INTERNET-DRAFT                                           Donald
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                   D. Eastlake
Intended Status: Proposed Standard 3rd
Request for Comments: 7873                                        Huawei
                                                            Mark
Category: Standards Track                                     M. Andrews
ISSN: 2070-1721                                                      ISC
Expires: October 4, 2016                                   April 5,
                                                                May 2016

                    Domain Name System (DNS) Cookies
                   <draft-ietf-dnsop-cookies-10.txt>

Abstract

   DNS cookies Cookies are a lightweight DNS transaction security mechanism that
   provides limited protection to DNS servers and clients against a
   variety of increasingly common denial-of-service and amplification / amplification/
   forgery or cache poisoning attacks by off-path attackers.  DNS
   Cookies are tolerant of NAT, NAT-PT, NAT-PT (Network Address Translation -
   Protocol Translation), and anycast and can be incrementally deployed.
   (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address from which
   they were originally received, they cannot be used to generally track
   Internet users.)

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction............................................4
      1.1 Introduction ....................................................4
      1.1. Contents of This Document..............................4
      1.2 Definitions............................................5 Document ..................................4
      1.2. Definitions ................................................5
   2. Threats Considered......................................6
      2.1 Considered ..............................................5
      2.1. Denial-of-Service Attacks..............................6
      2.1.1 Attacks ..................................6
           2.1.1. DNS Amplification Attacks............................6
      2.1.2 Attacks ...........................6
           2.1.2. DNS Server Denial-of-Service.........................7
      2.2 Denial of Service ........................6
      2.2. Cache Poisoning and Answer Forgery Attacks.............7 Attacks .................7
   3. Comments on Existing DNS Security.......................8
      3.1 Security ...............................7
      3.1. Existing DNS Data Security.............................8
      3.2 Security .................................7
      3.2. DNS Message/Transaction Security.......................8
      3.3 Security ...........................8
      3.3. Conclusions on Existing DNS Security...................8 Security .......................8
   4. DNS Cookie Option......................................10
      4.1 COOKIE Option ...............................................8
      4.1. Client Cookie.........................................11
      4.2 Cookie .............................................10
      4.2. Server Cookie.........................................11 Cookie .............................................10
   5. DNS Cookies Protocol Specification.....................12
      5.1 Specification .............................11
      5.1. Originating Requests..................................12
      5.2 a Request .....................................11
      5.2. Responding to Request.................................12
      5.2.1 a Request ...................................11
           5.2.1. No Opt OPT RR or No COOKIE OPT option...................13
      5.2.2 Option ......................12
           5.2.2. Malformed COOKIE OPT option.........................13
      5.2.3 Option ............................12
           5.2.3. Only a Client Cookie................................13
      5.2.4 Cookie ...............................12
           5.2.4. A Client Cookie and an Invalid Server Cookie........14
      5.2.5 Cookie .......13
           5.2.5. A Client Cookie and a Valid Server Cookie...........14
      5.3 Cookie ..........13
      5.3. Processing Responses..................................15
      5.4 QUERYing Responses ......................................14
      5.4. Querying for a Server Cookie..........................15 Cookie ..............................14
   6. NAT Considerations and AnyCast Anycast Server Considerations...17 Considerations ...........15
   7. Operational and Deployment Considerations..............19
      7.1 Considerations ......................17
      7.1. Client and Server Secret Rollover.....................19
      7.2 Counters..............................................20 Rollover .........................17
      7.2. Counters ..................................................18
   8. IANA Considerations....................................21 Considerations ............................................18
   9. Security Considerations................................22
      9.1 Considerations ........................................19
      9.1. Cookie Algorithm Considerations.......................23 Considerations ...........................20
   10. Implementation Considerations.........................24 Considerations .................................20
   11. References ....................................................20
      11.1. Normative References......................................25 References .....................................20
      11.2. Informative References....................................25

      Acknowledgements..........................................27

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Table of Contents (continued) References ...................................21
   Appendix A: A. Example Client Cookie Algorithms..............28
      A.1 Algorithms ......................23
      A.1. A Simple Algorithm....................................28
      A.2 Algorithm ........................................23
      A.2. A More Complex Algorithm..............................28 Algorithm ..................................23
   Appendix B: B. Example Server Cookie Algorithms..............29
      B.1 Algorithms ......................23
      B.1. A Simple Algorithm....................................29
      B.2 Algorithm ........................................23
      B.2. A More Complex Algorithm..............................29

      Author's Address..........................................31

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   Acknowledgments ...................................................25
   Authors' Addresses ................................................25

1.  Introduction

   As with many core Internet protocols, the Domain Name System (DNS)
   was originally designed at a time when the Internet had only a small
   pool of trusted users.  As the Internet has grown exponentially to a
   global information utility, the DNS has increasingly been subject to
   abuse.

