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Cryptographic public keys are frequently published, and their authenticity is demonstrated by certificates. A CERT resource record (RR) is defined so that such certificates and related certificate revocation lists can be stored in the Domain Name System (DNS).
This document obsoletes RFC 2538.
1.
Introduction
2.
The CERT Resource Record
2.1.
Certificate Type Values
2.2.
Text Representation of CERT RRs
2.3.
X.509 OIDs
3.
Appropriate Owner Names for CERT RRs
3.1.
Content-Based X.509 CERT RR Names
3.2.
Purpose-Based X.509 CERT RR Names
3.3.
Content-Based OpenPGP CERT RR Names
3.4.
Purpose-Based OpenPGP CERT RR Names
3.5.
Owner Names for IPKIX, ISPKI, IPGP, and IACPKIX
4.
Performance Considerations
5.
Contributors
6.
Acknowledgements
7.
Security Considerations
8.
IANA Considerations
9.
Changes since RFC 2538
10.
References
10.1.
Normative References
10.2.
Informative References
Appendix A.
Copying Conditions
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Author's Address
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Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements
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Public keys are frequently published in the form of a certificate, and their authenticity is commonly demonstrated by certificates and related certificate revocation lists (CRLs). A certificate is a binding, through a cryptographic digital signature, of a public key, a validity interval and/or conditions, and identity, authorization, or other information. A certificate revocation list is a list of certificates that are revoked, and of incidental information, all signed by the signer (issuer) of the revoked certificates. Examples are X.509 certificates/CRLs in the X.500 directory system or OpenPGP certificates/revocations used by OpenPGP software.
Section 2 specifies a CERT resource record (RR) for the storage of certificates in the Domain Name System [1] (Mockapetris, P., “Domain names - concepts and facilities,” November 1987.) [2] (Mockapetris, P., “Domain names - implementation and specification,” November 1987.).
Section 3 discusses appropriate owner names for CERT RRs.
Sections 4, 7, and 8 cover performance, security, and IANA considerations, respectively.
Section 9 explains the changes in this document compared to RFC 2538.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [3] (Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels,” March 1997.).
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The CERT resource record (RR) has the structure given below. Its RR type code is 37.
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| type | key tag |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| algorithm | /
+---------------+ certificate or CRL /
/ /
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|
The type field is the certificate type as defined in Section 2.1 below.
The key tag field is the 16-bit value computed for the key embedded in the certificate, using the RRSIG Key Tag algorithm described in Appendix B of [12] (Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, “Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions,” March 2005.). This field is used as an efficiency measure to pick which CERT RRs may be applicable to a particular key. The key tag can be calculated for the key in question, and then only CERT RRs with the same key tag need to be examined. Note that two different keys can have the same key tag. However, the key MUST be transformed to the format it would have as the public key portion of a DNSKEY RR before the key tag is computed. This is only possible if the key is applicable to an algorithm and complies to limits (such as key size) defined for DNS security. If it is not, the algorithm field MUST be zero and the tag field is meaningless and SHOULD be zero.
The algorithm field has the same meaning as the algorithm field in DNSKEY and RRSIG RRs [12] (Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, “Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions,” March 2005.), except that a zero algorithm field indicates that the algorithm is unknown to a secure DNS, which may simply be the result of the algorithm not having been standardized for DNSSEC [11] (Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, “DNS Security Introduction and Requirements,” March 2005.).
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The following values are defined or reserved:
Value Mnemonic Certificate Type
----- -------- ----------------
0 Reserved
1 PKIX X.509 as per PKIX
2 SPKI SPKI certificate
3 PGP OpenPGP packet
4 IPKIX The URL of an X.509 data object
5 ISPKI The URL of an SPKI certificate
6 IPGP The fingerprint and URL of an OpenPGP packet
7 ACPKIX Attribute Certificate
8 IACPKIX The URL of an Attribute Certificate
9-252 Available for IANA assignment
253 URI URI private
254 OID OID private
255 Reserved
256-65279 Available for IANA assignment
65280-65534 Experimental
65535 Reserved
These values represent the initial content of the IANA registry; see Section 8.
