Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:35:54AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: it in their products or services. Peter Koch did provide an interesting data point that warrants further investigation (20-35% of queries having DO bit on seems a bit high to me) and someone else responded

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Jelte Jansen
Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:35:54AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: it in their products or services. Peter Koch did provide an interesting data point that warrants further investigation (20-35% of queries having DO bit on seems a bit high to me)

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Alexander Gall
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:43:14 -0400, Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:35:54AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: it in their products or services. Peter Koch did provide an interesting data point that warrants further investigation (20-35% of queries having DO bit

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Andrews wrote: DO says that you *understand* DNSSEC and that it is ok to send a DNSSEC response. It does not mean that you will be validating the response. named in all production versions of BIND 9 (9.1.0 onwards) has set DO on all EDNS queries. BIND

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread David Conrad
On Aug 20, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Unlike me, you have no implementation expertise. Um. Right. Regards, -drc ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Mark Andrews
David Conrad wrote: So far, I have seen what appears to be a lot of FUD from Masataka and the usual concerns/complaints about DNSSEC from folks who haven't implemented it in their products or services. Unlike me, you have no implementation expertise. I did implement server code

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-20 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: So please consider other options before repeating the holy mantra 'DNSSEC is the only solution'. = it is not a mantra but the reality: - transaction protection is not enough if we want to keep caching in the middle (the argument is it has to be a

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:55:31AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Now, maybe that doesn't matter for many of these cases. It is entirely possible that DNSSEC deployment for most zones is just not worth it. If that's true, however, why are we so worried about poison attacks? Because quite a

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread Paul Wouters
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Sure, large organizations with large, mostly competent, and very conservative IT departments (think banks) will probably not have this problem and will probably deploy successfully. None of that will matter, however, if everyone else starts adopting

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:07:04PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: Because this is only true for the authorative part of DNSSEC. Since Dan showed you can cache poison any non-DNSSEC resolver for ANY domain, not just the domains you are not protecting, you basically have no choice but to mitigate

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread David Conrad
On Aug 19, 2008, at 10:00 AM, bert hubert wrote: In fact, I'm so far not having luck getting around even my 3-year old primitive anti-spoofing behaviour. Have you tried dsniff anywhere on the path the DNS packets take? Regards, -drc ___ DNSOP

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:13:44PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, bert hubert wrote: In fact, I'm so far not having luck getting around even my 3-year old primitive anti-spoofing behaviour. Funny, that's not what Dan's talk said. PowerDNS specifically was trivial to spoof

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:35:54AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: it in their products or services. Peter Koch did provide an interesting data point that warrants further investigation (20-35% of queries having DO bit on seems a bit high to me) and someone else responded privately that I

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-19 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 19, 2008, at 12:23 PM, bert hubert wrote: Again - this is about TODAY. DNSSEC might be the end all solution but even if it is, it is not deployed widely today and it won't be 12 months from now. Nobody's disputing that point. Is this why we are arguing? The reason I'm pushing

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:07:03PM -0700, David Conrad wrote: intervention) or they'll turn off DNSSEC. So, in the worst case, they'll get bitten and revert back to the same level of security (or lack thereof) they have today. Is this worth blocking DNSSEC deployment? It seems to me that

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-18 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Paul Wouters wrote: I wouldn't be using starbucks resolver, since i just installed my own DNSSEC-aware resolver? Ordinarilly , when you get a DHCP-supplied nameserver from starbucks, your stub resolver directs its requests to that caching server. It is indeed possible

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Ondřej Surý
2008/8/15 David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: But until we have root and .com signed, and until the average end-user is protected by a validating resolver, we aren't done yet, and I don't really get any actual benefit from my efforts. Which,

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: Given this, does anyone see any DNS security and/or stability concerns if a miracle were to happen and the root were to be signed tomorrow? Well,it will introduce a lot of large RRs, which may cause problems. No, it won't. As David already

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Also, a well behavng resolver has way less request to the root servers then to other servers. Why, do you think, that servers other than the root servers won't reply with oversized messages? Don't twist my words. I never said that. jaa

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 16, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: - If Mal cracks someone else's server, that server still doesn't have the bank's certificate, and won't have the bank's dns domain, either. So the browser should think that it got the wrong certificate.

