Re: [DNSOP] Draft for dynamic discovery of secure resolvers

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Sun, 19 August 2018 01:57 UTC

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Ted Lemon wrote:
...
> If you are trusting a "pre-shared key," why not just pre-share the DoT
> server information? ...

because my preferred DoT server may not work inside someone else's network.

...
> The reason it's not drama-free is because you can't just hand-wave the
> threat model.   What you just said is a fine way for you, Paul Vixie, a
> knowledgeable user, to configure your device, but I can't explain this
> threat model to a typical end user, and they have no basis for deciding
> what they should do.   You mention the GFWoC, and that's certainly a use
> case we need to consider, but we also need to consider the use case of
> the malicious coffee shop network that wants to harvest your passwords.

i thought we'd spent 19 years on DNSSEC to deal with that threat, along 
with DANE and TLS 1.3. if it's still an unsolved problem, then i dare 
say that we won't be fixing it by telling people not to use RDNS stub 
servers that are recommended to them by their address provider via DHCP.

>   I don't know if you have friends who've been taken by this scam, but I
> have, and it cost them a /lot./   So how does my host tell the GFWoC
> from the malicious coffee shop server?   Assume that it can't ask me to
> figure it out—it has to follow some decision heuristic that is
> programmed in at the factory.

when i go to defcon, my software updates all fail, because signatures 
are wrong. luckily, the vendors of my software understand this problem. 
even my bios vendor signs their updates in a way that the recipient can 
tell there's a forgery. i would _not_ expect to be able to mitigate any 
of those risks by changing who i received my DNS responses from.

-- 
P Vixie