[DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Olaf Kolkman
to comment on. --Olaf $Id: NSEC-NSEC3 36 2010-01-22 11:02:32Z olaf $ 20100122 NSEC-NSEC3 Paul Wouters Added: 22 jan 2010 Discussion missing about NSEC vs NSEC3 Parameters from: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg07282.html Discussion: From: Paul

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: ZSK-roll-frequency

2010-01-22 Thread Todd Glassey
On 1/21/2010 9:24 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Paul Woutersp...@xelerance.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Eric Rescorla wrote: The point is that the numbers depend on your model of the attacker more than on the cryptography. Yes, but

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: ZSK-roll-frequency

2010-01-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Paul Hoffman wrote: - Regular rolling can give you a false sense of security about your rolling process How can you have any sense of security about your rolling process if you don't exercise it? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT

Re: [DNSOP] key rollover for real

2010-01-22 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-01-22, at 07:45, Andrew Sullivan wrote: It is simply not true that everything needs to be done for real in order to be sure it can be done. I think that's true. However, for procedures (manual or automated) that are required to function seamlessly and transparently in production,

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: ZSK-roll-frequency

2010-01-22 Thread Edward Lewis
At 17:11 -0500 1/21/10, Roy Arends wrote: I'd recommend that 'exercise the activity' is not done on critical production systems. There's a difference between exercise and test/training/etc. You do want to exercise on the real systems. At 17:20 -0500 1/21/10, Andrew Sullivan wrote: You

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 22 January 2010 12:04:07 +0100 Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: Strawman text said: Though some claim all data in the DNS should be considered public, it sometimes is considered to be more then private, but less then public data. That does not describe the problem well, in that

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 22 January 2010 23:09:11 +1100 Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Additionally NSEC3 provides no real benefit is highly structured zones like IP6.ARPA. It is relatively easy to enumerate a IP6.ARPA zone even if it is using NSEC3 by making use of the zone's structure. e164.arpa. is

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
Paul, --On 22 January 2010 14:51:38 -0500 Paul Wouters p...@xelerance.com wrote: the NSEC3 RR chain. Therefor, Opt-Out should be avoided if possible. 1. Therefor*e* 2. I don't think the last sentence follows from the foregoing, in that this behaviour is desirable for the zone operator! (I

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Edward Lewis
At 20:31 + 1/22/10, Alex Bligh wrote: contents) in example.org. So, whilst opt-out should be avoided across intervals containing secure delegations, I see no reason to avoid it across intervals that don't contain secure delegations. Opt-out is restricted to intervals that contain only

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 22 January 2010 15:45:54 -0500 Edward Lewis ed.le...@neustar.biz wrote: contents) in example.org. So, whilst opt-out should be avoided across intervals containing secure delegations, I see no reason to avoid it across intervals that don't contain secure delegations. Opt-out is

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: ZSK-roll-frequency

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:18 PM + 1/22/10, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:13:22AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 4:56 PM + 1/22/10, Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Paul Hoffman wrote: - Regular rolling can give you a false sense of security about your rolling

Re: [DNSOP] key rollover for real

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 03:23:02PM +, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: the apparent nub of the argument is... we need to be able to do this rollover thing, but if we screw up it will be hard to put back together... so we won't actually do the task - and hope

Re: [DNSOP] key rollover for real

2010-01-22 Thread David Conrad
Andrew, Which sort of test you ought to do is governed by what kind of needs you have. I've been in places where folks really needed to rely on generators kicking in during a power outage. When the generators turned out to be reasonably good at being pieces of industrial art because folks

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
Paul, I was talking about the situation where example.org is signed, the .org is optout and exemple.org does not exist. For many, it is impossible to register all typo-squat domains, so this is a real scenario. Ah, didn't spot the 'e'. Having verifiable deniability for typo-squated domaims

Re: [DNSOP] rfc4641bis: NSEC vs NSEC3.

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 23 January 2010 04:56:33 + Alex Bligh a...@alex.org.uk wrote: Having verifiable deniability for typo-squated domaims is very useful. If expensive, where 99% of your domains are unsigned. By which I mean expensive given this isn't the cheapest attack vector. If I want to typo