Network Working Group M. Reynolds Internet-Draft BBN Updates: [ID.sidr-res-certs] S. Turner Intended Status: Standards Track IECA Expires: January 28, 2012 July 27, 2011 A Profile for BGPSEC Router Certificates, Certificate Revocation Lists, and Certification Requests draft-turner-sidr-bgpsec-pki-profiles-01 Abstract This document defines a standard profile for X.509 certificates for the purposes of supporting validation of Autonomous System (AS) paths in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), as part of an extension to that protocol known as BGPSEC. BGP is a critical component for the proper operation of the Internet as a whole. The BGPSEC protocol is under development as a component to address the requirement to provide security for the BGP protocol. The goal of BGPSEC is to design a protocol for full AS path validation based on the use of strong cryptographic primitives. The end-entity (EE) certificates specified by this profile are issued under Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Certification Authority (CA) certificates, containing the AS number extension, to routers within the Autonomous System (AS). The certificate asserts that the router(s) holding the private key are authorized to send out secure route advertisements on behalf of the specified AS. This document also profiles the Certificate Revocation List (CRL), profiles the format of certification requests, and specifies Relying Party certificate path validation procedures. The document extends the RPKI; therefore, this documents updates the RPKI Resource Certificates Profile (draft-ietf-sidr-res-certs). Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. 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Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. 1. Introduction This document defines a profile for X.509 end-entity (EE) certificates [RFC5280] for use in the context of certification of Autonomous System (AS) paths in the Border Gateway Protocol Security (BGPSEC) protocol. Such certificates are termed "BGPSEC Router Certificates". The holder of the private key associated with a BGPSEC Router Certificate is authorized to send secure route advertisements (BGPSEC UPDATEs) on behalf of the AS named in the certificate. That is, a router holding the private key may send to its BGP peers, route advertisements that contain the specified AS number as the last item in the AS PATH attribute. A key property that BGPSEC will provide is that every AS along the AS PATH can verify that the other ASes along the path have authorized the advertisement of the given route (to the next AS along the AS PATH). This document is a profile of [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile], which is a profile of [RFC5280], and it updates [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile]. It establishes requirements imposed on a Resource Certificate that is used as a BGPSEC Router Certificate, i.e., it defines constraints for certificate fields and extensions for the certificate to be valid in this context. This document also profiles the Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and certification requests. Finally, this document specifies the Relying Party (RP) certificate path validation procedures. 1.1. Terminology It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the terms and concepts described in "A Profile for X.509 PKIX Resource Certificates" [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile], "BGPSEC Protocol Specification" [ID.sidr- bgpsec-protocol], "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)" [RFC4271], "BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis" [RFC4272], "Considerations in Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 2] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 Validating the Path in BGP" [RFC5123], and "Capability Advertisement with BGP-4" [RFC5492]. 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 [RFC2119]. 2. Describing Resources in Certificates Figure 1 depicts some of the entities in the RPKI and some of the products generated by RPKI entities. IANA issues a Certification Authority (CA) to a Regional Internet Registries (RIR). The RIR, in turn, issues a CA certificate to an Internet Service Providers (ISP). The ISP in turn issues End-Entity (EE) Certificates to itself as well as CRLs. These certificates are referred to as "Resource Certificates", and are profiled in [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile]. The [ID.sidr-arch] envisioned using Resource Certificates to generate Manifests [ID.sidr-rpki-manifests] and Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) [ID.sidr-rpki-roa-format]. ROAs and Manifests also include the Resource Certificates used to sign them. +---------+ +------+ | CA Cert |---| IANA | +---------+ +------+ \ +---------+ +-----+ | CA Cert |---| RIR | +---------+ +-----+ \ +---------+ +-----+ | CA Cert |---| ISP | +---------+ +-----+ / | | | +-----+ / | | | +-----+ | CRL |--+ | | +---| ROA | +-----+ | | +-----+ | | +----------+ +----+ | +---| Manifest | +-| EE |---+ +----------+ | +----+ +-----+ Figure 1 This document defines another type of Resource Certificate, which is