Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-19 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jim Gettys wrote: Radio clock receivers often don't work where these devices are deployed (like in my basement). Not enough view of the sky (and multiple layers of floors). Radios are nice to have, but can't be guaranteed to work. No, the problem of radio clock is not its availability but

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-18 Thread Jim Gettys
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Glen Wiley glen.wi...@gmail.com wrote: This discussion highlights the importance of making sure that hardware vendors understand the need for working clocks that can be easily bootstrapped. In addition to NTP radio clock receivers are ubiquitous, tiny and

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-14 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dickson, Brian wrote: In order to subvert or redirect a delegation, the TLD operator (or registrar) would need to change the DNS server name/IP, and replace the DS record(s). Only to a victim to be deceived. This would be immediately evident to the domain owner, when they query the TLD

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-14 Thread SM
Hi Paul, At 08:17 12-09-2013, Paul Wouters wrote: the NSA's Key Recovery Service. Secondly, if the web site has all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qrlDGhoI1Q See above. But also, you can use various open resolvers. The Fedora Project even runs a few for dnssec-trigger that are accessable

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-14 Thread SM
Hi Tony, At 05:27 12-09-2013, Tony Finch wrote: But if you care about security you can - with useful effect - choose a registrar with better security processes, and you can use a registry lock to prevent other registrars from undermining that security. There is a well-known domain for a

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, SM wrote: See above. But also, you can use various open resolvers. The Fedora Project even runs a few for dnssec-trigger that are accessable only via TCP - I'm hoping more people will put up TCP-only open resolvers, especially with: RFC 5358 has a SHOULD NOT for open

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-13 Thread David Morris
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 8:17 PM, David Morris d...@xpasc.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 11/09/2013 09:59, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: ... My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-13 Thread Eliot Lear
Ted, What I like about this message is that you have demonstrated the *potential* severability of these issues. Things are set up as they are for a matter of scaling. Clearly it ain't perfect, and as one of my mentors would say, that represents an opportunity. It's also pretty clear that we

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Tony Finch
Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: 2. The current time is a matter of convention rather than a natural property. It is therefore impossible to determine the time without reference to at least one trusted party. Preferably more than one so you can use quorum agreement and minimize

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Theodore Ts'o wrote: More importantly, what problem do people think DNSSEC is going to solve? It is still a hierarchical model of trust. So at the top, if you don't trust Verisign for the .COM domain and PIR for the .ORG domain (and for people who are worried about the

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:10AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: Any co-ercing that happens has to be globally visible, if the target ensures he is using random nameservers to query for data. Not necessarily. First of all, an active attacker located close to the target can simply replace the

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: It is still a hierarchical model of trust. So at the top, if you don't trust Verisign for the .COM domain and PIR for the .ORG domain (and for people who are worried about the NSA, both of these are US corporations), the whole

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Any co-ercing that happens has to be globally visible, if the target ensures he is using random nameservers to query for data. Not necessarily. First of all, an active attacker located close to the target can simply replace the DNS replies with bogus

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:38:21PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I disagree. DNSSEC is not just DNS: its the only available, deployed, and (mostly) accessible global PKI currently in existence which also includes a constrained path of trust which follows already established business

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Sep 12, 2013, at 7:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: It is still a hierarchical model of trust. So at the top, if you don't trust Verisign for the .COM domain and PIR for the .ORG domain (and for people who are worried about the NSA, both of these are US corporations), the whole

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:46:01PM +, Ted Lemon wrote: The model for this sort of validation is really not on a per-client basis, but rather depends on routine cross-validation by various DNSSEC operators throughout the network. This will not necessarily catch a really focused attack,

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: Still, I agree with the general precept that perfect should not enemy of the better, and DNSSEC certainly adds value. I just get worried about people who seem to think that DNSSEC is a panacea. Me too. It most certainly is not.

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: It would work just fine if the attacker did not mind if the surveillance was detected or actually wanted people to know they were being watched to intimidate them. Yup,neither PKI nor DNSSEC address that threat model.

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread robert bownes
Chiming in a bit late here, however, the availability of stratum 1 clocks and stratum 2 class time data on non IP and/or non interconnected networks is now so large, I question why one would run NTP outside of the building in many cases, certainly in an enterprise of any size. A 1pulse per second

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:46:01PM +, Ted Lemon wrote: The model for this sort of validation is really not on a per-client basis, but rather depends on routine cross-validation by various DNSSEC operators throughout

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Dickson, Brian
On 9/12/13 7:24 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 03:38:21PM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I disagree. DNSSEC is not just DNS: its the only available, deployed, and (mostly) accessible global PKI currently in existence which also includes a constrained

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu wrote: Finally, if you think the target can try to find random caching nameservers all across the networ to use, (a) there are certain environments where this is not allowed --- some ISP's or hotel/coffee shop/airline's networks require

