DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (dane) ------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2011-03-31 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Ondrej Sury Warren Kumari Security Area Director(s): Stephen Farrell Sean Turner Tim Polk Security Area Advisor: Stephen Farrell Secretary(ies): Matt Lepinski Mailing Lists: General Discussion:keyassure@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/keyassure Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/keyassure/current/maillist.html Description of Working Group: Objective: Specify mechanisms and techniques that allow Internet applications to establish cryptographically secured communications by using information distributed through DNSSEC for discovering and authenticating public keys which are associated with a service located at a domain name. Problem Statement: Entities on the Internet are usually identified using domain names and forming a cryptographically secured connection to the entity requires the entity to authenticate its name. For instance, in HTTPS, a server responding to a query for is expected to authenticate as "www.example.com". Security protocols such as TLS and IPsec accomplish this authentication by allowing an endpoint to prove ownership of a private key whose corresponding public key is somehow bound to the name being authenticated. As a pre-requisite for authentication, then, these protocols require a mechanism for bindings to be asserted between public keys and domain names. DNSSEC provides a mechanism for a zone operator to sign DNS information directly, using keys that are bound to the domain by the parent domain; relying parties can continue this chain up to any trust anchor that they accept. In this way, bindings of keys to domains are asserted not by external entities, but by the entities that operate the DNS. In addition, this technique inherently limits the scope of any given entity to the names in zones he controls. This working group will develop mechanisms for zone operators to present bindings between names within their control and public keys, in such a way that these bindings can be integrity-protected (and thus shown to be authentically from the zone operator) using DNSSEC and used as a basis for authentication in protocols that use domain names as identifiers. Possible starting points for these deliverables include draft-hallambaker-certhash, draft-hoffman-keys-linkage-from-dns, and draft-josefsson-keyassure-tls. The mechanisms developed by this group will address bindings between domain names and keys, allowing flexibility for all key-transport mechanisms supported by the application protocols addressed (e.g., both self-signed and CA-issued certificates for use in TLS). The solutions specified by this working group rely upon the security of the DNS to provide source authentication for public keys. The decision whether the chain of trust provided by DNSSEC is sufficient to trust the key, or whether additional mechanisms are required to determine the acceptability of a key, is left to the entity that uses the key material. In addition to the protections afforded by DNSSEC, the protocols and mechanisms designed by this working group require securing the "last hop" by operating a local DNS resolver or securing the connection to remote resolver - this WG will not specify new mechanisms to secure that hop, but will reference existing specifications or document existing methods in order to allow implementations to interoperate securely. Initial deliverables for this working group are limited to distribution of bindings between names within the zone operator's control and public keys. More general statements of policy for a domain are out of scope, and new tasks in this area may only be adopted through a re-chartering. The group may also create documents that describe how protocol entities can discover and validate these bindings in the execution of specific applications. This work would be done in coordination with the IETF Working Groups responsible for the protocols. Goals and Milestones: Apr 2011 First WG draft of standards-track protocol for using DNS to associate hosts with keys for TLS and DTLS May 2011 First WG draft of standards-track protocols for using DNS to associate hosts with IPsec Sep 2011 Protocol for using DNS to associate domain names with keys for TLS and DTLS to IESG Sep 2011 Protocols for using DNS to associate domain names with keys for IPsec to IESG Nov 2011 Recharter Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Dec 2010 Mar 2011 Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names For TLS Request For Comments: None to date.