Re: [openpgp] Web Key Directory I-D -07

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Thu, 15 November 2018 04:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Web Key Directory I-D -07
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:03:07PM -0500, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2018-11-14 at 10:26 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Bart Butler wrote:
> > > So if I request from ProtonMail Bart.Butler@protonmail.com, I would get a key back with bartbutler@protonmail.com, and the clients could then prompt on unrecognized types of mismatches if desired because they would know that the server is returning the canonical form of the address.
> > 
> > We went through this with OPENPGPKEY and SMIMEA. You will get the SMTP
> > people blocking your draft when you try to interpret (or like above,
> > even rewrite) addresses based on "common mail provider rewrites". Their
> > firm believe is only receiving SMTP servers can interpret email addresses.
> 
> Bart isn't suggesting encoding common rewrites into OpenPGP, although I
> believe that Werner might be.  As an MTA maintainer, I think Bart's
> suggestion is entirely appropriate and inline with the ethos of
> federated SMTP.  I'll proceed on the assumption that my analysis of
> Bart's intent is correct.  Bart, please correct me if wrong.
> 
> In Bart's suggestion, the WKD server, run within the same autonomous
> mail-system (or email administrative domain) as the SMTP servers, can
> decide to map addresses and return a key suitable for use for that email
> address.  This does not change where the MUA should send email, but does
> adjust how a well-integrated MUA might choose an appropriate OpenPGP key
> for use for a given email address.
> 
> This is entirely in line with the federated design and only the owner of
> the systems at that location getting to make such decisions.  There are
> implications around caching, because such a rewrite becomes a long-term
> commitment if it's to be stored as ancillary data in the keyring for
> choosing the correct key.
> 
> Thus if presented with a new address test+foo@spodhuis.org and needing
> to get a key for it, with Bart's proposal, the MUA and the OpenPGP
> client software can make no assumptions.  It must not normalize anything
> to the left of the '@' sign.  But the MUA can use WKD and get back a key
> for <test@spodhuis.org>; the software can then record a mapping of
> test+foo@spodhuis.org -> test@spodhuis.org in OpenPGP recipient key
> selection preferences.  When later sending email to
> test+foo@spodhuis.org, the SMTP transaction proceeds unmodified: the MUA
> does not rewrite the recipient, you have to preserve the address
> as-given.  The remapped OpenPGP key selection proceeds as suggested
> though.  If sending email to test+bar@spodhuis.org then another WKD
> lookup needs to be made.  (Future work might look at protocols for
> indicating patterns to avoid repeated lookups).

I'm probably confused, but is this implying that WKD would insert a new
"lookup" operation such that a compromised WKD could cause me to encrypt a
message to an attacker-controlled key (with different UID) when I am trying
to encrypt to a non-attacker peer?

Thanks,

Ben