On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:28 AM Alexander Mayrhofer <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Question to the broader Working Group:
>
> Shall i include the following strategy into the document at this
> stage, or should we (see "EXPERIMENTAL" document status) divert this
> into a future specification which updates or obsoletes the current
> document?
>
> I do not have an opinion on that question.


> Comments appreciated.
>
> best,
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Brian Dickson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Sorry to be commenting so late in the process...
> >
> > Was the strategy of "MTU(-ish) maximum padding policy" ever suggested,
> > possibly as an alternative to Maximum Padding Policy?
> >
> > IMHO, there are signifiant benefits, even beyond privacy:
> >
> > It addresses the issues on Random that Eric R raises
> > It doesn't fragment (at least locally and/or if "Internet MTU" value(s)
> are
> > used, like 1492 or 1472 or 1452 rather than 1500 (takes into account
> > expectations on use of MPLS and/or L2 encapsulation in the middle while
> > still using "maximum-ish" padding,  of fixed size per client
>



> > It largely defeats use of DNS amplification, since the query packet will
> > already be as big as the biggest response.


I thought the query and response used separate padding sizes, since queries
are typically much smaller.  So an attacker could use small padding to a
server that used "maximum-ish" padding and get amplification.  I don't
think we want to pad queries to more than 288?

-- 
Bob Harold


> Of course, it doesn't defeat
> > anonymizing attacks, it just reduces the use of authority servers for
> > strictly amplification purposes.
> >
> > Brian Dickson
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 3:47 AM <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> >> directories.
> >> This draft is a work item of the DNS PRIVate Exchange WG of the IETF.
> >>
> >>         Title           : Padding Policy for EDNS(0)
> >>         Author          : Alexander Mayrhofer
> >>         Filename        : draft-ietf-dprive-padding-policy-05.txt
> >>         Pages           : 10
> >>         Date            : 2018-04-13
> >>
> >> Abstract:
> >>    RFC 7830 specifies the EDNS(0) 'Padding' option, but does not specify
> >>    the actual padding length for specific applications.  This memo lists
> >>    the possible options ("Padding Policies"), discusses implications of
> >>    each of these options, and provides a recommended (experimental)
> >>    option.
> >>
> >>
> >> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dprive-padding-policy/
> >>
> >> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dprive-padding-policy-05
> >>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dprive-padding-policy-05
> >>
> >> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> >> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dprive-padding-policy-05
> >>
> >>
> >> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
> >> submission
> >> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
> >>
> >> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> >> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
> >>
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