   This document describes DNS cookies, Cookies, a lightweight DNS transaction
   security mechanism specified as an OPT [RFC6891] option.  The
   DNS
   cookies Cookie mechanism provides limited protection to DNS servers and
   clients against a variety of increasingly common abuses by off-path
   attackers.  It is compatible with with, and can be used in conjunction with
   with, other DNS transaction forgery resistance measures such as those
   in [RFC5452].  (Since DNS Cookies are only returned to the IP address
   from which they were originally received, they cannot be used to
   generally track Internet users.)

   The protection provided by DNS cookies Cookies is similar to that provided by
   using TCP for DNS transactions. To bypass  Bypassing the weak protection
   provided by using TCP requires, among other things, that an off-path
   attacker guess the 32-bit TCP sequence number in use. To bypass  Bypassing the
   weak protection provided by DNS Cookies requires such an attacker to
   guess a 64-bit pseudo-random pseudorandom "cookie" quantity.  Where DNS Cookies are
   not available but TCP is, falling back to using TCP is reasonable.

   If only one party to a DNS transaction supports DNS cookies, Cookies, the
   mechanism does not provide a benefit or significantly interfere; but, interfere, but
   if both support it, the additional security provided is automatically
   available.

   The DNS cookies Cookie mechanism is designed to work in the presence of NAT
   and NAT-PT boxes (Network Address Translation - Protocol Translation)
   boxes, and guidance is provided herein on supporting the DNS cookies Cookie
   mechanism in anycast servers.

1.1

1.1.  Contents of This Document

   In Section 2, we discuss the threats against which the DNS cookie Cookie
   mechanism provides some protection.

   Section 3 describes existing DNS security mechanisms and why they are
   not adequate substitutes for DNS cookies. Cookies.

   Section 4 describes the COOKIE OPT option.

   Section 5 provides a protocol description.

   Section 6 discusses some NAT considerations and anycast related anycast-related
   DNS Cookies design

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   Section 7 discusses incremental deployment considerations.

   Sections 8 and 9 describe IANA considerations and Security Considerations.

1.2 security
   considerations, respectively.

1.2.  Definitions

   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].

   "Off-path attacker", for a particular DNS client and server, is
      defined as an attacker who cannot observe the DNS request and
      response messages between that client and server.

   "Soft state" indicates information that is learned or derived by a
      host which and that may be discarded when indicated by the policies of
      that host but can be later re-instantiated later if needed.  For
      example, it could be discarded after a period of time or when
      storage for caching such data becomes full.  If operations requiring that
      require soft state continue after it the information has been
      discarded, it the information will be automatically re-generated, regenerated,
      albeit at some cost.

   "Silently discarded" indicates that there are no DNS protocol message
      consequences.

   "IP address" is used herein as a length independent length-independent term and includes
      both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

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2.  Threats Considered

   DNS cookies Cookies are intended to provide significant but limited
   protection against certain attacks by off-path attackers attackers, as
   described below.  These attacks include denial-of-service, denial of service, cache
   poisoning, and answer forgery.

2.1

2.1.  Denial-of-Service Attacks

   The typical form of the denial-of-service attacks considered herein
   is to send DNS requests with forged source IP addresses to a server.
   The intent can be to attack that server or some other selected host host,
   as described below.

   There are also on-path denial of service denial-of-service attacks that attempt to
   saturate a server with DNS requests having correct source addresses.
   Cookies do not protect against such attacks attacks, but successful cookie
   validation improves the probability that the correct source IP
   address for the requests is known.  This facilitates contacting the
   managers of or taking other actions for the networks from which the requests originate.

2.1.1 originate or taking
   other actions for those networks.

2.1.1.  DNS Amplification Attacks

   A request with a forged IP source IP address generally causes a response
   to be sent to that forged IP address. Thus  Thus, the forging of many such
   requests with a particular source IP address can result in enough
   traffic being sent to the forged IP address to interfere with service
   to the host at the IP address.  Furthermore, it is generally easy in
   the DNS to create short requests that produce much longer responses,
   thus amplifying the attack.