The PKIX type is reserved to indicate an X.509 certificate conforming to the profile defined by the IETF PKIX working group [8] (Housley, R., Polk, W., Ford, W., and D. Solo, “Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile,” April 2002.). The certificate section will start with a one-octet unsigned OID length and then an X.500 OID indicating the nature of the remainder of the certificate section (see Section 2.3, below). (NOTE: X.509 certificates do not include their X.500 directory-type-designating OID as a prefix.)
The SPKI and ISPKI types are reserved to indicate the SPKI certificate format [15] (Ellison, C., Frantz, B., Lampson, B., Rivest, R., Thomas, B., and T. Ylonen, “SPKI Certificate Theory,” September 1999.), for use when the SPKI documents are moved from experimental status. The format for these two CERT RR types will need to be specified later.
The PGP type indicates an OpenPGP packet as described in [5] (Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., and R. Thayer, “OpenPGP Message Format,” November 1998.) and its extensions and successors. This is used to transfer public key material and revocation signatures. The data is binary and MUST NOT be encoded into an ASCII armor. An implementation SHOULD process transferable public keys as described in Section 10.1 of [5] (Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., and R. Thayer, “OpenPGP Message Format,” November 1998.), but it MAY handle additional OpenPGP packets.
The ACPKIX type indicates an Attribute Certificate format [9] (Farrell, S. and R. Housley, “An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization,” April 2002.).
The IPKIX and IACPKIX types indicate a URL that will serve the content that would have been in the "certificate, CRL, or URL" field of the corresponding type (PKIX or ACPKIX, respectively).
The IPGP type contains both an OpenPGP fingerprint for the key in question, as well as a URL. The certificate portion of the IPGP CERT RR is defined as a one-octet fingerprint length, followed by the OpenPGP fingerprint, followed by the URL. The OpenPGP fingerprint is calculated as defined in RFC 2440 [5] (Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., and R. Thayer, “OpenPGP Message Format,” November 1998.). A zero-length fingerprint or a zero-length URL are legal, and indicate URL-only IPGP data or fingerprint-only IPGP data, respectively. A zero-length fingerprint and a zero-length URL are meaningless and invalid.
The IPKIX, ISPKI, IPGP, and IACPKIX types are known as "indirect". These types MUST be used when the content is too large to fit in the CERT RR and MAY be used at the implementer's discretion. They SHOULD NOT be used where the DNS message is 512 octets or smaller and could thus be expected to fit a UDP packet.
The URI private type indicates a certificate format defined by an absolute URI. The certificate portion of the CERT RR MUST begin with a NUL-terminated URI [10] (Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax,” January 2005.) and the data after the NUL is the private format certificate itself. The URI SHOULD be such that a retrieval from it will lead to documentation on the format of the certificate. Recognition of private certificate types need not be based on URI equality but can use various forms of pattern matching so that, for example, subtype or version information can also be encoded into the URI.
The OID private type indicates a private format certificate specified by an ISO OID prefix. The certificate section will start with a one-octet unsigned OID length and then a BER-encoded OID indicating the nature of the remainder of the certificate section. This can be an X.509 certificate format or some other format. X.509 certificates that conform to the IETF PKIX profile SHOULD be indicated by the PKIX type, not the OID private type. Recognition of private certificate types need not be based on OID equality but can use various forms of pattern matching such as OID prefix.
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The RDATA portion of a CERT RR has the type field as an unsigned decimal integer or as a mnemonic symbol as listed in Section 2.1, above.
The key tag field is represented as an unsigned decimal integer.
The algorithm field is represented as an unsigned decimal integer or a mnemonic symbol as listed in [12] (Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S. Rose, “Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions,” March 2005.).
The certificate/CRL portion is represented in base 64 [16] (Josefsson, S., “The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings,” July 2003.) and may be divided into any number of white-space-separated substrings, down to single base-64 digits, which are concatenated to obtain the full signature. These substrings can span lines using the standard parenthesis.
Note that the certificate / CRL portion may have internal sub-fields, but these do not appear in the master file representation. For example, with type 254, there will be an OID size, an OID, and then the certificate/CRL proper. However, only a single logical base-64 string will appear in the text representation.
