[lamps] Draft New Version (was Re: [saag] Proposal for OCSP over DNS)

"Dr. Pala" <madwolf@openca.org> Thu, 26 October 2017 21:59 UTC

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Subject: [lamps] Draft New Version (was Re: [saag] Proposal for OCSP over DNS)
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Hi all,

I just want to let everybody know that we manage to send in the latest 
version of the draft that better organizes the text and incorporates the 
previous work / I-Ds into one:

    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pala-odin

comments, feedback, etc. always welcome :D

Cheers,
Max


On 10/23/17 3:38 PM, Dr. Pala wrote:
>
> Hi Paul, all,
>
> the way I personally see this is not only related to Internet CAs / 
> website-oriented TLS, but also as a way to distribute the revocation 
> information in environments where entities (devices, software, etc.) 
> might be restricted from accessing the global Internet but still 
> allowed to query the DNS. Entities leveraging specific trust 
> environments (e.g., OCF, CMI, etc. ) might especially benefit from 
> this additional distribution mechanism (which is not in competition 
> with existing solutions :D)
>
> Beefing up CAs web infrastructures is what CAs have been doing so far 
> - AFAIK, however that comes at high operational costs that have to be 
> covered somehow :D I think that it will be useful to have an 
> alternative that can be as efficient (if not even more efficient), 
> distributed (info get closer to the client), and that comes at 
> (potentially) lower operational costs.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Cheers,
> Max
>
>
> On 10/23/17 3:13 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>> On 23 Oct 2017, at 13:54, Dr. Pala wrote:
>>
>>> we are currently working on specifying how to use DNS as a transport 
>>> protocol for revocation information for X509 certificates. In 
>>> particular, we are working on how to leverage the distributed nature 
>>> of DNS to efficiently (and at lower operational costs) distribute 
>>> OCSP responses to applications/devices/etc.
>>>
>>> We started this work sometime ago but never really had the time to 
>>> finish it. Now it seems we can focus more on the topic and would 
>>> like to discuss this work in a more public venue.
>>>
>>> We currently have two similar I-D submitted (that should probably be 
>>> re-edited and merged):
>>>
>>>  * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pala-odin/
>>>  * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pala-rea-ocsp-over-dns/
>>>
>>> EKR suggested that this may be another topic for the SEC-DISPATCH 
>>> meeting. Can we have 5-10 minutes for this @IETF100 ?
>>
>> These sound like "we want HTTP over UDP to save latency, so we'll 
>> just substitute DNS". That's certainly an option, but it hasn't been 
>> a popular route in the IETF. Are the busy CAs asking for this? Is 
>> there a reason why they can't just beef up their web infrastructure 
>> (like their customers are)?
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman
>
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Massimiliano Pala, Ph.D.
> OpenCA Labs Director
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