   The DNS Cookies Cookie mechanism can severely limit the traffic amplification
   obtained by attacker requests from an attacker that are is off the path between
   the server and the request's source address.  Enforced DNS
   cookies Cookies
   would make it hard for an off path off-path attacker to cause any more than
   rate-limited short error responses to be sent to a forged IP
   address address,
   so the attack would be attenuated rather than amplified.  DNS
   cookies Cookies
   make it more effective to implement a rate limiting rate-limiting scheme for error
   responses from the server.  Such a scheme would further restrict
   selected host denial-of-service traffic from that server.

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2.1.2

2.1.2.  DNS Server Denial-of-Service Denial of Service

   DNS requests that are accepted cause work on the part of DNS servers.
   This is particularly true for recursive servers that may issue one or
   more requests and process the responses thereto, in order to
   determine their response to the initial request. And request; the situation can be
   even worse for recursive servers implementing DNSSEC
   ([RFC4033] [RFC4033]
   [RFC4034] [RFC4035]) [RFC4035], because they may be induced to perform
   burdensome cryptographic computations in attempts to verify the
   authenticity of data they retrieve in trying to answer the request.

   The computational or communications burden caused by such requests
   may not depend on a forged IP source IP address, but the use of such
   addresses makes

   + the source of the requests causing the denial-of-service attack
     harder to find and

   + restriction of the IP addresses from which such requests should be
     honored hard or impossible to specify or verify.

   Use

   The use of DNS cookies Cookies should enable a server to reject forged
   requests from an off path off-path attacker with relative ease and before any
   recursive queries or public key cryptographic operations are
   performed.

2.2

2.2.  Cache Poisoning and Answer Forgery Attacks

   The form of the cache poisoning attacks considered is to send forged
   replies to a resolver.  Modern network speeds for well-connected
   hosts are such that, by forging replies from the IP addresses of a
   DNS server to a resolver for names that resolver has been induced to
   resolve or for common names whose resource records have short time-
   to-live
   time-to-live values, there can be an unacceptably high probability of
   randomly coming up with a reply that will be accepted and cause false
   DNS information to be cached by that resolver (the Dan Kaminsky
   attack [Kaminsky]).  This can be used to facilitate phishing attacks
   and other diversion diversions of legitimate traffic to a compromised or
   malicious host such as a web server.

   With the use of DNS cookies, Cookies, a resolver can generally reject such
   forged replies.

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3.  Comments on Existing DNS Security

   Two forms of security have been added to DNS, DNS: data security and
   message/transaction security.

3.1

3.1.  Existing DNS Data Security

   DNS data security is one part of DNSSEC and is described in
   [RFC4033], [RFC4034], [RFC4035], and updates thereto.  It provides
   data origin authentication and authenticated denial of existence.
   DNSSEC is being deployed and can provide strong protection against
   forged data and cache poisoning; however, it has the unintended
   effect of making some denial-of-service attacks worse because of the
   cryptographic computational load it can require and the increased
   size in DNS response packets that it tends to produce.

3.2

3.2.  DNS Message/Transaction Security

   The second form of security that has been added to DNS provides
   "transaction" security through TSIG [RFC2845] or SIG(0) [RFC2931].
   TSIG could provide strong protection against the attacks for which
   the DNS Cookies Cookie mechanism provides weaker protection; however, TSIG is
   non-trivial to deploy in the general Internet because of the burdens
   it imposes.  Among these burdens are pre-agreement and key
   distribution between client and server, keeping track of server side server-side
   key state, and required time synchronization between client and
   server.

   TKEY [RFC2930] can solve the problem of key distribution for TSIG TSIG,
   but some modes of TKEY impose a substantial cryptographic computation
   load and can be dependent on the deployment of DNS data security (see
   Section 3.1).

   SIG(0) [RFC2931] provides less denial of service denial-of-service protection than TSIG
   or, in one way, even DNS cookies, Cookies, because it authenticates complete
   transactions but does not authenticate
   requests, only complete transactions. requests.  In any case, it
   also depends on the deployment of DNS data security and requires
   computationally burdensome public key cryptographic operations.

