Yes, the whole RRSet is always signed.  Signing individual records would not 
protect against attacks stripping individual records and their RRSIGs.

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý
ond...@isc.org

> On 2 Jul 2019, at 19:34, Josh Kuo <josh....@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This may not be the right place to ask, if this is a better question asked in 
> a different list, please let me know.
> 
> I am curious as to how BIND generates and processes DS RRSIG, and this may 
> not be unique to BIND, since I've seen this behavior across multiple vendors. 
> From the following:
> 
> $ dig example.com. DS +dnssec +nocrypto 
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.12.2-P2 <<>> example.com. DS +dnssec +nocrypto
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48102
> ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;example.com. IN      DS
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      43547 8 2 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      31406 8 1 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      31406 8 2 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      31589 8 1 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      31589 8 2 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      DS      43547 8 1 [omitted]
> example.com.  84558   IN      RRSIG   DS 8 2 86400 20190709042256 
> 20190702031256 3800 com. [omitted]
> 
> ;; Query time: 228 msec
> ;; SERVER: 10.0.22.1#53(10.0.22.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jul 03 01:27:42 PST 2019
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 455
> 
> There are 6 DS records total, but only 1 RRSIG. This leads me to believe that 
> the single RRSIG is generated by somehow concatenating all DS records 
> together. This then leads me to believe that the validating resolver needs to 
> process _all_ DS records, not just the ones whose key tag matches the child 
> zone's KSK. Is this true? It seems like a small overhead in the grand scheme 
> of things, but that seems inefficient, if multiple DS records are left at the 
> parent zone after a couple of key rollovers.
> 
> Any information on this would be appreciated.
> 
> -Josh
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