DPRIVE WG T. Reddy
Internet-Draft McAfee
Intended status: Standards Track D. Wing
Expires: September 8, 2020 Citrix
M. Richardson
Sandelman Software Works
M. Boucadair
Orange
March 7, 2020

A Bootstrapping Procedure to Discover and Authenticate DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS Servers
draft-reddy-dprive-bootstrap-dns-server-08

Abstract

This document specifies mechanisms to automatically bootstrap endpoints (e.g., hosts, Customer Equipment) to discover and authenticate DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by a local network.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Traditionally a caching DNS server has been provided by local networks. This provides benefits such as low latency to reach that DNS server (owing to its network proximity to the endpoint). However, if an endpoint is configured to use Internet-hosted or public DNS-over-TLS [RFC7858] or DNS-over-HTTPS [RFC8484] servers, any available local DNS server cannot serve DNS requests from local endpoints. If public DNS servers are used instead of using local DNS servers, some operational problems can occur such as those listed below:

If public DNS servers are used instead of using local DNS servers, the following discusses the impact on network-based security:

If the network security service fails to block DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS traffic, this can compromise the endpoint security; some of the potential security threats are listed below:

If the network security service successfully blocks DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS traffic, this can still compromise the endpoint security and privacy; some of the potential security threats are listed below:

In addition, the local network's DNS server is advertised using DHCP/RA which is insecure and also provides no mechanism to securely authenticate the DNS server. To overcome the above threats, this document specifies a mechanism to automatically bootstrap endpoints to discover and authenticate the DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by their local network. The overall procedure can be structured into the following steps:

Note: The strict and opportunistic privacy profiles as defined in [RFC8310] only applies to DNS-over-TLS protocol, there has been no such distinction made for DNS-over-HTTPS protocol.

2. Scope

The problems discussed in Section 1 will be encountered in Enterprise networks. Typically Enterprise networks do not assume that all devices in their network are managed by the IT team or Mobile Device Management (MDM) devices, especially in the quite common BYOD ("Bring Your Own Device") scenario. The mechanisms specified in this document can be used by BYOD devices to discover and authenticate DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by the Enterprise network. This mechanism can also be used by IoT devices (managed by IT team) after onboarding to discover and authenticate DNS- over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers provided by the Enterprise network.

WiFi as frequently deployed is vulnerable to various attacks ([Evil-Twin],[Krack] and [Dragonblood]). Because of these attacks, only cryptographically authenticated communications are trusted on WiFi networks. This means information provided by the network via DHCPv4, DHCPv6, or RA (e.g., NTP server, DNS server, default domain) are un-trusted because DHCP and RA are not authenticated.

The users have to indicate to their system in some way that they desire bootstrapping to be performed only when connecting to a specific network (e.g., organization for which a user works or a user works temporarily within another corporation), similar to the way users disable VPN connection in specific network (e.g., Enterprise network) and enable VPN connection by default in other networks. If the discovered DNS server meets the privacy preserving data policy requirements of the user, the user can select to use the discovered DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers. In addition, if the discovered DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS servers is pre-configured in the OS or browser, user can inform the system to use the servers in untrusted networks (e.g. coffee shops, airports etc.). It is strongly recommended to configure the DNS server to be used in untrusted networks provided the DNS server meets the privacy preserving data policy requirements of the user, offers malware filtering service and is pre-configured in the OS or browser.

3. Terminology

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119][RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

This document uses the terms defined in [RFC8499].

4. Bootstrapping Endpoint Devices

The following steps detail the mechanism to automatically bootstrap an endpoint with the local network's DNS server certificate:

  1. The endpoint authenticates to the local network and discovers the Enrollment over Secure Transport (EST) [RFC7030] server using the procedure discussed in Section 8.
  2. The endpoint establishes provisional TLS connection with that EST server, i.e., the endpoint provisionally accepts the unverified TLS server certificate. However, the endpoint MUST authenticate the EST server before it accepts the DNS server certificate. The endpoint either uses password-based authenticated key exchange (PAKE) with TLS 1.3 [I-D.barnes-tls-pake] as an authentication method or uses the mutual authentication protocol for HTTP [RFC8120] to authenticate the discovered EST server.

