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signatures. Commonly, there will be a single private key that authenticates an entire zone but there might be multiple keys for different algorithms, signers, etc. If a security aware resolver reliably learns a public key of the zone, it can authenticate, for signed data read from that zone, that it is properly authorized. The most secure implementation is for the zone private key(s) to be kept off-line and used to re-sign all of the records in the zone periodically. However, there are cases, for example dynamic update [RFCs 2136, 2137], where DNS private keys need to be on-line [RFC 2541]. The data origin authentication key(s) are associated with the zone and not with the servers that store copies of the data. That means compromise of a secondary server or, if the key(s) are kept off line, even the primary server for a zone, will not necessarily affect the degree of assurance that a resolver has that it can determine whether data is genuine. A resolver could learn a public key of a zone either by reading it from the DNS or by having it staticly configured. To reliably learn a public key by reading it from the DNS, the key itself must be signed with a key the resolver trusts. The resolver must be configured with at least a public key which authenticates one zone as a starting point. From there, it can securely read public keys of other zones, if the intervening zones in the DNS tree are secure and their signed keys accessible. Adding data origin authentication and integrity requires no change to the "on-the-wire" DNS protocol beyond the addition of the signature resource type and the key resource type needed for key distribution. (Data non-existence authentication also requires the NXT RR as described in 2.3.2.) This service can be supported by existing resolver and caching server implementations so long as they can support the additional resource types (see Section 9). The one exception is that CNAME referrals in a secure zone can not be authenticated if they are from non-security aware servers (see Section 2.3.5).Eastlake Standards Track [Page 6]RFC 2535 DNS Security Extensions March 1999 If signatures are separately retrieved and verified when retrieving the information they authenticate, there will be more trips to the server and performance will suffer. Security aware servers mitigate that degradation by attempting to send the signature(s) needed (see Section 4.2).2.3.1 The SIG Resource Record The syntax of a SIG resource record (signature) is described in Section 4. It cryptographicly binds the RRset being signed to the signer and a validity interval. Every name in a secured zone will have associated with it at least one SIG resource record for each resource type under that name except for glue address RRs and delegation point NS RRs. A security aware server will attempt to return, with RRs retrieved, the corresponding SIGs. If a server is not security aware, the resolver must retrieve all the SIG records for a name and select the one or ones that sign the resource record set(s) that resolver is interested in.2.3.2 Authenticating Name and Type Non-existence The above security mechanism only provides a way to sign existing RRsets in a zone. "Data origin" authentication is not obviously provided for the non-existence of a domain name in a zone or the non-existence of a type for an existing name. This gap is filled by the NXT RR which authenticatably asserts a range of non-existent names in a zone and the non-existence of types for the existing name just before that range. Section 5 below covers the NXT RR.2.3.3 Special Considerations With Time-to-Live A digital signature will fail to verify if any change has occurred to the data between the time it was originally signed and the time the signature is verified. This conflicts with our desire to have the time-to-live (TTL) field of resource records tick down while they are cached. This could be avoided by leaving the time-to-live out of the digital signature, but that would allow unscrupulous servers to set arbitrarily long TTL values undetected. Instead, we include the "original" TTL in the signature and communicate that data along with the current TTL. Unscrupulous servers under this scheme can manipulate the TTL but a security aware resolver will bound the TTL value it uses at the original signed value. Separately, signatures include a signature inception time and a signature expiration time. AEastlake Standards Track [Page 7]RFC 2535 DNS Security Extensions March 1999 resolver that knows the absolute time can determine securely whether a signature is in effect. It is not possible to rely solely on the signature expiration as a substitute for the TTL, however, since the TTL is primarily a database consistency mechanism and non-security aware servers that depend on TTL must still be supported.2.3.4 Special Considerations at Delegation Points DNS security would like to view each zone as a unit of data completely under the control of the zone owner with each entry (RRset) signed by a special private key held by the zone manager. But the DNS protocol views the leaf nodes in a zone, which are also the apex nodes of a subzone (i.e., delegation points), as "really" belonging to the subzone. These nodes occur in two master files and might have RRs signed by both the upper and lower zone's keys. A retrieval could get a mixture of these RRs and SIGs, especially since one server could be serving both the zone above and below a delegation point. [RFC 2181] There MUST be a zone KEY RR, signed by its superzone, for every subzone if the superzone is secure. This will normally appear in the subzone and may also be included in the superzone. But, in the case of an unsecured subzone which can not or will not be modified to add any security RRs, a KEY declaring the subzone to be unsecured MUST appear with the superzone signature in the superzone, if the superzone is secure. For all but one other RR type the data from the subzone is more authoritative so only the subzone KEY RR should be signed in the superzone if it appears there. The NS and