Re: [DNSOP] Updated NSEC5 protocol spec and paper

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Thu, 09 March 2017 20:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Updated NSEC5 protocol spec and paper
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I suggest we first deploy NSEC0 which simply nulls out the whole NSEC/NXT
issue entirely. At this point anyone who is deploying DNSSEC is helping the
cause. Do not set membership requirements that exclude them.

Node insertion is a security concern for some DNSSEC applications but not
for all.

Implementing NSEC0 would not be a burden on validators. If nobody uses it
then there is no harm to it. If people only use it for a short time during
deployment then it is useful. If people use it and won't stop then that is
proof of a demand for NSEC5.


I completely reject your notion of where validation occurs and what the
value is BTW but that is a different issue. Bottom line is that I do not
depend on validators being deployed to the end points as I do not expect
that to happen soon and quite possibly not ever.


On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2017, at 7:29, Shumon Huque wrote:
>
> We've requested an agenda slot at the DNSOP working group meeting at
>> IETF98 to talk about the NSEC5 protocol. Our chairs have requested that
>> we send out a note to the group ahead of time, so here it is.
>>
>> This protocol has not to our knowledge been presented at dnsop before,
>> but has been discussed previously at other IETF venues, such as SAAG.
>>
>
> The protocol described in draft-vcelak-nsec5 has improved since it was
> first presented, but it is still unclear why we should adopt it as part of
> DNSSEC. The benefits listed in the draft are real, but they come at a very
> steep cost for zone administrators who might use NSEC5.
>
> Is there a community of zone admins who want this so much that they won't
> start signing until it exists?
>
> Short of that, is there a community of zone admins who are using
> NSEC/NSEC3 white lies who find this to be a significant improvement?
>
> If not, adopting this seems like a bad idea. No one can operationally sign
> with NSEC5 until nearly all validators have it installed. In the meantime,
> a zone admin who cares about zone enumeration and wants to sign will use
> white lies, and those who don't care about zone enumeration won't pay any
> attention to this.
>
> Even though this document has some really nice design decisions in it,
> should it be adopted in DNSSEC unless it is likely to be deployed?
>
> --Paul Hoffman
>
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