    As a reminder, PAKE is an authentication method that allows the use of usernames and passwords over unencrypted channels without revealing the passwords to an eavesdropper. Similarly, the mutual authentication for HTTP is based on PAKE and provides mutual authentication between an HTTP client and an HTTP server using username and password as credentials. The cryptographic algorithms to use with the mutual authentication protocol for HTTP are defined in [RFC8121].
  3. The endpoint needs to use PAKE scheme to perform authentication the first time it connects to an EST server. If the EST server authentication is successful, the server's identity can be used to authenticate subsequent TLS connections to that EST server. The endpoint configures the reference identifier for the EST server using the DNS-ID identifier type in the EST server certificate. On subsequent connections to the EST server, the endpoint MUST validate the EST server certificate using the Implict Trust Anchor database (i.e, the EST server certificate must pass PKIX certification path validation) and match the reference identifier against the EST server's identity according to the rules specified in Section 6.4 of [RFC6125].
  4. The endpoint learns the End-Entity certificates [RFC8295] from the EST server. The certificate provisioned to the DNS server in the local network will be treated as a End-Entity certificate. As a reminder, the End-Entity certificates must be validated by the endpoint using an authorized trust anchor (Section 3.2 of [RFC8295]). The endpoint needs to identify the certificate provisioned to the DNS server. The SRV-ID identifier type [RFC6125] within subjectAltName entry MUST be used to identify the DNS server certificate.

    For example, DNS server certificate will include SRV-ID "_domain-s.example.net" along with DNS-ID "example.net". The SRV service label "domain-s" is defined in Section 6 of [RFC7858]. As a reminder, the protocol component is not included in the SRV-ID [RFC4985].
  5. The endpoint configures the authentication domain name (ADN) (defined in [RFC8310]) for the DNS server from the DNS-ID identifier type within subjectAltName entry in the DNS server certificate. The DNS server certificate is associated with the ADN to be matched with the certificate given by the DNS server in TLS. To some extent, this approach is similar to certificate usage PKIX-EE(1) defined in [RFC7671].

Figure 1 illustrates a sequence diagram for bootstrapping an endpoint with the local network's DNS server certificate.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     
+----------+                                     +--------+  +--------+                               
| Endpoint |                                     |  EST   |  |  DNS   |   
|          |                                     | Server |  | Server |                     
+----------+                                     +--------+  +--------+                               
        | DNS-SD query to discover the EST server      |          |                                         
        |-------------------------------------------------------->|                                         
        |                                              |          |
        | optional: mDNS query to                      |          |
        |  discover the EST server                     |          |
        |--------------------------------------------->|          | 
        |                                              |          |                                         
        | Establish provisional TLS connection         |          |                                         
        |<-------------------------------------------->|          |                                         
        |                                              |          |                                         
        | PAKE scheme to authenticate the EST server   |          | 
        |<-------------------------------------------->|          |                                         
        |                                              |          |                                         
[Generate reference identifier for the EST server      |          |                                         
 to compare with the EST server certificate            |          |
 in subsequent TLS connections]                        |          |                           
        |                                              |          |                                         
        |      Get EE certificates                     |          |                                         
        |--------------------------------------------->|          |                                         
        |                                              |          |                                         
[Identify the DNS server certificate in EE             |          | 
 certificates to match with the certificate            |          |  
 by the DNS server in TLS handshake]                |          |                                          
                                                       |          |
[Configure ADN and associate DNS server certificate]   |          | 
        |                                              |          |                                         

Figure 1: Bootstrapping Endpoint Devices

5. Bootstrapping IoT Devices

The following steps explain the mechanism to automatically bootstrap IoT devices with local network's CA certificates and DNS server certificate:

6. DNS-over-(D)TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS Server Discovery Procedure

A DNS client discovers the DNS server in the local network supports DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS protocols by using the mechanism discussed in Section 6 of [I-D.btw-add-home]. If the endpoint has enabled strict privacy profile and access to the pre-configured public DNS servers is blocked, the DNS service won't be available to the endpoint and ultimately the endpoint cannot access Internet-reachable services. If the endpoint has enabled opportunistic privacy profile and access to the pre-configured public DNS servers is blocked, the endpoint will either fallback to an encrypted connection without authenticating the DNS server provided by the local network or fallback to clear text DNS.

