On Jul 8, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On 8 jul 2013, at 20:49, "Dickson, Brian" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> However, maybe something like a "PNS" (parent NS) in the child, where the
>> child is authoritative for the data, could signal {change | validation}
>> (depending on the RRR requirements), would do the trick?
> 
> Might solve some events, but I do not think it solves the most important 
> situation, that DNS is moved from one DNS provider to another. The old DNS 
> provider can not be asked to enter NS records for the gaining provider... And 
> using NS (in reality, as you look for auth servers) to fetch NS data seems to 
> me be a bit...fishy... ;-) The attack vector against such a situation is very 
> complicated.

And is *precisely* why this document / technique is not trying to "solve" it.

CDS is specifically only for rolling your DNSKEY. It is specifically NOT for:
establishing trust.
recovering from a key compromise.
changing operators.
changing your NS.
a duck.

It is designed to be easy to clean, simple and easy to implement. It is 
designed to solve the "common case" -- there are a whole slew of cases that it 
simply rules out of scope.

This is designed to be the answer to "I feel like I should roll my keys because 
XXX, but I'm simply too lazy / likely to screw it up with the current 
interface" -- where XXX is something related to age, some policy, etc, NOT 
because I wandered into the directory where I store keys and found a file 
called exploit.php…

If I need to move DNS hosting folk, change my NS records, transfer my domain to 
another registrar,  revoke all keys, etc I'll go "old skool" and do the out of 
band / web dance.

We want to make this annoying (probably repetitive) bit easier, ocean boiling 
is left for later….

[ Please note: I'm currently sitting in a hotel in South Africa, with less than 
stellar Internet access, and a funny timezone. Replies may be terse and 
delayed. ]

W


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