3.3

3.3.  Conclusions on Existing DNS Security

   The existing DNS security mechanisms do not provide the services
   provided by the DNS Cookies Cookie mechanism: lightweight message
   authentication of DNS requests and responses with no requirement for

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   pre-configuration or per client server side per-client server-side state.

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4.  DNS Cookie COOKIE Option

   The DNS Cookie Option COOKIE option is an OPT RR [RFC6891] option that can be
   included in the RDATA portion of an OPT RR in DNS requests and
   responses.  The option length varies varies, depending on the circumstances
   in which it is being used.  There are two cases cases, as described below.
   Both use the same OPTION-CODE; they are distinguished by their
   length.

   In a request sent by a client to a server when the client does not
   know the server's cookie, its length is 8, consisting of an 8 byte 8-byte
   Client Cookie Cookie, as shown in Figure 1.

                         1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |        OPTION-CODE = 10      |       OPTION-LENGTH = 8        |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    +-+-    Client Cookie (fixed size, 8 bytes)              -+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

              Figure 1. 1: COOKIE Option, Unknown Server Cookie

   In a request sent by a client when a server cookie Server Cookie is known known, and in
   all responses, responses to such a request, the length is variable -- from 16 to
   40 bytes, consisting of an 8 bytes 8-byte Client Cookie followed by the variable 8
   variable-length (8 bytes to 32 bytes bytes) Server Cookie Cookie, as shown in
   Figure 2.  The variability of the option length stems from the variable length
   variable-length Server Cookie.  The Server Cookie is an integer
   number of bytes bytes, with a minimum size of 8 bytes for security and a
   maximum size of 32 bytes for implementation
   convenience. convenience of implementation.

                         1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3
     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |        OPTION-CODE = 10      |   OPTION-LENGTH >= 16, <= 40   |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    +-+-    Client Cookie (fixed size, 8 bytes)              -+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    /       Server Cookie  (variable size, 8 to 32 bytes)           /
    /                                                               /
    +-+-+-+-...

               Figure 2. 2: COOKIE Option, Known Server Cookie

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4.1

4.1.  Client Cookie

   The Client Cookie SHOULD be a pseudo-random pseudorandom function of the client Client IP
   address,
   Address, the server Server IP address, Address, and a secret quantity known only to
   the client.  This client secret Client Secret SHOULD have at least 64 bits of
   entropy [RFC4086] and be changed periodically (see Section 7.1).  The
   selection of the pseudo-random pseudorandom function is a matter private to the
   client
   client, as only the client needs to recognize its own DNS cookies. Cookies.

   The client Client IP address Address is included so that the Client Cookie cannot be
   used (1) to (1) track a client if the client Client IP address Address changes due to
   privacy mechanisms or (2) to impersonate the client by some network
   device that was formerly on path but is no longer on path when the
   client
   Client IP address Address changes due to mobility.  However, if the client Client IP
   address
   Address is being changed very often, it may be necessary to fix the
   Client Cookie for a particular server for several requests requests, to avoid
   undue inefficiency due to retries caused by that server not
   recognizing the Client Cookie.

   For further discussion of the Client Cookie field, see Section 5.1.
   For example methods of determining a Client Cookie, see Appendix A.

   In order to provide minimal authentication, a client MUST send
   Client Cookies that will usually be different for any two servers at
   different IP addresses.

4.2

4.2.  Server Cookie

   The Server Cookie SHOULD consist of or include a 64-bit or larger
   pseudo-random
   pseudorandom function of the request source (client) IP address, a
   secret quantity known only to the server, and the request
   Client Cookie.  (See Section 6 for a discussion of why the
   Client Cookie is used as input to the Server Cookie but the
   Server Cookie is not used as an input to the Client Cookie.)  This server secret
   Server Secret SHOULD have at least 64 bits of entropy [RFC4086] and
   be changed periodically (see Section 7.1).  The selection of the pseudo-random
   pseudorandom function is a matter private to the server server, as only the
   server needs to recognize its own DNS cookies. Cookies.

   For further discussion of the Server Cookie field field, see Section 5.2.
   For example methods of determining a Server Cookie, see Appendix B.
   When implemented as recommended, the server need not maintain any
   cookie related per client
   cookie-related per-client state.

   In order to provide minimal authentication, a server MUST send
   Server Cookies that will usually be different for clients at any two
   different IP addresses or with different Client Cookies.

