> On Jul 3, 2015, at 12:28 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-d...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:29:45PM +0300, Yoav Nir wrote:
> 
>>> The hard part is the transport-mode use-case.
>> 
>> If the SPD entries are specific and pre-configured, the same reasoning as
>> for VPNs applies. Things change if you want the SPD and PAD to be dynamic,
>> such as reading them from DNS.
> 
> Dynamic.
> 
>> There is RFC 4025 with the IPSECKEY record. So when the application performs
>> a DNS lookup for www.example.com, the OS could also ask for an IPSECKEY
>> record and get both public key and a gateway address. If we set the gateway
>> address to be equal to the server address, this is the transport-mode
>> use-case. Again, this all begins with the DNS name, so mallory cannot do
>> anything.
> 
> Mallory can often trigger DNS lookups for her own domain, which
> can return IP addresses that collide with Alice's domain.  How
> is that handled?

RFC 4025 and Wikipedia suggest mapping the IPSECKEY record to the address 
through reverse DNS. I don’t know in what percentage of the Internet that would 
work.

Yoav
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