7. Connection Handshake and Service Invocation

The DNS client initiates TLS handshake with the DNS server, the DNS server presents its certificate in ServerHello message, and the DNS client MUST match the DNS server certificate downloaded in Step 4 in Section 4 or Section 5 with the certificate provided by the DNS server in TLS handshake. If the match is successful, the DNS client MUST validate the server certificate using the Implicit Trust Anchor database (i.e., the DNS server certificate must pass PKIX certification path validation).

If the match is successful and server certificate is successfully validated, the client continues with the connection as normal. Otherwise, the client MUST treat the server certificate validation failure as a non-recoverable error. If the DNS client cannot reach or establish an authenticated and encrypted connection with the privacy-enabling DNS server provided by the local network, the DNS client can fallback to the privacy-enabling public DNS server.

8. EST Service Discovery Procedure

A EST client discovers the EST server in the local network by using DNS-based Service Discovery (DNS-SD) [RFC6763] or Multicast DNS (mDNS) [RFC6762]. The <Domain> portion specifies the DNS sub-domain where the service instance is registered. It may be "local.", indicating the mDNS local domain, or it may be a conventional domain name such as "example.com.". The <Service> portion of the EST service instance name MUST be "_est._tcp".

8.1. mDNS

A EST client application can proactively discover an EST server being advertised in the site by multicasting a PTR query to the following:

A EST server can send out gratuitous multicast DNS answer packets whenever it starts up, wakes from sleep, or detects a change in EST server configuration. EST client application can receive these gratuitous packets and cache information contained in them.

9. Network Reattachment

On subsequent attachments to the network, the endpoint discovers the privacy-enabling DNS server using the authentication domain name (configured in Step 5 of Section 4 or Section 5), initiates TLS handshake with the DNS server and follows the mechanism discussed in Section 7 to validate the DNS server certificate.

If the DNS server certificate is invalid (e.g., revoked or expired) or the procedure to discover the privacy-enabling DNS server fails (e.g. the domain name of the privacy-enabling DNS server has changed because the Enterprise network has switched to a public privacy-enabling DNS server capable of blocking access to malicious domains), the endpoint discovers and initiates TLS handshake with the EST server, and uses the validation techniques described in [RFC6125] to compare the reference identifier (created in Step 2 of Section 4 in this document) to the EST server certificate and verifies the entire certification path as per [RFC5280]. The endpoint then gets the DNS server certificate from the EST server. If the DNS-ID identifier type within subjectAltName entry in the DNS server certificate does not match the configured ADN, the ADN is replaced with the DNS-ID identifier type. The DNS server certificate associated with the ADN is replaced with the one provided by the EST server. If the ADN has changed, the endpoint discovers the privacy-enabling DNS server, initiates TLS handshake with the DNS server and follows the mechanism discussed in Section 7 to validate the DNS server certificate.

Figure 2 illustrates a sequence diagram for re-configuring an endpoint with ADN and local network's DNS server certificate on subsequent attachments to the network.

+----------+                                     +--------+  +--------+                               
| Endpoint |                                     |  EST   |  |  DNS   |   
|          |                                     | Server |  | Server |                     
+----------+                                     +--------+  +--------+                               
        | DNS-SD query to discover the EST server      |          |                                         
        |-------------------------------------------------------->|                                         
        |                                              |          |
        | optional: mDNS query to                      |          |
        | discover the EST server                      |          |
        |--------------------------------------------->|          | 
        |                                              |          |                                         
        | Establish TLS connection                     |          | 
        | and validate EST server certificate          |          |
        |<-------------------------------------------->|          |                                         
        |                                              |          |                                         
        |      Get EE certificates                     |          |                                         
        |<-------------------------------------------->|          |                                         
        |                                              |          |                                         
[Identify the DNS server certificate in EE             |          | 
 certificates to match with the certificate            |          |  
 by the DNS server in TLS handshake]                |          |                                          
                                                       |          |
[Re-configure ADN and associate DNS server certificate]|          | 
        |                                              |          |

Figure 2: Bootstrapping Endpoint Devices on subsequent attachments to the network

10. Privacy Considerations

[RFC7626] discusses DNS privacy considerations in both "on the wire" (Section 2.4 of [RFC7626]) and "in the server" (Section 2.5 of [RFC7626] contexts. The mechanism defined in [I-D.reddy-dprive-dprive-privacy-policy] can be used by the DNS server to communicate its privacy statement URL and filtering policy to a DNS client. This communication is cryptographically signed to attest to its authenticity. By evaluating the DNS privacy statement, filtering policy and the signatory, the user can choose to use the discovered DNS server if it meets privacy preserving data policy and filtering requirements of the user.