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: Also, a well behavng resolver has way less request to the root servers then to other servers. Why, do you think, that servers other than the root servers won't reply with oversized messages? Don't twist my words. I

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread David Conrad
Masataka, No, it won't. As David already pointed out, people not interested won't set the DO bit so won't ask for DNSSEC. I'm talking about people who have, foolishly enough, interested in DNSSEC and asked for DNSSEC information sometimes in vain. If they have configured DNSSEC, then they

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews wrote: Considering that two RRs each containing 2048 bit data will need oversized messages, they may not be properly treated by some servers. Those suffering from oversized messages may turn-off DNSSEC and there is instability for those moving with their laptops.

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 17, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Dean Anderson wrote: Changing DNS doesn't eliminate the attack of misplaced trust. It merely eliminates one method we know of for accomplishing the attack, at great expense and great risk, I might add. You may not add

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 17, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: Changing DNS protocol is considered by many to be expensive and risky. Are you saying its not expensive or risky? That seems to be a far more bold assertion. Actually, you and Ohta-san seem to be taking that position. That's not many.

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Dean Anderson wrote: There are two more problems with this. First, Putting any kind of large record in the root creates the opportunity to use root servers in a DOS attack by sending queries for the large records to the root servers. Because of Root Anycasting, there are

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Wouters
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ted Lemon wrote: The hype surrounding the Kaminsky report is unjustified. For example, one can't steal bank information with this attack, as the mainstream press has reported. This isn't true, because if I can convince you that a naive user that he or she is talking to

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Joe Baptista
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: security layers are good. If we don't give those people the right tools to properly configure and properly maintain those configurations, there will be stability issues, as I listed earlier. Let me tell you something.

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 17, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: Changing DNS protocol is considered by many to be expensive and risky. Are you saying its not expensive or risky? That seems to be a far more bold assertion. Actually, you and Ohta-san seem to

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-17 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Paul Wouters wrote: On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Dean Anderson wrote: There are two more problems with this. First, Putting any kind of large record in the root creates the opportunity to use root servers in a DOS attack by sending queries for the large records to the

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-16 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 15 aug 2008, at 22.01, David Conrad wrote: Let me try to (hopefully) more clearly articulate my question: given the fact that caching servers only care about DNSSEC if they're explicitly configured to do so, does anyone anticipate any stability/ security concerns to those folks who

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-16 Thread Mark Andrews
David Conrad wrote: Given this, does anyone see any DNS security and/or stability concerns if a miracle were to happen and the root were to be signed tomorrow? Well,it will introduce a lot of large RRs, which may cause problems. Considering that two RRs each containing 2048 bit

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-16 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 16, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: For example, besides the previously mentioned key rollover issue, I understand that DNSSEC also doesn't allow the protocol to be changed securely. And we do expect the protocol to be changed. As a

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-16 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Andrews wrote: Considering that two RRs each containing 2048 bit data will need oversized messages, they may not be properly treated by some servers. Those suffering from oversized messages may turn-off DNSSEC and there is instability for those moving with their laptops. And how

[DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread David Conrad
Hi, On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: But until we have root and .com signed, and until the average end- user is protected by a validating resolver, we aren't done yet, and I don't really get any actual benefit from my efforts. Which, tragically, is why it's taking so long.

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread Frederico A C Neves
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:29:13AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Hi, On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: But until we have root and .com signed, and until the average end- user is protected by a validating resolver, we aren't done yet, and I don't really get any actual benefit

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:29 AM -0700 8/15/08, David Conrad wrote: Given this, does anyone see any DNS security and/or stability concerns if a miracle were to happen and the root were to be signed tomorrow? Yes, at the time of the first root key rollover. Well, to be more specific, at the time that all of the

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 11:29 AM -0700 8/15/08, David Conrad wrote: Given this, does anyone see any DNS security and/or stability concerns if a miracle were to happen and the root were to be signed tomorrow? Yes, at the time of the first root key

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: If what you really, really mean to ask is given the fact that caching servers only care about DNSSEC if they're explicitly configured to do so, does anyone anticipate any stability/security concerns to those folks who _don't_ configure

Re: [DNSOP] A different question (was Re: Kaminsky on djbdns bugs (fwd))

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:07 PM -0700 8/15/08, David Conrad wrote: Paul, On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: If what you really, really mean to ask is given the fact that caching servers only care about DNSSEC if they're explicitly configured to do so, does anyone anticipate any stability/security