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Consequences of compromised zone keys in DNSSEC

Gilles Guette

Abstract

The Domain Name System is a distributed tree-based database. The DNS protocol is largely used to translate a human readable machine name into an IP address. The DNS security extensions (DNSSEC) has been designed to protect the DNS protocol. DNSSEC uses public key cryptography and digital signatures. A secure DNS zone owns at least a key pair (public/private) to provide two security services: data integrity and authentication. To trust some DNS data, a DNS client has to verify the signature of this data with the right zone key. This verification is based on the establishment of a chain of trust between secure zones. To build this chain of trust, a DNSSEC client needs a secure entry point: a zone key configured as trusted in the client. And then, the client must find a secure path from a secure entry point to the queried DNS resource. Zone keys are critical in DNSSEC and are used in every steps of a name resolution. In this report, we present a study on consequences of a compromised key in DNSSEC. We describe compromised key attacks and we present current defenses.

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inria-00070172 , version 1 (19-05-2006)

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Gilles Guette. Consequences of compromised zone keys in DNSSEC. [Research Report] RR-5854, INRIA. 2006, pp.13. ⟨inria-00070172⟩
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