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5.  DNS Cookies Protocol Specification

   This section discusses using DNS Cookies in the DNS Protocol. protocol.  The
   cycle of originating a request, responding to that request, and
   processing the response are responses is covered in Sections 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3.  A
   de facto extension to QUERY to allow pre-fetching the prefetching of a
   Server Cookie is specified in Section 5.4.  Rollover of the client Client
   Secrets and server secrets Server Secrets, and transient retention of the old cookie
   or secret is secret, are covered in Section 7.1.

   DNS clients and servers SHOULD implement DNS cookies Cookies to decrease
   their vulnerability to the threats discussed in Section 2.

5.1

5.1.  Originating Requests a Request

   A DNS client that implements DNS Cookies includes one DNS
   COOKIE OPT option containing a Client Cookie in every DNS request
   it sends sends, unless DNS cookies Cookies are disabled.

   If the client has a cached Server Cookie for the server against its
   IP address address, it uses the longer cookie form and includes that
   Server Cookie in the option along with the Client Cookie (Figure 2).
   Otherwise
   Otherwise, it just sends the shorter form shorter-form option with a Client Cookie
   (Figure 1).

5.2

5.2.  Responding to a Request

   The Server Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIE OPT option in a request, is
   intended to weakly assure the server that the request came from a
   client that is both at the source IP address of the request and using
   the Client Cookie included in the option.  This assurance is provided
   by the Server Cookie that server sent to that client in an earlier
   response appearing as the Server Cookie field in the request.

   At a server where DNS Cookies are not implemented and enabled, the
   presence of a COOKIE OPT option is ignored and the server responds as if
   no COOKIE OPT option had been included in the request.

   When DNS Cookies are implemented and enabled, there are five
   possibilities:

   (1) there There is no OPT RR at all in the request request, or there is a an OPT RR
       but the COOKIE OPT option is absent from the OPT RR; RR.

   (2)
   a A COOKIE OPT option is present but is not a legal length or is
       otherwise
   malformed; malformed.

   (3) there There is a COOKIE option of valid length cookie option in the request with no
       Server Cookie; Cookie.

   (4) there There is a COOKIE option of valid length COOKIE OPT in the request with a
       Server Cookie Cookie, but that Server Cookie is invalid; or

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   (5) there There is a COOKIE option of valid length COOKIE OPT in the request with a
       correct Server Cookie.

   The

   These five possibilities are discussed in the subsections below.

   In all cases of multiple COOKIE OPT options in a request, only the first
   (the one closest to the DNS header) is considered.  All others are
   ignored.

5.2.1

5.2.1.  No Opt OPT RR or No COOKIE OPT option Option

   If there is no OPT record or no COOKIE OPT option present in the
   request request,
   then the server responds to the request as if the server doesn't
   implement the COOKIE OPT.

5.2.2 option.

5.2.2.  Malformed COOKIE OPT option Option

   If the COOKIE OPT option is too short to contain a Client Cookie Cookie, then
   FORMERR is generated.  If the COOKIE OPT option is longer than that
   required to hold a COOKIE OPT option with just a Client Cookie (8 bytes)
   but is shorter that than the minimum COOKIE OPT option with both a
   Client Cookie and a Server Cookie (16 bytes) bytes), then FORMERR is
   generated.  If the COOKIE OPT option is longer than the maximum valid
   COOKIE OPT option (40 bytes) bytes), then a FORMERR is generated.

   In summary, valid cookie lengths are 8 and 16 to 40 inclusive.

5.2.3

5.2.3.  Only a Client Cookie

   Based on server policy, including rate limiting, the server chooses
   one of the following:

   (1) Silently discard the request.

   (2) Send a BADCOOKIE error response.

   (3) Process the request and provide a normal response.  The RCODE is
       NOERROR
       NOERROR, unless some non-cookie error occurs in processing the
       request.

   If the server responds, responds choosing 2 (2) or 3 (3) above, it SHALL generate
   its own COOKIE OPT option containing both the Client Cookie copied from
   the request and a Server Cookie it has generated generated, and adds it will add
   this COOKIE OPT option to the response's OPT record.  Servers MUST, at
   least occasionally,

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   the correct Server Cookie.  This is necessary so that such a client
   can bootstrap to the more secure state where requests and responses
   have recognized Server Cookies and Client Cookies.  A server is not
   expected to maintain per
   client per-client state to achieve this.  For example,
   it could respond to every Nth request across all clients.

