[DNSOP] NSEC3 aggressive use for unsigned zones

Mukund Sivaraman <muks@isc.org> Sun, 27 November 2016 10:55 UTC

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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:25:21 +0530
From: Mukund Sivaraman <muks@isc.org>
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Subject: [DNSOP] NSEC3 aggressive use for unsigned zones
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draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec-aggressiveuse works for stopping random sub-domain
attacks for signed zones.

The problem exists for unsigned zones and different approaches have been
proposed:

- Bloom filtering queries (e.g. https://github.com/hdais/unbound-bloomfilter)
- Bloom filter bitfield in RRs (e.g. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bellovin-dnsext-bloomfilt-00)

What are the consequences of the authoritiative server returning
synthesized unsigned NSEC3 RRs upon being signalled by the resolver
using an EDNS option? This could be spoofed by a man-in-the-middle, but
so can every unsigned answer.

		Mukund