11. Security Considerations

The bootstrapping procedure to obtain the certificate of the local networks DNS server uses a client identity and password to authenticate the EST server using PAKE schemes. Security considerations such as those discussed in [I-D.barnes-tls-pake] or [RFC8120] and [RFC8121] need to be taken into consideration.

Users cannot be expected to enable or disable the bootstrapping or the discovery procedure as they switch networks. Thus, it is RECOMMENDED that users indicate to their system in some way that they desire bootstrapping to be performed when connecting to a specific network, similar to the way users disable VPN connection in specific network (e.g., Enterprise network) and enable VPN connection by default in other networks.

If an endpoint has enabled strict privacy profile, and the network security service blocks the traffic to the privacy-enabling public DNS server, a hard failure occurs and the user is notified. The user has a choice to switch to another network or if the user trusts the network, the user can enable strict privacy profile with the DNS-over-TLS or DNS-over-HTTPS server discovered in the network instead of downgrading to opportunistic privacy profile.

The primary attacks against the methods described in Section 6 are the ones that would lead to impersonation of a DNS server and spoofing the DNS response to indicate that the DNS server does not support any privacy-enabling protocols. To protect against DNS-vectored attacks, secured DNS (DNSSEC) can be used to ensure the validity of the DNS records received. Impersonation of the DNS server is prevented by validating the certificate presented by the DNS server. If the EST server conveys the DNS server certificate, but the DNS-SD lookup indicates that the DNS server does not support any privacy-enabling protocols, the client can detect the DNS response is spoofed.

If the browser or OS is pre-configured with a list of DNS servers where some perform malware filtering and others do not, an attacker can prevent contacting the preferred filtering DNS servers causing a downgrade attack to a non-filtering DNS server, which the attacker can leverage to deliver malware. To prevent such an attack, it is RECOMMENDED if any pre-configured DNS servers perform malware filtering that all pre-configured DNS servers perform malware filtering.

Related to the downgrade attack described in the previous paragraph, if the browser or OS is pre-configured to use a DNS server that filters malware, it MUST NOT use locally-learned DNS servers (e.g., learned via DHCP) unless they also perform malware filtering and also conform to the user's privacy policy.

Security considerations in [I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] need to be taken into consideration for IoT devices.

12. IANA Considerations

IANA is requested to allocate the SRV service name of "est".

13. Acknowledgments

Thanks to Joe Hildebrand, Harsha Joshi, Shashank Jain, Patrick McManus, Bob Harold, Livingood Jason, Winfield Alister, Eliot Lear, Stephane Bortzmeyer, Ted Lemon and Sara Dickinson for the discussion and comments.

