validation of DSA signatures

W.C.A. Wijngaards wouter at nlnetlabs.nl
Wed Jan 13 13:51:12 UTC 2016


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Hi Jan,

On 01/13/2016 01:37 PM, Jan V?elák via Unbound-users wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> This is mostly a question for developers: I've noticed that test
> suite for Unbound contains scenarios with DSA signatures in a
> different format than specified by RFC 2536
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2536#section-3).
> 
> The DNSSEC DSA signature should be alywas 41 bytes long. But if I
> take a look for instance at testdata/val_nsec3_nods.rpl line 97, I
> can see the following record:
> 
> example.com.    3600    IN      RRSIG   DNSKEY 3 2 3600
> 20070926134802 20070829134802 2854 example.com. 
> MCwCFG1yhRNtTEa3Eno2zhVVuy2EJX3wAhQeLyUp6+UXcpC5qGNu9tkrTEgPUg==
> ;{id = 2854}
> 
> This signature is 46 bytes long. And it is sucessfully validated by
> Unbound. Obviously, it's the DSA signature encoded as the X.509
> Dss-Sig-Value (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2459#section-7.2.2).
> 
> Is there a reason why does Unbound you accept these signatures?

These signatures are produced by (an old?) signer.  Unbound is
compatible with its quirks.  DSA is almost not deployed at all for
DNSSEC, and the signer may already have been fixed for a long time.
Unbound is compatible to remove false-positives from validation
failures as much as possible.

Best regards, Wouter

> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Jan
> 

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