Re: [secdir] [dane] SecDir Review of draft-ietf-dane-ops-12

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Mon, 13 July 2015 03:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] [dane] SecDir Review of draft-ietf-dane-ops-12
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On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

>> CT auditors log EE-certs. Checking the CT logs also provides a way to
>> signal rogue EE-certs to the original webserver via a gossip/client
>> protocol. So I would not say Usage 3 should never check the CT logs.
>
> DANE-EE(3) certs are often self-signed, and there's no way to
> control the "spam" problem on the CT logs with DANE-EE(3).

You don't know what audit logs will use for policies. Perhaps some
audit logs will be dedicated to only self-signed certs. I do not
think the dane document should dictate CT behaviour.

> Furthermore such a certificate is only ever "rogue" if DNSSEC is
> compromised to publish rogue TLSA RRs.

Not if they use a CT log for prepublishing somehow. Although that is
unlikely to happen with SCT's without a CA, I still think you should
not make those decisions on this document.

>> I don't think that whether or not public/private CA's are in used in
>> the TLSA record matters. A client that wants to confirm an EE-cert
>> via DNSSEC _and_ CT should be able to do so.
>
> Perhaps if it were possible, but I'm afraid it is not.  From the
> CT FAQ:

> Thus CT logs will not accept self-signed, domain-issued, ...

The CT FAQ is not an IETF document.

> You're misreading the text.  It is warning server operators that
> "3 0 0" is less suitable for serving RPK clients (if that's what

We disagree on the concept of "RPK" clients.

>> I am confused. If DANE is only talking about how to verify a certain
>> certificate received over TLS, I do not think this document should
>> modify the TLS protocol with respect to SNI. It's out of scope.
>
> You're confused.  The server is free to ignore the client's SNI
> extension when it has a single certificate that works for all hosted
> domains, because clients authenticate the server via the certificate
> or key digest, and don't care about what name is in the certificate.
> We're not modifying TLS, we're explaining that the server is free
> to ignore the client's SNI extension.

How is that not modifying TLS server behaviour?

Paul