14. References

14.1. Normative References

[I-D.btw-add-home] Boucadair, M., Reddy.K, T., Wing, D. and N. Cook, "DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS server Discovery and Deployment Considerations for Home and Mobile Networks", Internet-Draft draft-btw-add-home-01, March 2020.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997.
[RFC4985] Santesson, S., "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Subject Alternative Name for Expression of Service Name", RFC 4985, DOI 10.17487/RFC4985, August 2007.
[RFC5280] Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S., Housley, R. and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May 2008.
[RFC6125] Saint-Andre, P. and J. Hodges, "Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 6125, DOI 10.17487/RFC6125, March 2011.
[RFC6762] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Multicast DNS", RFC 6762, DOI 10.17487/RFC6762, February 2013.
[RFC6763] Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "DNS-Based Service Discovery", RFC 6763, DOI 10.17487/RFC6763, February 2013.
[RFC7030] Pritikin, M., Yee, P. and D. Harkins, "Enrollment over Secure Transport", RFC 7030, DOI 10.17487/RFC7030, October 2013.
[RFC7858] Hu, Z., Zhu, L., Heidemann, J., Mankin, A., Wessels, D. and P. Hoffman, "Specification for DNS over Transport Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 7858, DOI 10.17487/RFC7858, May 2016.
[RFC8121] Oiwa, Y., Watanabe, H., Takagi, H., Maeda, K., Hayashi, T. and Y. Ioku, "Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP: Cryptographic Algorithms Based on the Key Agreement Mechanism 3 (KAM3)", RFC 8121, DOI 10.17487/RFC8121, April 2017.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017.
[RFC8295] Turner, S., "EST (Enrollment over Secure Transport) Extensions", RFC 8295, DOI 10.17487/RFC8295, January 2018.
[RFC8484] Hoffman, P. and P. McManus, "DNS Queries over HTTPS (DoH)", RFC 8484, DOI 10.17487/RFC8484, October 2018.
[RFC8499] Hoffman, P., Sullivan, A. and K. Fujiwara, "DNS Terminology", BCP 219, RFC 8499, DOI 10.17487/RFC8499, January 2019.

14.2. Informative References

[CDN] "End-User Mapping: Next Generation Request Routing for Content Delivery", 2015.
[Dragonblood] The Unicode Consortium, "Dragonblood: Analyzing the Dragonfly Handshake of WPA3 and EAP-pwd"
[Evil-Twin] The Unicode Consortium, "Evil twin (wireless networks)"
[I-D.barnes-tls-pake] Barnes, R. and O. Friel, "Usage of PAKE with TLS 1.3", Internet-Draft draft-barnes-tls-pake-04, July 2018.
[I-D.ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra] Pritikin, M., Richardson, M., Eckert, T., Behringer, M. and K. Watsen, "Bootstrapping Remote Secure Key Infrastructures (BRSKI)", Internet-Draft draft-ietf-anima-bootstrapping-keyinfra-37, February 2020.
[I-D.reddy-dprive-dprive-privacy-policy] Reddy.K, T., Wing, D., Richardson, M. and M. Boucadair, "DNS Server Privacy Statement and Filtering Policy with Assertion Token", Internet-Draft draft-reddy-dprive-dprive-privacy-policy-03, March 2020.
[Krack] The Unicode Consortium, "Key Reinstallation Attacks", 2017.
[RFC2775] Carpenter, B., "Internet Transparency", RFC 2775, DOI 10.17487/RFC2775, February 2000.
[RFC7626] Bortzmeyer, S., "DNS Privacy Considerations", RFC 7626, DOI 10.17487/RFC7626, August 2015.
[RFC7671] Dukhovni, V. and W. Hardaker, "The DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) Protocol: Updates and Operational Guidance", RFC 7671, DOI 10.17487/RFC7671, October 2015.
[RFC7871] Contavalli, C., van der Gaast, W., Lawrence, D. and W. Kumari, "Client Subnet in DNS Queries", RFC 7871, DOI 10.17487/RFC7871, May 2016.
[RFC8106] Jeong, J., Park, S., Beloeil, L. and S. Madanapalli, "IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration", RFC 8106, DOI 10.17487/RFC8106, March 2017.
[RFC8120] Oiwa, Y., Watanabe, H., Takagi, H., Maeda, K., Hayashi, T. and Y. Ioku, "Mutual Authentication Protocol for HTTP", RFC 8120, DOI 10.17487/RFC8120, April 2017.
[RFC8310] Dickinson, S., Gillmor, D. and T. Reddy, "Usage Profiles for DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLS", RFC 8310, DOI 10.17487/RFC8310, March 2018.
[RFC8520] Lear, E., Droms, R. and D. Romascanu, "Manufacturer Usage Description Specification", RFC 8520, DOI 10.17487/RFC8520, March 2019.

Authors' Addresses

Tirumaleswar Reddy McAfee, Inc. Embassy Golf Link Business Park Bangalore, Karnataka 560071 India EMail: kondtir@gmail.com
Dan Wing Citrix Systems, Inc. USA EMail: dwing-ietf@fuggles.com
Michael C. Richardson Sandelman Software Works USA EMail: mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca
Mohamed Boucadair Orange Rennes, 35000 France EMail: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com