NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-19 Thread Alain Durand
The NGtrans/DNSext chairs would like to make a call for participation in the upcoming joint meeting. The goal of the meeting is to facilitate consensus on how IPv6 addresses are represented in DNS and related issues. This meeting requires extensive homework by participants and the chairs would li

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-22 Thread Matt Crawford
> ``Administrators normally insist on being able to change their records > with at most a few days notice,'' my web page says, as a starting point > for analyzing the expiration-date security issues. Yes, it does indeed say that. It has to say it, because imposing that ad-hoc restriction is nece

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-22 Thread Matt Crawford
> Matt Crawford writes: > > So if it's all right for your > > interface ID and/or subnet information to persist for a month, but > > you want to be able to change your global prefix(es) on a day's > > notice, you get a 30-to-1 work savings on almost all of your RRsets. > > No. Under your one-mont

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-19 Thread D. J. Bernstein
1. I won't be at the meeting. However, I strongly support elimination of A6/DNAME: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/killa6.html 2. There's a common error in the evaluation of DNSSEC signing costs. I'd like to draw attention to a new section that I've added to my web page to analyze this error: http://cr.yp

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Matt Crawford writes: > So if it's all right for your > interface ID and/or subnet information to persist for a month, but > you want to be able to change your global prefix(es) on a day's > notice, you get a 30-to-1 work savings on almost all of your RRsets. No. Under your one-month assumption,

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread Randy Bush
alain, you have a bug in your mail system. somehow the line which said that rob austien's draft will be used as the agenda driver got dropped. you may want to try to send the agreed message again. randy IETF IPng Working Grou

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Crawford
> 2. There's a common error in the evaluation of DNSSEC signing costs. I'd > like to draw attention to a new section that I've added to my web page > to analyze this error: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/killa6.html#signingcosts Your reasoning is markedly incorrect if applied to A6. If we take site renu

Update, NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread Alain Durand
Correction on the previous announcement: The NGtrans/DNSext chairs would like to make a call for participation in the upcoming joint meeting. The goal of the meeting is to facilitate consensus on how IPv6 addresses are represented in DNS and related issues. This meeting requires extensive homewo

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-23 Thread Matt Crawford
> The NGtrans/DNSext chairs would like to make a call for participation > in the upcoming joint meeting. > ... > Anybody wishing to make a presentation should send a draft > to the chairs of this meeting before July 26th 2001, 21:00 UTC > (that is, 2pm PDT, 5pm EDT, 11pm MEST) > - Alain Duran

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-24 Thread Andreas Gustafsson
Matt Crawford writes: > I offer > http://home.fnal.gov/~crawdad/draft-ietf-dnsext-ipv6-dns-response-00.txt I would like to comment on section 1.3: > 1.3. DNSSEC - Aggravation or Amelioration? > > An extreme case of A6 deployment (some might say a nightmare case), > in the A6 record

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-29 Thread D. J. Bernstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Pre change: > example.com SIG KEY expire=200107292257 (1 day) > host.example.com SIG A expire=200108272257 (30 days) > Post change: > example.com SIG KEY expire=200107072258 (1 day) > host.example.com SIG A expire=200108272258 (30 day

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-23 Thread David Terrell
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:41:13AM -0700, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > Of course, the other serious problem with your argument is that your > one-month assumption is wrong. It is _not_ acceptable for information to > persist for a month. I addressed this in my previous message, and in my > ``Extremely

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread itojun
>> 2. There's a common error in the evaluation of DNSSEC signing costs. I'd >> like to draw attention to a new section that I've added to my web page >> to analyze this error: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/killa6.html#signingcosts >Your reasoning is markedly incorrect if applied to A6. If we take >site

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-29 Thread Mark . Andrews
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Pre change: > > example.com SIG KEY expire=200107292257 (1 day) > > host.example.com SIG A expire=200108272257 (30 days) > > Post change: > > example.com SIG KEY expire=200107072258 (1 day) > > host.example.com SIG A expire=200108272258 (30

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread Matt Crawford
> >Your reasoning is markedly incorrect if applied to A6. If we take > >site renumbering to be the dominant factor controlling > >signature-validity times, then the signatures on the A6 records > > from what I got from reading djb's webpage, djb's point is that > the dominant factor

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:28:32 -0700 From:"D. J. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Crawford wants your signatures today to last for a month. I doubt that Matt cares how long anyone's, but his own, signatures last. | What happens

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-27 Thread D. J. Bernstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > there is no requirement to re-sign every record to achieve > your 1 day expiry. Just change the zone key whenever you change > zone data and have a 1 day expiry on the zone key's signature. No. If you maintain the validity of signatures on old records, you're allowing

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-28 Thread Mark . Andrews
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > there is no requirement to re-sign every record to achieve > > your 1 day expiry. Just change the zone key whenever you change > > zone data and have a 1 day expiry on the zone key's signature. > > No. If you maintain the validity of signatures on old records, yo

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-28 Thread Mark . Andrews
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > there is no requirement to re-sign every record to achieve > > > your 1 day expiry. Just change the zone key whenever you change > > > zone data and have a 1 day expiry on the zone key's signature. > > > > No. If you maintain the validity of signatures on

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-28 Thread Mark . Andrews
Third time lucky ... > Dan, >your claim is that you have to re-sign every record in > a zone daily to achieve a 1 day replay window. I'm stating > that you can achieve the same protection without re-signing > every record daily. > > Pre change:

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-20 Thread D. J. Bernstein
``Administrators normally insist on being able to change their records with at most a few days notice,'' my web page says, as a starting point for analyzing the expiration-date security issues. This applies to _all_ records. Existing DNS software assumes, correctly, that long TTLs are a mistake.

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-25 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Crawford wants your signatures today to last for a month. What happens if you decide tomorrow to change a machine's address list---for example, adding or removing a second address? Answer: An attacker can interfere with this change for 29 agonizing days. All he has to do is replay the old data un

Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-27 Thread Mark . Andrews
Dan, there is no requirement to re-sign every record to achieve your 1 day expiry. Just change the zone key whenever you change zone data and have a 1 day expiry on the zone key's signature. So daily you re-sign two RRsets. Mark -- Mark An

Re: (ngtrans) Re: NGtrans - DNSext joint meeting, call for participation

2001-07-29 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Robert Elz writes: > The data needs to be somehow carried to the key (which cannot be > exposed anywhere near any network), the signing done, and then the > data carried back again. Doing that once a month for most people > just might be tolerable - once a day and all that will ever exist are >