Re: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 14 2012, Gaurav kansal wrote: We have a Authenticated Response in DNSSEC through trust chain. Now my question is why we itself need a NSEC when we get response from DNSSEC enabled server authentically. Means, if a Record exist in DNSSEC, then it replies the answer along with RRSIG of th

Re: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Marco Davids
Hello Gaurav, You might want to have a look at our whitepaper on 'authenticated denial of existence' to gain better understanding of this somewhat complicated aspect of the DNSSEC specification: https://www.sidn.nl/fileadmin/docs/PDF-files_UK/wp-2011-0x01-v2.pdf Regards, -- Marco On 02/14/20

Re: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Chris Buxton
Briefly, the answer is, the NXDOMAIN response could be replayed by a man-in-the-middle attacker. We need to have something to sign, something specific to that query. If we just return the zone's SOA record and its signature, we're still subject to a replay attack. So we need to prove the negati

RE: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Spain, Dr. Jeffry A.
> We have a Authenticated Response in DNSSEC through trust chain. > Now my question is why we itself need a NSEC when we get response from DNSSEC > enabled server authentically. > Means, if a Record exist in DNSSEC, then it replies the answer along with > RRSIG of that RR. > AND if domain doesn

Re: Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Miek Gieben
[ Quoting at 22:53 on Feb 14 in "Query Regarding NSEC..." ] > Dear Team, > > We have a Authenticated Response in DNSSEC through trust chain. > > Now my question is why we itself need a NSEC when we get response from DNSSEC > enabled server authentically. > > > > Means, if a Record exist in

Query Regarding NSEC RR in DNSSEC

2012-02-14 Thread Gaurav kansal
Dear Team, We have a Authenticated Response in DNSSEC through trust chain. Now my question is why we itself need a NSEC when we get response from DNSSEC enabled server authentically. Means, if a Record exist in DNSSEC, then it replies the answer along with RRSIG of that RR. AND if domain