referred to as a "BGPSEC Router Certificate". The purpose of this certificate is explained in Section 1 and falls within the scope of Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 3] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 appropriate uses defined within [ID.sidr-cp]. The issuance of BGPSEC Router Certificates has minimal impact on RPKI CAs because the RPKI CA certificate and CRL profile remain unchanged (i.e., they are as specified in [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile]). Further, the algorithms used to generate RPKI CA certificates that issue the BGPSEC Router Certificates and the CRLs necessary to check the validity of the BGPSEC Router Certificates remain unchanged (i.e., they are as specified in [ID.sidr-rpki-algs]). The only impact is that the RPKI CAs will need to be able to process a profiled certificate request (see Section 5) signed with algorithms found in [ID.sidr-bgpsec- algs]. The use of BGPSEC Router Certificates in no way affects RPKI RPs that process Manifests and ROAs because the public key found in the BGPSEC Router Certificate is only ever used to verify the signature on the BGPSEC certificate request (only CAs process these), another BGPSEC Router Certificate (only BGPSEC routers process these), and the signature on a BGPSEC Update Message [ID.sidr-bgpsec- protocol] (only BGPSEC routers process these). Only the differences between this profile and the profile in [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] are listed. Note that BGPSEC Router Certificates are EE certificates. 3. BGPSEC Router Certificate Fields A BGPSEC Router Certificate is a valid X.509 public key certificate, consistent with the PKIX profile [RFC5280] and [ID.sidr-res-cert- profile], containing the fields listed in this section. Only the differences between this profile and the profile in [ID.sidr-res- cert-profile] are listed. 3.1. Subject This field identifies the router to which the certificate has been issued. Consistent with [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile], only two attributes are allowed in the Subject field: common name and serial number. Moreover, the only common name encoding options that are supported are printableString and UTF8String. For BGPSEC Router Certificates, it is RECOMMENDED that the common name attribute contain the literal string "ROUTER-" followed by the 32-bit AS Number [RFC3779] encoded as eight hexadecimal digits and that the serial number attribute contain the 32-bit BGP Identifier [RFC4271] (i.e., the router ID) encoded as eight hexadecimal digits. If the same certificate is issued to more than one router (hence the private key is shared among these routers), the choice of the router ID used in this name is at the discretion of the Issuer. Note that router IDs are not guaranteed to be unique across the Internet, and thus the Subject name in a BGPSEC Router Certificate issued using this convention also is not guaranteed to be unique across different Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 4] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 issuers. However, each certificate issued by an individual CA MUST contain a Subject name that is unique within that context. 3.2. Subject Public Key Info Refer to section 3.1 of [ID.sidr-bgpsec-algs]. 3.3. BGPSEC Router Certificate Version 3 Extension Fields The following X.509 V3 extensions MUST be present (or MUST be absent, if so stated) in a conforming BGPSEC Router Certificate, except where explicitly noted otherwise. No other extensions are allowed in a conforming BGPSEC Router Certificate. 3.3.1. Extended Key Usage BGPSEC Router Certificates MUST include the Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension. As specified, in [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] this extension MUST be marked as non-critical. This document defines one EKU for BGPSEC Router Certificates: id-kp OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) security(5) mechanisms(5) pkix(7) TBD } id-kp-bgpsec-router OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { id-kp TBD } Relying Parties MUST require the extended key usage extension to be present in a BGPSEC Router Certificate. If multiple KeyPurposeId values are included, the relying parties need not recognize all of them, as long as the required KeyPurposeId value is present. BGPSEC RPs MUST reject certificates that do not contain the BGPSEC Router EKU even if they include the anyExtendedKeyUsage OID defined in [RFC5280]. 3.3.2. Subject Information Access This extension is not used in BGPSEC Router Certificates. It MUST be omitted. 3.3.3. IP Resources This extension is not used in BGPSEC Router Certificates. It MUSt be omitted. 3.3.4. AS Resources Each BGPSEC Router Certificate MUST include the AS Resource Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 5] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 extension, as specified in section 4.8.11 of [ID.sidr-res-cert- profile]. The AS Resource extension MUST include exactly one AS number, and the "inherit" element MUST NOT be specified. 