Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-31 Thread Alex Band
On 31 Jan 2011, at 04:25, Paul Vixie wrote: the reasoning you're describing is what we had in mind when we built DLV as an early deployment aid for DNSSEC. we had to break stiction where if there were no validators there would be incentive to sign, and if there were no signatures there

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Alex Band
Paul, I think my question is very pertinent. Of course the number of signed prefixes directly influences the number of validators. Do you think the RIPE NCC Validator tool would have been downloaded over 100 times in the last month if there were only 5 certified prefixes? In my opinion, the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and yes, probably crypto banks will sometimes fail as well, but on the whole, the failure

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
message: From: John Curran jcur...@arin.netmailto:jcur...@arin.net Date: January 24, 2011 2:58:52 PM EST To: arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and yes, probably crypto

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Leen Besselink
Hello Carlos, On 01/30/2011 02:57 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and yes, probably

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
...@arin.net arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource certification services for Internet number resources in the region. ARIN recognizes the importance

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:57:57 -0200, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo said: What I just don't get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can't be institutions we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and yes, probably

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Randy Bush
hi alex, just to be clear i think your web-based system is a good thing. 97.3% of your members do not want to go through the effort of installing certifying software and doing up/down with you. i am not fond of you holding folk's private keys, but that's what they get for laziness. of course

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
There's a big difference. If a bank screws up and loses $5,000 of my money, I can (at least potentially) sue them and recover $5,000 which is pretty much identical to the $5,000 I lost. If a key escrow company loses my private key, getting back an identical private key is exactly the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
I see also that many concerns expressed here are extensions of the perceived failures of the whole CA business. I agree that the whole model of CAs has largely failed. Not only there are too many of them, but the fact that they try to operate as for-profits makes them vulnerable to all the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread sthaug
- Hosted solutions offer a low barrier entry to smaller organizations who simply cannot develop their own PKI infrastructure. This is the case where they also lack the organizational skills to properly manage the keys themselves, so, in most cases at least, they are *better off* with a

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:28 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: - Hosted solutions offer a low barrier entry to smaller organizations who simply cannot develop their own PKI infrastructure. This is the case where they also lack the organizational skills to properly manage the keys themselves, so, in

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
Hey! Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no Because they publish data you have signed. They don't have the ability to modify the data and then sign that modification as if they were you if they aren't holding the private key. If they are holding the private key, then, you have,

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4d457f0e.7070...@consolejunkie.net, Leen Besselink writes: Hello Carlos, On 01/30/2011 02:57 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions we

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: Because they publish data you have signed. They don't have the ability to modify the data and then sign that modification as if they were you if they aren't holding the private key. If they are holding the private key, then,

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Vixie
From: Alex Band al...@ripe.net Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:39:36 +0100 I think my question is very pertinent. Of course the number of signed prefixes directly influences the number of validators. Do you think the RIPE NCC Validator tool would have been downloaded over 100 times in the last

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread Alex Band
: John Curran jcur...@arin.netmailto:jcur...@arin.net Date: January 24, 2011 2:58:52 PM EST To: arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its preparations

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread John Curran
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Alex Band wrote: John, Thanks for the update. With regards to offering a hosted solution, as you know that is the only thing the RIPE NCC currently offers. We're developing support for the up/down protocol as I write this. Alex - Yes, congrats on rolling out

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread Arturo Servin
-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net arin-annou...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource certification services for Internet number resources

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread Paul Vixie
From: Alex Band al...@ripe.net Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:26:55 +0100 ... So the question is, if the RIPE NCC would have required everyone to run their own certification setup using the open source tool-sets Randy mentions, would there be this much certified address space now? i don't agree

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-29 Thread Owen DeLong
...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource certification services for Internet number resources in the region. ARIN recognizes the importance of Internet number resource

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-28 Thread Samuel Weiler
[moderation seems slow; resending from subscribed address instead] On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Danny McPherson wrote: I suspect I've sufficiently chummed the waters, I'll kick back and absorb all the reasons this is a whack idea :) Short summary: it's not entirely whack, but no one has yet put

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-27 Thread Osterweil, Eric
Sorry to be Johnny-come-lately to this... On 1/24/11 6:31 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Right, I've heard the circular dependency arguments. So, are you suggesting the RPKI isn't going to rely on DNS at all? correct. it need not. Maybe I am misunderstand something here... Are

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-27 Thread Osterweil, Eric
On 1/25/11 7:04 AM, Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Joe Abley wrote: If the DNS was as unreliable as those words suggested, nobody would use it. I see evidence of this unreliability every day, so I must respectfully disagree. ; The

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/27/2011 7:51 PM, Osterweil, Eric wrote: I think the bottom line is that this infrastructure will allow a security solution to reach deployment_much_ sooner than a green-field design. Errr, yeah. See IPv6 deployment. Jack

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
Why does this stop the whole thing short? the devil is in the details and the trust. i am desperately open to other approaches. but work it out at the detailed level, not just a troll on nanog. i anxiously await your and danny's draft. randy

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-25 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Joe Abley wrote: If the DNS was as unreliable as those words suggested, nobody would use it. I see evidence of this unreliability every day, so I must respectfully disagree. ; The reality is that everybody uses it. The reality is that they don't really have a

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-25 Thread Charles N Wyble
On 1/24/2011 8:52 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: thinking of using DNS is tempting The main arguments I see against it are: 2. The generally creaky, fragile, brittle, non-scalable state of the overall DNS infrastructure in general.

