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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-12-11 14:00:08 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-12-11 14:15:27 +0100
commit56352fe92d0bf4310699b93427ab4fb1d44e5312 (patch)
tree6536223fc2c60e7e30ebd0779eaf7f352395845d /README
parent203f1b35d962bab3c67ecf57ce6bd9ec87bf7078 (diff)
resolved: refactor DNSSEC answer validation
This changes answer validation to be more accepting to unordered RRs in responses. The agorithm we now implement goes something like this: 1. populate validated keys list for this transaction from DS RRs 2. as long as the following changes the unvalidated answer list: 2a. try to validate the first RRset we find in unvalidated answer list 2b. if that worked: add to validated answer; if DNSKEY also add to validated keys list; remove from unvalidated answer. 2c. continue at 2a, with the next RRset, or restart from the beginning when we hit the end 3. as long as the following changes the unvalidated answer list: 3a. try to validate the first RRset again. This will necessarily fail, but we learn the precise error 3b. If this was a "primary" response to the question, fail the entire transaction. "Primary" in this context means that it is directly a response to the query, or a CNAME/DNAME for it. 3c. Otherwise, remove the RRset from the unvalidated answer list. Note that we the too loops in 2 + 3 are actually coded as a single one, but the dnskeys_finalized bool indicates which loop we are currently processing. Note that loop 2 does not drop any invalidated RRsets yet, that's something only loop 3 does. This is because loop 2 might still encounter additional DNSKEYS which might validate more stuff, and if we'd already have dropped those RRsets we couldn't validate those anymore. The first loop is hence a "constructive" loop, the second loop a "destructive" one: the first one validates whatever is possible, the second one then deletes whatever still isn't.
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