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OIDs have been defined in connection with the X.500 directory for user certificates, certification authority certificates, revocations of certification authority, and revocations of user certificates. The following table lists the OIDs, their BER encoding, and their length-prefixed hex format for use in CERT RRs:
id-at-userCertificate
= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) ds(5) at(4) 36 }
== 0x 03 55 04 24
id-at-cACertificate
= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) ds(5) at(4) 37 }
== 0x 03 55 04 25
id-at-authorityRevocationList
= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) ds(5) at(4) 38 }
== 0x 03 55 04 26
id-at-certificateRevocationList
= { joint-iso-ccitt(2) ds(5) at(4) 39 }
== 0x 03 55 04 27
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It is recommended that certificate CERT RRs be stored under a domain name related to their subject, i.e., the name of the entity intended to control the private key corresponding to the public key being certified. It is recommended that certificate revocation list CERT RRs be stored under a domain name related to their issuer.
Following some of the guidelines below may result in DNS names with characters that require DNS quoting as per Section 5.1 of RFC 1035 [2] (Mockapetris, P., “Domain names - implementation and specification,” November 1987.).
The choice of name under which CERT RRs are stored is important to clients that perform CERT queries. In some situations, the clients may not know all information about the CERT RR object it wishes to retrieve. For example, a client may not know the subject name of an X.509 certificate, or the email address of the owner of an OpenPGP key. Further, the client might only know the hostname of a service that uses X.509 certificates or the Key ID of an OpenPGP key.
Therefore, two owner name guidelines are defined: content-based owner names and purpose-based owner names. A content-based owner name is derived from the content of the CERT RR data; for example, the Subject field in an X.509 certificate or the User ID field in OpenPGP keys. A purpose-based owner name is a name that a client retrieving CERT RRs ought to know already; for example, the host name of an X.509 protected service or the Key ID of an OpenPGP key. The content-based and purpose-based owner name may be the same; for example, when a client looks up a key based on the From: address of an incoming email.
Implementations SHOULD use the purpose-based owner name guidelines described in this document and MAY use CNAME RRs at content-based owner names (or other names), pointing to the purpose-based owner name.
Note that this section describes an application-based mapping from the name space used in a certificate to the name space used by DNS. The DNS does not infer any relationship amongst CERT resource records based on similarities or differences of the DNS owner name(s) of CERT resource records. For example, if multiple labels are used when mapping from a CERT identifier to a domain name, then care must be taken in understanding wildcard record synthesis.
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Some X.509 versions, such as the PKIX profile of X.509 [8] (Housley, R., Polk, W., Ford, W., and D. Solo, “Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile,” April 2002.), permit multiple names to be associated with subjects and issuers under "Subject Alternative Name" and "Issuer Alternative Name". For example, the PKIX profile has such Alternate Names with an ASN.1 specification as follows:
GeneralName ::= CHOICE {
otherName [0] OtherName,
rfc822Name [1] IA5String,
dNSName [2] IA5String,
x400Address [3] ORAddress,
directoryName [4] Name,
ediPartyName [5] EDIPartyName,
uniformResourceIdentifier [6] IA5String,
iPAddress [7] OCTET STRING,
registeredID [8] OBJECT IDENTIFIER }
The recommended locations of CERT storage are as follows, in priority order:
Example 1: An X.509v3 certificate is issued to /CN=John Doe /DC=Doe/DC=com/DC=xy/O=Doe Inc/C=XY/ with Subject Alternative Names of (a) string "John (the Man) Doe", (b) domain name john-doe.com, and (c) URI <https://www.secure.john-doe.com:8080/>. The storage locations recommended, in priority order, would be
Example 2: An X.509v3 certificate is issued to /CN=James Hacker/L=Basingstoke/O=Widget Inc/C=GB/ with Subject Alternate names of (a) domain name widget.foo.example, (b) IPv4 address 10.251.13.201, and (c) string "James Hacker <hacker@mail.widget.foo.example>". The storage locations recommended, in priority order, would be
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Due to the difficulty for clients that do not already possess a certificate to reconstruct the content-based owner name, purpose-based owner names are recommended in this section. Recommendations for purpose-based owner names vary per scenario. The following table summarizes the purpose-based X.509 CERT RR owner name guidelines for use with S/MIME [17] (Ramsdell, B., “Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification,” July 2004.), SSL/TLS [13] (Dierks, T. and C. Allen, “The TLS Protocol Version 1.0,” January 1999.), and IPsec [14] (Kent, S. and K. Seo, “Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol,” December 2005.):
Scenario Owner name
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S/MIME Certificate Standard translation of an RFC 2822 email
address. Example: An S/MIME certificate for
"postmaster@example.org" will use a standard
hostname translation of the owner name,
"postmaster.example.org".
