecure, and their validity can not be cryptographically proven. With Opt-In, a malicious entity is able to insert, modify or delete unsigned names in a secured zone. Thus, it is recommended to use RFC 2535 [4] where possible and to use Opt-In where necessary. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 9] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 7. IANA Considerations None. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 10] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 8. Acknowledgments The contributions, suggestions and remarks of the following persons (in alphabetic order) to this draft are acknowledged: Mats Dufberg, Miek Gieben, Olafur Gudmundsson, Bob Halley, Olaf Kolkman, Ted Lindgreen, Bill Manning, Dan Massey, Scott Rose, Mike Schiraldi, Jakob Schlyter, Brian Wellington. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 11] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 References [1] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, November 1987. [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [3] Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS Specification", RFC 2181, July 1997. [4] Eastlake, D., "Domain Name System Security Extensions", RFC 2535, March 1999. [5] Lewis, E., "DNS Security Extension Clarification on Zone Status", RFC 3090, March 2001. [6] R. Conrad, D., "Indicating Resolver Support of DNSSEC", draft- ietf-dnsext-dnssec-okbit-03 (work in progress), October 2001. Authors' Addresses Roy Arends Nominum, Inc. 950 Charter Street Redwood City, CA 94063 US Phone: +1 650 381 6000 EMail: Roy.Arends@nominum.com URI: http://www.nominum.com Mark Kosters Verisign, Inc. 21355 Ridgetop Circle Dulles, VA 20166 US Phone: +1 703 948 3200 EMail: markk@verisign.com URI: http://www.verisignlabs.com Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 12] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 David Blacka Verisign, Inc. 21355 Ridgetop Circle Dulles, VA 20166 US Phone: +1 703 948 3200 EMail: davidb@verisign.com URI: http://www.verisignlabs.com Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 13] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 Appendix A. Implementing Opt-In using "Views" In many cases, it may be convenient to implement an opt-in zone by combining two separately maintained "views" of a zone at request time. In this context, "view" refers to a particular version of a zone, not to any specific DNS implementation feature. In this scenario, one view is the secure view, the other is the insecure (or legacy) view. The secure view consists of an entirely signed zone using opt-in tagged NXT records. The insecure view contains no DNSSEC information. It is helpful, although not necessary, for the secure view to be a subset (minus DNSSEC records) of the insecure view. In addition, the secure view must contain entire nodes. That is, if any of the RRsets with a given name are signed in the combined opt-in zone, all RRsets must be signed (and thus in the secure view). These two views may be combined at request time to provide a virtual, single opt-in zone. The following algorithm is used when responding to each query: V_A is the secure view as described above. V_B is the insecure view as described above. R_A is a response generated from V_A, following RFC 2535 [4]. R_B is a response generated from V_B, following DNS resolution as per RFC 1035 [1]. R_C is the response generated by combining R_A with R_B, as described below. A query is DNSSEC-aware if it either has the DO bit [6] turned on, or is for a DNSSEC-specific record type. 1. If V_A is a subset of V_B and the query is not DNSSEC-aware, generate and return R_B, otherwise 2. Generate R_A. 3. If R_A's RCODE != NXDOMAIN, return R_A, otherwise 4. Generate R_B and combine it with R_A to form R_C: Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 14] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 For each section (ANSWER, AUTHORITY, ADDITIONAL), copy the records from R_A into R_B, EXCEPT the AUTHORITY section SOA record, if R_B's RCODE = NOERROR. 5. Return R_C. Arends, et al. Expires May 2, 2002 [Page 15] Internet-Draft DNSSEC Opt-In November 2001 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. 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