any glue address RRs SHOULD only be signed in the subzone. The SOA and any other RRs that have the zone name as owner should appear only in the subzone and thus are signed only there. The NXT RR type is the exceptional case that will always appear differently and authoritatively in both the superzone and subzone, if both are secure, as described in Section 5.2.3.5 Special Considerations with CNAME There is a problem when security related RRs with the same owner name as a CNAME RR are retrieved from a non-security-aware server. In particular, an initial retrieval for the CNAME or any other type may not retrieve any associated SIG, KEY, or NXT RR. For retrieved types other than CNAME, it will retrieve that type at the target name of the CNAME (or chain of CNAMEs) and will also return the CNAME. In particular, a specific retrieval for type SIG will not get the SIG, if any, at the original CNAME domain name but rather a SIG at the target name.Eastlake Standards Track [Page 8]RFC 2535 DNS Security Extensions March 1999 Security aware servers must be used to securely CNAME in DNS. Security aware servers MUST (1) allow KEY, SIG, and NXT RRs along with CNAME RRs, (2) suppress CNAME processing on retrieval of these types as well as on retrieval of the type CNAME, and (3) automatically return SIG RRs authenticating the CNAME or CNAMEs encountered in resolving a query. This is a change from the previous DNS standard [RFCs 1034/1035] which prohibited any other RR type at a node where a CNAME RR was present.2.3.6 Signers Other Than The Zone There are cases where the signer in a SIG resource record is other than one of the private key(s) used to authenticate a zone. One is for support of dynamic update [RFC 2136] (or future requests which require secure authentication) where an entity is permitted to authenticate/update its records [RFC 2137] and the zone is operating in a mode where the zone key is not on line. The public key of the entity must be present in the DNS and be signed by a zone level key but the other RR(s) may be signed with the entity's key. A second case is support of transaction and request authentication as described in Section 2.4. In additions, signatures can be included on resource records within the DNS for use by applications other than DNS. DNS related signatures authenticate that data originated with the authority of a zone owner or that a request or transaction originated with the relevant entity. Other signatures can provide other types of assurances.2.4 DNS Transaction and Request Authentication The data origin authentication service described above protects retrieved resource records and the non-existence of resource records but provides no protection for DNS requests or for message headers. If header bits are falsely set by a bad server, there is little that can be done. However, it is possible to add transaction authentication. Such authentication means that a resolver can be sure it is at least getting messages from the server it thinks it queried and that the response is from the query it sent (i.e., that these messages have not been diddled in transit). This is accomplished by optionally adding a special SIG resource record at the end of the reply which digitally signs the concatenation of the server's response and the resolver's query.Eastlake Standards Track [Page 9]RFC 2535 DNS Security Extensions March 1999 Requests can also be authenticated by including a special SIG RR at the end of the request. Authenticating requests serves no function in older DNS servers and requests with a non-empty additional information section produce error returns or may even be ignored by many of them. However, this syntax for signing requests is defined as a way of authenticating secure dynamic update requests [RFC 2137] or future requests requiring authentication. The private keys used in transaction security belong to the entity composing the reply, not to the zone involved. Request authentication may also involve the private key of the host or other entity composing the request or other private keys depending on the request authority it is sought to establish. The corresponding public key(s) are normally stored in and retrieved from the DNS for verification. Because requests and replies are highly variable, message authentication SIGs can not be pre-calculated. Thus it will be necessary to keep the private key on-line, for example in software or in a directly connected piece of hardware.3. The KEY Resource Record The KEY resource record (RR) is used to store a public key that is associated with a Domain Name System (DNS) name. This can be the public key of a zone, a user, or a host or other end entity. Security aware DNS implementations MUST be designed to handle at least two simultaneously valid keys of the same type associated with the same name. The type number for the KEY RR is 25. A KEY RR is, like any other RR, authenticated by a SIG RR. KEY RRs must be signed by a zone level key.3.1 KEY RDATA format The RDATA for a KEY RR consists of flags, a protocol octet, the algorithm number octet, and the public key itself. The format is as follows:Eastlake Standards Track [Page 10]RFC 2535 DNS Security Extensions March 1999 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | flags | protocol | algorithm | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | / / public key / / / +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-| The KEY RR is not intended for storage of certificates and a separate certificate RR has been developed for that purpose, defined in [RFC 2538]. The meaning of the KEY RR owner name, flags, and protocol octet are described in Sections 3.1.1 through 3.1.5 below. The flags and algorithm must be examined before any data following the algorithm octet as they control the existence and format of any following data. The algorithm and public key fields are described in Section 3.2. The format of the public key is algorithm dependent. KEY RRs do not specify their validity period but their authenticating SIG RR(s) do as described in Section 4 below.
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