Fwd: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread John Curran
...@arin.netmailto:arin-annou...@arin.net Subject: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource certification services for Internet number resources in the region. ARIN recognizes the importance of Internet number resource

Re: Fwd: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
thanks john. your consideration to the ops community is appreciated. ARIN continues its preparations for offering production-grade resource certification services for Internet number resources in the region. ARIN recognizes the importance of Internet number resource certification in the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Randy Bush wrote: i understand fearing holding others' private keys and critical data. no blame there. separate subject but out of curiousity, how reality based are arin's general liability fears? in the last few years, how many times has arin been a named

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
Beginning to wonder why, with work like DANE and certificates in DNS in the IETF, we need an RPKI and new hierarchical shared dependency system at all and can't just place ROAs in in-addr.arpa zone files that are DNSSEC-enabled. let's wind the wayback machine to 1998

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Randy Bush wrote: let's wind the wayback machine to 1998 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bates-bgp4-nlri-orig-verif-00 Yep, read that way back when it was posted initially, and again a short while back, makes good sense, methinks. And now that DNSSEC is

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
And now that DNSSEC is deployed and you are not sharing what you are smoking and DANE is happening see above randy

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote: And now that DNSSEC is deployed and you are not sharing what you are smoking root and .arpa are signed, well on the way, particularly relative to RPKI. Incremental cost of signing in-addr.arpa using a deployed DNS system as opposed to

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-24, at 20:24, Danny McPherson wrote: separate subject Beginning to wonder why, with work like DANE and certificates in DNS in the IETF, we need an RPKI and new hierarchical shared dependency system at all and can't just place ROAs in in-addr.arpa zone files that are

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-24, at 20:59, Danny McPherson wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Randy Bush wrote: And now that DNSSEC is deployed and you are not sharing what you are smoking root and .arpa are signed, well on the way, particularly relative to RPKI. Incremental cost of signing

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: I just don't like the notion of deploying a brand new system with data that at the end of the day is going to look an awful lot like the existing in-addr.arpa delegation system that's deployed, and introduce new hierarchical shared

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
I just don't like the notion of deploying a brand new system you want certificates etc? or did you plan to reuse dns keys? if the former, than all you are discussing is changing the transport to make routing security rely on dns and dns security. not a really great plan. if the latter, then

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Joe Abley wrote: In this case the DNS delegations go directly from RIR to C; there's no opportunity for A or B to sign intermediate zones, and hence no opportunity for them to indicate the legitimacy of the allocation. As a thought experiment, how would you

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Barnes
It's in-band only in the sense of delivery. The worst that a corruption of the underlying network can do to you is deny you updates; it can't convince you that a route validates when it shouldn't. And even denying updates to your RPKI cache isn't that bad, since the update process doesn't really

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Richard Barnes
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Danny McPherson da...@tcb.net wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Joe Abley wrote: In this case the DNS delegations go directly from RIR to C; there's no opportunity for A or B to sign intermediate zones, and hence no opportunity for them to indicate the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Randy Bush wrote: you want certificates etc? or did you plan to reuse dns keys? I suspect the former, reusing much of the SIDR machinery perhaps, although if the former, than all you are discussing is changing the transport to make routing security rely

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Danny McPherson wrote: So, are you suggesting the RPKI isn't going to rely on DNS at all? In terms of organic, real-time route validation performed by routers - which it is assumed is an ultimate goal of rPKI, at some point in the future - one should hope this

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Randy Bush wrote: the folk who sign dns zones are not even in the same building as the folk who deal with address space. I think the idea is to effectuate de-siloing in this space to the point that the DNS folks would make the appropriate delegations to the

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Randy Bush
the folk who sign dns zones are not even in the same building as the folk who deal with address space. I think the idea is to effectuate de-siloing in this space to the point that the DNS folks would make the appropriate delegations to the addressing folks, who would then proceed to

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: The more you have to invent, though, the more this sounds like a bike-shed discussion. s/DNSSEC/X.509/g s/delegating reverse prefix zone/signing RPKI delegation certificate/g The difference is that we don't have an operational RPKI system,

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2011-01-24, at 20:24, Danny McPherson wrote: separate subject Beginning to wonder why, with work like DANE and certificates in DNS in the IETF, we need an RPKI  and new hierarchical shared dependency system at all and

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:31 30PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2011-01-24, at 20:24, Danny McPherson wrote: separate subject Beginning to wonder why, with work like DANE and certificates in DNS in the IETF, we need an

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:31 30PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: it's not the best example, but I know that at UUNET there were plenty of examples of the in-addr tree not really following the BGP path. The other

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: thinking of using DNS is tempting The main arguments I see against it are: 1. Circular dependencies. 2. The generally creaky, fragile, brittle, non-scalable state of the overall DNS infrastructure in general. Routing and

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-24 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: thinking of using DNS is tempting The main arguments I see against it are: 1.      Circular dependencies. in the end though... if you depend upon something