7218
PROPOSED STANDARD
Adding Acronyms to Simplify Conversations about DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
Authors: O. Gudmundsson
Date: April 2014
Area: sec
Working Group: dane
Stream: IETF
Updates:
RFC 6698
Abstract
Experience has shown that people get confused when discussing the three numeric fields of the TLSA record. This document specifies descriptive acronyms for the three numeric fields in TLSA records. This document updates the format of the IANA registry created by RFC 6698.
RFC 7218
PROPOSED STANDARD
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) O. Gudmundsson
Request for Comments: 7218 Shinkuro Inc.
Updates: <a href="./rfc6698">6698</a> April 2014
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
<span class="h1">Adding Acronyms to Simplify Conversations about</span>
<span class="h1">DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)</span>
Abstract
Experience has shown that people get confused when discussing the
three numeric fields of the TLSA record. This document specifies
descriptive acronyms for the three numeric fields in TLSA records.
This document updates the format of the IANA registry created by <a href="./rfc6698">RFC</a>
<a href="./rfc6698">6698</a>.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in <a href="./rfc5741#section-2">Section 2 of RFC 5741</a>.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
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Table of Contents
<a href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-2">2</a>
<a href="#section-2">2</a>. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-2">2</a>
<a href="#section-2.1">2.1</a>. TLSA Certificate Usages Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-3">3</a>
<a href="#section-2.2">2.2</a>. TLSA Selectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-3">3</a>
<a href="#section-2.3">2.3</a>. TLSA Matching Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-3">3</a>. Examples of Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-3.1">3.1</a>. TLSA Records Using/Displaying the Acronyms . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-3.2">3.2</a>. Acronym Use in a Specification Example . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-4">4</a>. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-5">5</a>. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-4">4</a>
<a href="#section-6">6</a>. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-5">5</a>
<a href="#section-6.1">6.1</a>. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-5">5</a>
<a href="#section-6.2">6.2</a>. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . <a href="#page-5">5</a>
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>
During discussions on how to add DNS-Based Authentication of Named
Entities (DANE) [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] technology to new protocols and services,
people were repeatedly confused as to what the numeric values stood
for and even the order of the fields of a TLSA record (note that TLSA
is not an acronym but a name). This document updates the IANA
registry definition for the TLSA record to add a column containing an
acronym for each specified field, in order to reduce confusion. This
document does not change the DANE protocol in any way.
It is expected that DANE parsers in applications and DNS software can
adopt parsing the acronyms for each field.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-2" href="#section-2">2</a>. IANA Considerations</span>
This document applies to the "DNS-Based Authentication of Named
Entities (DANE) Parameters" registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/dane-parameters">http://www.iana.org/</a>
<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/dane-parameters">assignments/dane-parameters</a>>. IANA has added a column with an
acronym to each of the sub-registries.
[<a id="ref-RFC6698">RFC6698</a>] and this document are the referenced documents for the
three sub-registries.
As these acronyms are offered for human consumption, case does not
matter; it is expected that software that parses TLSA records will
handle upper-, mixed-, or lower-case characters as input.
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<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-2.1" href="#section-2.1">2.1</a>. TLSA Certificate Usages Registry</span>
The reference for this registry has been updated to include both
[<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] and this document.
+-------+----------+--------------------------------+-------------+
| Value | Acronym | Short Description | Reference |
+-------+----------+--------------------------------+-------------+
| 0 | PKIX-TA | CA constraint | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 1 | PKIX-EE | Service certificate constraint | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 2 | DANE-TA | Trust anchor assertion | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 3 | DANE-EE | Domain-issued certificate | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 4-254 | | Unassigned | |
| 255 | PrivCert | Reserved for Private Use | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
+-------+----------+--------------------------------+-------------+
Table 1: TLSA Certificate Usages
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-2.2" href="#section-2.2">2.2</a>. TLSA Selectors</span>
The reference for this registry has been updated to include both
[<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] and this document.
+-------+---------+--------------------------+-------------+
| Value | Acronym | Short Description | Reference |
+-------+---------+--------------------------+-------------+
| 0 | Cert | Full certificate | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 1 | SPKI | SubjectPublicKeyInfo | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 2-254 | | Unassigned | |
| 255 | PrivSel | Reserved for Private Use | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
+-------+---------+--------------------------+-------------+
Table 2: TLSA Selectors
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<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-2.3" href="#section-2.3">2.3</a>. TLSA Matching Types</span>
The reference for this registry has been updated to include both
[<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] and this document.
+-------+-----------+--------------------------+-------------+
| Value | Acronym | Short Description | Reference |
+-------+-----------+--------------------------+-------------+
| 0 | Full | No hash used | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
| 1 | SHA2-256 | 256 bit hash by SHA2 | [<a href="./rfc6234" title=""US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)"">RFC6234</a>] |
| 2 | SHA2-512 | 512 bit hash by SHA2 | [<a href="./rfc6234" title=""US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)"">RFC6234</a>] |
| 3-254 | | Unassigned | |
| 255 | PrivMatch | Reserved for Private Use | [<a href="./rfc6698" title=""The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol: TLSA"">RFC6698</a>] |
+-------+-----------+--------------------------+-------------+
Table 3: TLSA Matching Types
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-3" href="#section-3">3</a>. Examples of Usage</span>
Two examples are described below.
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-3.1" href="#section-3.1">3.1</a>. TLSA Records Using/Displaying the Acronyms</span>
_666._tcp.first.example. TLSA PKIX-TA CERT SHA2-512 {blob}
_666._tcp.second.example. TLSA DANE-TA SPKI SHA2-256 {blob}
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-3.2" href="#section-3.2">3.2</a>. Acronym Use in a Specification Example</span>
Protocol FOO only allows TLSA records using PKIX-EE and DANE-EE, with
selector SPKI, and using SHA2-512.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-4" href="#section-4">4</a>. Security Considerations</span>
This document only changes registry fields and does not change the
behavior of any protocol. The hope is to reduce confusion, which
would lead to better specification and operations.
<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-5" href="#section-5">5</a>. Acknowledgements</span>
Scott Schmit offered really good suggestions to decrease the
possibility of confusion. Viktor Dukhovni provided comments from the
expert point of view. Jim Schaad, Wes Hardaker, and Paul Hoffman
provided feedback during WGLC. Dan Romascanu and Tobias Gondrom
pointed out a few defects during the IESG last call.
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<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" id="section-6" href="#section-6">6</a>. References</span>
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.1" href="#section-6.1">6.1</a>. Normative References</span>
[<a id="ref-RFC6698">RFC6698</a>] Hoffman, P. and J. Schlyter, "The DNS-Based Authentication
of Named Entities (DANE) Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Protocol: TLSA", <a href="./rfc6698">RFC 6698</a>, August 2012.
<span class="h3"><a class="selflink" id="section-6.2" href="#section-6.2">6.2</a>. Informative References</span>
[<a id="ref-RFC6234">RFC6234</a>] Eastlake, D. and T. Hansen, "US Secure Hash Algorithms
(SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)", <a href="./rfc6234">RFC 6234</a>, May 2011.
Author's Address
Olafur Gudmundsson
Shinkuro Inc.
4922 Fairmont Av, Suite 250
Bethesda, MD 20814
USA
EMail: [email protected]
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