TLS Certificate Hostname of the TLS server.
IPsec Certificate Hostname of the IPsec machine and/or, for IPv4
or IPv6 addresses, the fully qualified domain
name in the appropriate reverse domain.
An alternate approach for IPsec is to store raw public keys [18] (Richardson, M., “A Method for Storing IPsec Keying Material in DNS,” March 2005.).
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OpenPGP signed keys (certificates) use a general character string User ID [5] (Callas, J., Donnerhacke, L., Finney, H., and R. Thayer, “OpenPGP Message Format,” November 1998.). However, it is recommended by OpenPGP that such names include the RFC 2822 [7] (Resnick, P., “Internet Message Format,” April 2001.) email address of the party, as in "Leslie Example <Leslie@host.example>". If such a format is used, the CERT ought to be under the standard translation of the email address into a domain name, which would be leslie.host.example in this case. If no RFC 2822 name can be extracted from the string name, no specific domain name is recommended.
If a user has more than one email address, the CNAME type can be used to reduce the amount of data stored in the DNS. For example:
$ORIGIN example.org. smith IN CERT PGP 0 0 <OpenPGP binary> john.smith IN CNAME smith js IN CNAME smith
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Applications that receive an OpenPGP packet containing encrypted or signed data but do not know the email address of the sender will have difficulties constructing the correct owner name and cannot use the content-based owner name guidelines. However, these clients commonly know the key fingerprint or the Key ID. The key ID is found in OpenPGP packets, and the key fingerprint is commonly found in auxiliary data that may be available. In this case, use of an owner name identical to the key fingerprint and the key ID expressed in hexadecimal [16] (Josefsson, S., “The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings,” July 2003.) is recommended. For example:
$ORIGIN example.org. 0424D4EE81A0E3D119C6F835EDA21E94B565716F IN CERT PGP ... F835EDA21E94B565716F IN CERT PGP ... B565716F IN CERT PGP ...
If the same key material is stored for several owner names, the use of CNAME may help avoid data duplication. Note that CNAME is not always applicable, because it maps one owner name to the other for all purposes, which may be sub-optimal when two keys with the same Key ID are stored.
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These types are stored under the same owner names, both purpose- and content-based, as the PKIX, SPKI, PGP, and ACPKIX types.
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The Domain Name System (DNS) protocol was designed for small transfers, typically below 512 octets. While larger transfers will perform correctly and work is underway to make larger transfers more efficient, it is still advisable at this time that every reasonable effort be made to minimize the size of certificates stored within the DNS. Steps that can be taken may include using the fewest possible optional or extension fields and using short field values for necessary variable-length fields.
The RDATA field in the DNS protocol may only hold data of size 65535 octets (64kb) or less. This means that each CERT RR MUST NOT contain more than 64kb of payload, even if the corresponding certificate or certificate revocation list is larger. This document addresses this by defining "indirect" data types for each normal type.
Deploying CERT RRs to support digitally signed email changes the access patterns of DNS lookups from per-domain to per-user. If digitally signed email and a key/certificate lookup based on CERT RRs are deployed on a wide scale, this may lead to an increased DNS load, with potential performance and cache effectiveness consequences. Whether or not this load increase will be noticeable is not known.
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The majority of this document is copied verbatim from RFC 2538, by Donald Eastlake 3rd and Olafur Gudmundsson.
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Thanks to David Shaw and Michael Graff for their contributions to earlier works that motivated, and served as inspiration for, this document.
