Re: dialback in DNA
Philipp Hancke <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:08:16 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.xmpp |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> I'd need to double-check XEP-0220, one of our favorite documents. ;-) > >>> an updated version of [XEP-0220], might define a DNA prooftype for >>> dialback >> >> I just tried that and failed. > > How so? I could not figure out which proof of identity I wanted. Did I want the proof that the receiving server is who it claims to be? With dialback, the proof seems to be "oh yeah, it is listening on the port DNS says"? That's pretty bad but we know it is vulnerable to DNS poisoning... For the sending server, the proof is slightly better, db:verify and merlins spell assert the sender shares a secret with the authoritative server. I just need to write up the formal prooftype definition for both. It seems this is more complicated for dialback than for PKIX or POSH/DANE because it's not symmetric there. OTOH, we might have scenarios where we have PKIX in one direction and POSH in the other.