Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Gutmann
William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Would this be the DHCP working group that on at least 2 occasions when I was >there, insisted that secure DHCP wouldn't require a secret, since DHCP isn't >supposed to require "configuration"? Given that their goal is zero-configuration networkin

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-30 Thread Steve Furlong
On Monday 30 June 2003 20:59, Morlock Elloi wrote: > There is no such thing as "automatic security." That's an oxymoron. > > Any system that is "secure" without the ongoing burn of end-user > brain cycles is subject to more-or-less easy subversion [a corollary > of this is that "masses" will never

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-30 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 01:05 PM 6/30/03 -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: >"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote: >> >> I can pretty much guarantee that the IETF will never standardize that, >> except possibly in conjunction with authenticated dhcp. >> >Would this be the DHCP working group that on at least 2 occasions >when I

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-30 Thread Morlock Elloi
> "security", but having both the user and administrator configure a per > host secret was apparently out of the question. There is no such thing as "automatic security." That's an oxymoron. Any system that is "secure" without the ongoing burn of end-user brain cycles is subject to more-or-less e

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Josefsson writes: > >Of course, everything fails if you ALSO get your DNSSEC root key from > >the DHCP server, but in this case you shouldn't expect to be secure. > >I wouldn't be surprised if some people suggest pushing the DNS

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC NOT

2003-06-30 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Josefsson writes: >Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>* Your laptop see and uses the name "yahoo.com.attackersdomain.com". >>> You may be able to verify this using your DNSSEC root key, if the >>> attackersdomain.com people have set up DNSSEC for

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC NOT

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>* Your laptop see and uses the name "yahoo.com.attackersdomain.com". >> You may be able to verify this using your DNSSEC root key, if the >> attackersdomain.com people have set up DNSSEC for their spoofed >> entries, but unless you are using bad sof

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:49 PM 06/29/2003 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: No, I believe only one of the following situations can occur: * Your laptop see and uses the name "yahoo.com", and the DNS server translate them into yahoo.com.attackersdomain.com. If your laptop knows the DNSSEC root key, the attacker cann

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Josefsson writes: > >Of course, everything fails if you ALSO get your DNSSEC root key from >the DHCP server, but in this case you shouldn't expect to be secure. >I wouldn't be surprised if some people suggest pushing the DNSSEC root >key via DHCP though, becau

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bill Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 11:15 PM 06/28/2003 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Stewart writes: >> >This looks like it has the ability to work around DNSSEC. >> >Somebody trying to verify that they'd correctly reached yahoo.com >> >would in

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Stewart
At 11:15 PM 06/28/2003 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Stewart writes: >This looks like it has the ability to work around DNSSEC. >Somebody trying to verify that they'd correctly reached yahoo.com >would instead verify that they'd correctly reached >yahoo.com.a

Re: Attacking networks using DHCP, DNS - probably kills DNSSEC

2003-06-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Stewart writes: >Somebody did an interesting attack on a cable network's customers. >They cracked the cable company's DHCP server, got it to provide a >"Connection-specific DNS suffic" pointing to a machine they owned, >and also told it to use their DNS server.