Network Working Group R. Bush Internet-Draft IIJ Intended status: Standards Track November 8, 2010 Expires: May 12, 2011 The RPKI Ghostbusters Record draft-ymbk-ghostbusters-01 Abstract In the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI), resource certificates completely obscure names or any other information which might be useful for contacting responsible parties to deal with issues of certificate expiration, maintenance, roll-overs, compromises, etc. This draft describes the RPKI Ghostbusters Record containing human contact information to be signed (indirectly) by a resource-owning certificate. The data in the record are those of a severely profiled vCARD. Requirements Language 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 RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 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RPKI Ghostbuster Record Payload Example . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. vCARD Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. CMS Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 9. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft The RPKI Ghostbusters Record November 2010 1. Introduction In the operational use of the RPKI it can become necessary to contact, human to human, the party responsible for a resource-owning certificate. The primary example of this need is when the owner of a Route Origin Authorizations (ROA) sees that a upstream certificate in the chain needed to validate the ROA is soon to expire or a CRL associated with the certificate is stale, thus placing the quality of the routing of the address space described by the ROA in jeopardy. As the names in RPKI certificates are intentionally obscured hashes, see [I-D.ietf-sidr-cp], there is no way to use the certificate itself to lead to the certificate's maintainer. So, "Who do you call?" This document specifies the RPKI Ghostbusters Record, signed indirectly by the certificate whose maintainer needs to be contacted, which contains human usable contact information for that maintainer. This document and the Ghostbusters Record conform to the syntax defined in [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object]. Note that this record is not an identity certificate, but an attestation to the contact data made by the holder of the signing certificate, and its parent if that is an EE certificate. This record is not meant to supplant or be used as resource registry whois data. It gives information about a certificate maintainer not a resource holder. This specification has three main sections. The first, Section 4, is the format of the contact payload information, a severely profiled vCARD. The second, Section 5, profiles the packaging of the payload as a profile of the RPKI Signed Object Template specification [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object]. The third, Section 6, describes the proper validation of the signed Ghostbusters Record. 2. Suggested Reading It is assumed that the reader understands the RPKI, [I-D.ietf-sidr-arch], the RPKI Repository Structure, [I-D.ietf-sidr-repos-struct], Signed RPKI Objects, [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object], and vCARDS [RFC2426]. 3. RPKI Ghostbuster Record Payload Example An example of an RPKI Ghostbusters Record payload with all fields Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft The RPKI Ghostbusters Record November 2010 used is as follows: BEGIN:vCard VERSION:3.0 FN:Human's Name ORG:Organizational Entity ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;42 Twisty Passage;Deep Cavern; WA; 98666;U.S.A. TEL;TYPE=VOICE,MSG,WORK:+1-666-555-1212 TEL;TYPE=FAX,WORK:+1-666-555-1213 EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:human@example.com END:vCard 4. vCARD Profile The goal in profiling the vCARD is not to include as much information as possible, but rather to include as few fields as possible while providing the minimal necessary data to enable one to contact the maintainer of the RPKI data which threatens the ROA[s] of concern. The Ghostbusters vCARD payload is a minimalist subset of the vCARD as described in [RFC2426]. BEGIN - pro forma packaging which MUST be the first line in the vCARD and MUST have the value "BEGIN:vCARD" as described in [RFC2426]. VERSION - pro forma packaging which MUST be the second line in the vCARD and MUST have the value "VERSION:3.0" as described in 3.6.9 of [RFC2426]. FN - the name, as described in 3.1.1 of [RFC2426], of a contactable person who responsible for the certificate. ORG - an organization as described in 3.5.5 of [RFC2426]. ADR - a postal address as described in 3.2.1 of [RFC2426]. TEL - a voice and/or fax phone as described in 3.3.1 of [RFC2426]. EMAIL - an Email address as described in 3.3.2 of [RFC2426] END - pro forma packaging which MUST be the last line in the vCARD and MUST have the value "END:vCARD" as described in [RFC2426]. The BEGIN, VERSION, and END lines MUST be included in a record. To be useful, FN and one or more of ADR, TEL, and EMAIL SHOULD be included. Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft The RPKI Ghostbusters Record November 2010 5. CMS Packaging The Ghostbusters Record is a CMS signed-data object conforming to the RPKI Signed Data Object Template, [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object]. The ASN.1 for the ContentType is as follows: rPKIGhostbusters ::= SEQUENCE { Version [0] INTEGER DEFAULT 0, vCard VCARD} VCARD ::= PrintableString The ContentType of a Ghostbusters Record is defined as rpkiGhostbusters, and has the numerical value of TO BE ASSIGNED. This OID MUST appear both within the eContentType in the encapContentInfo object as well as the ContentType signed attribute in the signerInfo object. See [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object]. eContent: The content of a Ghostbusters Record is described above in Section 4 above. Similarly to a ROA, the Ghostbusters Record is usually signed by an end-entity certificate which is, in turn, signed by the resource- holding certificate whose maintainer is described in the vCARD. 6. Validation The validation procedure defined in Section 3 of [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object] is applied to a Ghostbusters Record. After this procedure has been performed, the Version number field within the payload is checked, and the OCTET STRING containing the vCARD data is extracted. These data are checked against the profile defined in Section 4 of this document. Only if all of these checks pass is the Ghostbusters payload deemed valid and made available to the application that requested the payload. 7. Security Considerations Though there is no on the wire protocol in this specification, there are attacks which could abuse the data described. As the data, to be useful, need to be public, little can be done to avoid this exposure. Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 5] Internet-Draft The RPKI Ghostbusters Record November 2010 Phone Numbers: The vCARDs may contain real world telephone numbers which could be abused for telemarketing, abusive calls, etc. Email Addresses: The vCARDs may contain Email addresses which could be abused for purpases of spam. Relying parties are warned that the data in a Ghostbusters Record are self-asserted. These data have not been verified by the CA that issued a (CA) certificate to the entity that issued the EE certificate used to validate the Ghostbusters Record. 8. IANA Considerations This document has no IANA Considerations. 9. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Russ Housley for suggesting profiling the vCARD specification, the authors of [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object], and particularly Steven Kent. 10. References 10.1. Normative References [I-D.achi-rpki-signed-object] Lepinski, M., Chi, A., and S. Kent, "Signed Object Template for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure", draft-achi-rpki-signed-object-00 (work in progress), August 2010. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC2426] Dawson, F. and T. Howes, "vCard MIME Directory Profile", RFC 2426, September 1998. 10.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-sidr-arch] Lepinski, M. and S. Kent, "An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing", draft-ietf-sidr-arch-11 (work in progress), September 2010. [I-D.ietf-sidr-cp] Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 6] Internet-Draft The RPKI Ghostbusters Record November 2010 Kent, S., Kong, D., Seo, K., and R. Watro, "Certificate Policy (CP) for the Resource PKI (RPKI", draft-ietf-sidr-cp-15 (work in progress), October 2010. [I-D.ietf-sidr-repos-struct] Huston, G., Loomans, R., and G. Michaelson, "A Profile for Resource Certificate Repository Structure", draft-ietf-sidr-repos-struct-05 (work in progress), October 2010. Author's Address Randy Bush Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. 5147 Crystal Springs Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110 US Phone: +1 206 780 0431 x1 Email: randy@psg.com Bush Expires May 12, 2011 [Page 7]