4. BGPSEC Router Certificate Request Profile Refer to section 6 of [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile]. The only differences between this profile and the profile in [ID.sidr-res- cert-profile] are: o The ExtendedKeyUsage extension request MUST be included and the CA MUST honor the request; o The SubjectPublicKeyInfo and PublicKey fields are specified in [ID.sidr-bgpsec-algs]; and, o The request is signed with the algorithms specified in [ID.sidr- bgpsec-algs]. 5. BGPSEC Router Certificate Validation The validation procedure used for BGPSEC Router Certificates is identical to the validation procedure described in Section 7 of [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] except that where "this specification" refers to [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] in that profile in this profile "this specification" is this document. The differences are as follows: o BGPSEC Router Certificates MUST include the BGPSEC EKU defined in Section 3.9.5. o BGPSEC Router Certificates MUST NOT include the SIA extension. o BGPSEC Router Certificates MUST NOT include the IP Resource extension. o BGPSEC Router Certificates MUST include the AS Resource extension. 6. Design Notes The BGPSEC Router Certificate profile is based on the Resource Certificate profile as specified in [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile]. As a result, many of the design choices herein are a reflection of the design choices that were taken in that prior work. The reader is referred to [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] for a fuller discussion of those choices. Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 6] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 7. Security Considerations The Security Considerations of [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] apply. A BGPSEC Router Certificate is an extension of the RPKI [ID.sidr- arch] to encompass routers. It is a building block of the larger BGPSEC security protocol used to validate signatures on BGPSEC Signature-Segment origination of Signed-Path segments [ID.sidr- bgpsec-protocol]. Thus its essential security function is the secure binding of an AS number to a public key, consistent with the RPKI allocation/assignment hierarchy. 8. IANA Considerations None. 9. Acknowledgements The efforts of Steve Kent and Matt Lepinski were instrumental in preparing this work. Additionally, we'd like to thank Roque Gagliano for his helpful suggestion about including an EKU. We'd like to thank Sandra Murphy and Geoff Huston for their reviews. 10. Normative References 10.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC3779] Lynn, C., Kent, S., and K. Seo, "X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers", RFC 3779, June 2004. [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006. [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, May 2008. [ID.sidr-res-cert-profile] Huston, G., Michaelson, G., and R. Loomans, "A Profile for X.509 PKIX Resource Certificates", draft-ietf-sidr-res-certs, work-in-progress. [ID.sidr-rpki-algs] Huston, G., "The Profile for Algorithms and Key Sizes for use in the Resource Public Key Infrastructure", draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-algs, work-in-progress. Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 7] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 [ID.sidr-bgpsec-algs] Reynolds, M. and S. Turner, "BGP Algorithms, Key Formats, & Signature Formats", draft-turner-sidr- bgpsec-algs, work-in-progress. 10.2. Informative References [RFC4272] Murphy, S., "BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis", RFC 4272, January 2006. [RFC5123] White, R. and B. Akyol, "Considerations in Validating the Path in BGP", RFC 5123, February 2008. [RFC5492] Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4", RFC 5492, February 2009. [ID.sidr-cp] Kent, S., Kong, D., Seo, K., and R., Watro, "Certificate Policy (CP) for the Resource PKI (RPKI)", draft-ietf-sidr-cp, work-in-progress. [ID.sidr-arch] Lepinski, M. and S. Kent, "An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing", draft-ietf-sidr-arch, work-in-progress. [ID.sidr-rpki-roa-format] Lepinski, M., Kent, S., and D. Kong, "A Profile for Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs)", draft- ietf-sidr-roa-format, work-in-progress [ID.sidr-rpki-manifests] Austein, R., Huston, G., Kent, S., and M. Lepinski, "Manifests for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure", draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-manifests, work-in- progress. [ID.sidr-bgpsec-protocol] Lepinksi, M., "BGPSEC Protocol Specification", draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-protocol, work-in- progress. Appendix A. Example BGPSEC Router Certificate Appendix B. Example Certificate Revocation Lis Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 8] Internet-Draft BGPSEC Router Certificate Profile July 27, 2011 Authors' Addresses Mark Reynolds Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp. 10 Moulton St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Email: mreynold@bbn.com Sean Turner IECA, Inc. 3057 Nutley Street, Suite 106 Fairfax, VA 22031 USA EMail: turners@ieca.com Reynolds & Turner Expires January 28, 2012 [Page 9]