This document was improved by suggestions and comments from Olivier Dubuisson, Scott Hollenbeck, Russ Housley, Peter Koch, Olaf M. Kolkman, Ben Laurie, Edward Lewis, John Loughney, Allison Mankin, Douglas Otis, Marcos Sanz, Pekka Savola, Jason Sloderbeck, Samuel Weiler, Florian Weimer, and the IANA. No doubt the list is incomplete. We apologize to anyone we left out.
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By definition, certificates contain their own authenticating signatures. Thus, it is reasonable to store certificates in non-secure DNS zones or to retrieve certificates from DNS with DNS security checking not implemented or deferred for efficiency. The results may be trusted if the certificate chain is verified back to a known trusted key and this conforms with the user's security policy.
Alternatively, if certificates are retrieved from a secure DNS zone with DNS security checking enabled and are verified by DNS security, the key within the retrieved certificate may be trusted without verifying the certificate chain if this conforms with the user's security policy.
If an organization chooses to issue certificates for its employees, placing CERT RR's in the DNS by owner name, and if DNSSEC (with NSEC) is in use, it is possible for someone to enumerate all employees of the organization. This is usually not considered desirable, for the same reason that enterprise phone listings are not often publicly published and are even marked confidential.
Using the URI type introduces another level of indirection that may open a new vulnerability. One method of securing that indirection is to include a hash of the certificate in the URI itself.
If DNSSEC is used, then the non-existence of a CERT RR and, consequently, certificates or revocation lists can be securely asserted. Without DNSSEC, this is not possible.
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The IANA has created a new registry for CERT RR: certificate types. The initial contents of this registry is:
Decimal Type Meaning Reference
------- ---- ------- ---------
0 Reserved RFC 4398
1 PKIX X.509 as per PKIX RFC 4398
2 SPKI SPKI certificate RFC 4398
3 PGP OpenPGP packet RFC 4398
4 IPKIX The URL of an X.509 data object RFC 4398
5 ISPKI The URL of an SPKI certificate RFC 4398
6 IPGP The fingerprint and URL RFC 4398
of an OpenPGP packet
7 ACPKIX Attribute Certificate RFC 4398
8 IACPKIX The URL of an Attribute RFC 4398
Certificate
9-252 Available for IANA assignment
by IETF Standards action
253 URI URI private RFC 4398
254 OID OID private RFC 4398
255 Reserved RFC 4398
256-65279 Available for IANA assignment
by IETF Consensus
65280-65534 Experimental RFC 4398
65535 Reserved RFC 4398
Certificate types 0x0000 through 0x00FF (255) and 0xFF00 (65280) through 0xFFFF (65535) can only be assigned by an IETF standards action [6] (Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, “Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs,” October 1998.). This document assigns 0x0001 through 0x0008 and 0x00FD (253) and 0x00FE (254). Certificate types 0x0100 (256) through 0xFEFF (65279) are assigned through IETF Consensus [6] (Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, “Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs,” October 1998.) based on RFC documentation of the certificate type. The availability of private types under 0x00FD (253) and 0x00FE (254) ought to satisfy most requirements for proprietary or private types.
The CERT RR reuses the DNS Security Algorithm Numbers registry. In particular, the CERT RR requires that algorithm number 0 remain reserved, as described in Section 2. The IANA will reference the CERT RR as a user of this registry and value 0, in particular.
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| [13] | Dierks, T. and C. Allen, “The TLS Protocol Version 1.0,” RFC 2246, January 1999. |
| [14] | Kent, S. and K. Seo, “Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol,” RFC 4301, December 2005. |
| [15] | Ellison, C., Frantz, B., Lampson, B., Rivest, R., Thomas, B., and T. Ylonen, “SPKI Certificate Theory,” RFC 2693, September 1999. |
| [16] | Josefsson, S., “The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings,” RFC 3548, July 2003. |
| [17] | Ramsdell, B., “Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.1 Message Specification,” RFC 3851, July 2004. |
| [18] | Richardson, M., “A Method for Storing IPsec Keying Material in DNS,” RFC 4025, March 2005. |
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