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Dickson, Brian
On 9/12/13 2:07 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dickson, Brian bdick...@verisign.com wrote: In order to subvert or redirect a delegation, the TLD operator (or registrar) would need to change the DNS server name/IP, and replace the DS record(s). Someone

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dickson, Brian bdick...@verisign.com wrote: In order to subvert or redirect a delegation, the TLD operator (or registrar) would need to change the DNS server name/IP, and replace the DS

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 3:16 PM, Dickson, Brian bdick...@verisign.com wrote: Excluding the direct methods of acquisition, let us consider the level of effort involved in recreating the root key, by brute force. I think we can assume that they would use some fairly subtle attack to get the key, and

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 12, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Dickson, Brian bdick...@verisign.com wrote: In order to subvert or redirect a delegation, the TLD operator (or registrar) would need to change the DNS server name/IP, and replace the DS record(s). Someone who possesses the root key could in principle create a fake

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Masataka Ohta
Ted Lemon wrote: This isn't _quite_ true. DNSSEC supports trust anchors at any point in the hierarchy, and indeed I think the right model for DNSSEC is that you would install trust anchors for things you really care about, and manage them in the same way that you manage your root trust

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-12 Thread Masataka Ohta
robert bownes wrote: A 1pulse per second aligned to GPS is good to a few ns. Fairly straightforward to plug into even a OpenWrt type of router. Turn on the pps in NTP on the router and you are good to go. Faking GPS signal is trivially easy. Iraq successfully captured US unmanned plain,

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread David Morris
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 11/09/2013 09:59, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: ... My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in non-validating mode wait for NTP to fix time, then check if the link

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
On Sep 10, 2013, at 8:17 PM, David Morris d...@xpasc.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 11/09/2013 09:59, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: ... My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Evan Hunt e...@isc.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:59:52PM -0400, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in non-validating mode wait for NTP to fix time,

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Sep 11, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: The DNS is the naming infrastructure of the Internet. While it is in theory possible to use the DNS to advertise very rapid changes to Internet infrastructure, the practice is that the Internet infrastructure will

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Paul Wouters p...@nohats.ca wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Joe Abley wrote: 1. We only need to know the current time to an accuracy of 1 hour. [RRSIG expiration times are specified with a granularity of a second, right? I appreciate that most people are

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Joe Abley wrote: 1. We only need to know the current time to an accuracy of 1 hour. [RRSIG expiration times are specified with a granularity of a second, right? I appreciate that most people are generous with signature inception and expiration times in order to

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Nicholas Weaver nwea...@icsi.berkeley.edu wrote: On Sep 11, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: The DNS is the naming infrastructure of the Internet. While it is in theory possible to use the DNS to advertise very rapid changes

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Nicholas Weaver
On Sep 11, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: I disagree. DNSSEC is not just DNS: its the only available, deployed, and (mostly) accessible global PKI currently in existence which also includes a constrained path of trust which follows already established

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-11, at 11:43, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: OK lets consider the trust requirements here. 1. We only need to know the current time to an accuracy of 1 hour. [RRSIG expiration times are specified with a granularity of a second, right? I appreciate that most people

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: I think you can avoid that issue by having the device not pass traffic until the DNSSEC validation is enabled. Only the device needs the special permissive handling for this to work. You mean only allow NTP and DNS traffic in the beginning, until

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
OK lets consider the trust requirements here. 1. We only need to know the current time to an accuracy of 1 hour. 2. The current time is a matter of convention rather than a natural property. It is therefore impossible to determine the time without reference to at least one trusted party. 2a) A

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-09-10, at 17:59, Olafur Gudmundsson o...@ogud.com wrote: [cc'ed to a more approriate IETF wg] ... and I'll gratuitously mention draft-jabley-dnsop-validator-bootstrap here too, since it addresses exactly this topic. Joe ___ DNSOP mailing

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/09/2013 09:59, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: ... My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in non-validating mode wait for NTP to fix time, then check if the link allows DNSSEC answers through, at which point you can

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Evan Hunt
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:59:52PM -0400, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in non-validating mode wait for NTP to fix time, then check if the link allows DNSSEC answers through, at which

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: So how do you get the time after you power on the device? The usual answer is use ntp. Except you can't do a DNS resolve when your time is incorrect. You have a chicken and egg problem to resolve/hack around :-(. It is one reason why DNSSEC does not worth

Re: [DNSOP] Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
[cc'ed to a more approriate IETF wg] On Sep 10, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Jim Gettys j...@freedesktop.org wrote: Ted T'so referred to a conversation we had last week. Let me give the background. Dave Taht has been doing an advanced version of OpenWrt for our bufferbloat work (called CeroWrt