   If the request was received over TCP, the server SHOULD take the
   authentication provided by the use of TCP into account and SHOULD
   choose 3. (3).  In this case, if the server is not willing to accept the
   security provided by TCP as a substitute for the security provided by
   DNS Cookies but instead chooses 2, (2), there is some danger of an
   indefinite loop of retries (see Section 5.3).

5.2.4

5.2.4.  A Client Cookie and an Invalid Server Cookie

   The server examines the Server Cookie to determine if it is a valid
   Server Cookie that it has generated. had generated previously.  This determination
   normally involves
   re-calculating recalculating the Server Cookie (or the hash Hash part
   thereof) based on the server secret Server Secret (or the previous server secret Server Secret,
   if it has just
   changed), changed); the received Client Cookie, Cookie; the client Client IP address, and
   possibly
   Address; and, possibly, other fields -- see fields.  See Appendix B.2 for an
   example.  If the cookie is invalid, it can could be because of a stale Server Cookie, or

   + it is too old

   + a client's IP address or Client Cookie changing without changed, and the DNS server
   being aware, or
     is not aware of the change

   + an anycast server cluster that of servers is not consistently configured, or

   + an attempt to spoof the client. client has occurred

   The server SHALL process the request as if the invalid Server Cookie
   was not present present, as described in Section 5.2.3.

5.2.5

5.2.5.  A Client Cookie and a Valid Server Cookie

   When a valid Server Cookie is present in the request request, the server can
   assume that the request is from a client that it has talked to before
   and defensive measures for spoofed UDP requests, if any, are no
   longer required.

   The server SHALL process the request and include a COOKIE OPT option in
   the response by (a) copying the complete COOKIE OPT option from the
   request or (b) generating a new COOKIE OPT option containing both the
   Client Cookie copied from the request and a valid Server Cookie it
   has generated.

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5.3

5.3.  Processing Responses

   The Client Cookie, when it occurs in a COOKIE OPT option in a DNS reply,
   is intended to weakly assure the client that the reply came from a
   server at the source IP address used in the response packet packet, because
   the Client Cookie value is the value that client would send to that
   server in a request.  In a DNS reply with multiple COOKIE OPT options,
   all but the first (the one closest to the DNS Header) header) are ignored.

   A DNS client where DNS cookies Cookies are implemented and enabled examines
   the response for DNS cookies Cookies and MUST discard the response if it
   contains an illegal COOKIE OPT option length or an incorrect
   Client Cookie value.  If the client is expecting the response to
   contain a COOKIE OPT option and it is missing missing, the response MUST be
   discarded.  If the COOKIE OPT option Client Cookie is correct, the client
   caches the Server Cookie provided provided, even if the response is an error
   response (RCODE non-zero).

   If the reply extended RCODE in the reply is BADCOOKIE and the Client Cookie
   in the reply matches what was sent, it means that the server was
   unwilling to process the request because it did not have the correct
   Server Cookie in it.  The client SHOULD retry the request using the
   new Server Cookie from the response.  Repeated BADCOOKIE responses to
   requests that use the Server Cookie provided in the previous response
   may be an indication that either the shared secrets / secret generation or the method for
   generating secrets in an anycast cluster of servers are is inconsistent.
   If the reply to a retried request with a fresh Server Cookie is
   BADCOOKIE, the client SHOULD retry using TCP as the transport transport, since
   the server will likely process the request normally based on the
   security provided by TCP (see Section 5.2.3).

   If the RCODE is some value other than BADCOOKIE, including zero, the
   further processing of the response proceeds normally.

5.4 QUERYing

5.4.  Querying for a Server Cookie

   In many cases cases, a client will learn the Server Cookie for a server as
   the side effect "side effect" of another transaction; however, there may be times
   when this is not desirable. Therefore  Therefore, a means is provided for
   obtaining a Server Cookie through an extension to the QUERY opcode
   for which opcode most existing implementations require that QDCOUNT
   be one (1) (see Section 4.1.2 of [RFC1035]).

   For servers with DNS Cookies enabled, the QUERY opcode behavior is
   extended to support queries with an empty question section (QDCOUNT
   zero) Question Section (a QDCOUNT
   of zero (0)), provided that an OPT record is present with a COOKIE
   option.  Such servers will send a reply with that has an empty answer section
   Answer Section and has a COOKIE

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   and a valid Server Cookie.

   If such a query provided just a Client Cookie and no Server Cookie,
   the response SHALL have the RCODE NOERROR.

   This mechanism can also be used to confirm/re-establish an existing
   Server Cookie by sending a cached Server Cookie with the
   Client Cookie.  In this case case, the response SHALL have the RCODE
   BADCOOKIE if the Server Cookie sent with the query was invalid and
   the RCODE NOERROR if it was valid.

   Servers which that don't support the COOKIE option will normally send
   FORMERR in response to such a query, though REFUSED, NOTIMP, and
   NOERROR without a COOKIE option are also possible in such responses.

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6.  NAT Considerations and AnyCast Anycast Server Considerations

   In the Classic classic Internet, DNS Cookies could simply be a pseudo-random pseudorandom
   function of the client Client IP address Address and a server secret Server Secret or the server Server
   IP address Address and a client secret. Client Secret.  You would want to compute the
   Server Cookie that way, so a client could cache its Server Cookie for
   a particular server for an indefinite amount of time and the server
   could easily regenerate and check it.  You could consider the
   Client Cookie to be a weak client signature over the server Server IP address
   Address that the client checks in replies replies, and you could extend this
   signature to cover the request ID, for example, or any other
   information that is returned unchanged in the reply.

   But we have this reality called NAT [RFC3022], Network Address
   Translation "NAT" [RFC3022] (including, for the
   purposes of this document, NAT-PT,
   Network Address and Protocol Translation, which has been declared Historic
   [RFC4966]).  There is no problem with DNS transactions between
   clients and servers behind a NAT box using local IP addresses.  Nor
   is there a problem with NAT translation of internal addresses to
   external addresses or translations between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses,
   as long as the address mapping is relatively stable.  Should the
   external IP address to which an internal client is being mapped to
   change occasionally, the disruption is little more than when a client
   rolls-over
   rolls over its DNS COOKIE secret. And normally  Also, external access to a DNS server
   behind a NAT box is normally handled by a fixed mapping which that forwards
   externally received DNS requests to a specific host.

   However, NAT devices sometimes also map ports.  This can cause
   multiple DNS requests and responses from multiple internal hosts to
   be mapped to a smaller number of external IP addresses, such as one
   address.  Thus  Thus, there could be many clients behind a NAT box that
   appear to come from the same source IP address to a server outside
   that NAT box.  If one of these were an attacker (think Zombie "zombie" or
   Botnet),
   "botnet") behind a NAT box, that behind-NAT attacker could get the Server Cookie
   for some server for the outgoing IP address by just making some
   random request to that server.  It could then include that
   Server Cookie in the COOKIE OPT option of requests to the server with the
   forged local IP address of some other host and/or client behind the
   NAT box.
   (Attacker  (An attacker's possession of this Server Cookie will not
   help in forging responses to cause cache poisoning poisoning, as such responses
   are protected by the required Client Cookie.)

   To fix this potential defect, it is necessary to distinguish
   different clients behind a NAT box from the point of view of the
   server. It  This is for this reason that why the Server Cookie is specified as a pseudo-random pseudorandom
   function of both the request source IP address and the Client Cookie.
   From this inclusion of the Client Cookie in the calculation of the
   Server Cookie, it follows that a stable Client
   Cookie, that, for any particular server, a stable
   Client Cookie is needed.  If, for example, the request ID was
   included in the calculation of the Client Cookie, it

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   change with each request to a particular server.  This would mean
   that each request would have to be sent twice: first first, to learn the
   new Server Cookie based on this new Client Cookie based on the new ID
   ID, and then again using this new Client Cookie to actually get an
   answer. Thus  Thus, the input to the Client Cookie computation must be
   limited to the server Server IP address Address and one or more things that change slowly
   slowly, such as the client secret. Client Secret.

   In principle, there could be a similar problem for servers, not due
   to NAT but due to mechanisms like anycast which that may cause requests to
   a DNS server at an IP address to be delivered to any one of several
   machines.  (External requests to a DNS server behind a NAT box
   usually occur via port forwarding such that all such requests go to
   one host.)  However, it is impossible to solve this in the way that
   the similar problem was solved for NATed clients; if the
   Server Cookie was included in the calculation of the Client Cookie in
   the same way that the Client Cookie is included in the Server Cookie,
   you would just get an almost infinite series of errors as a request
   was repeatedly retried.

   For servers accessed via anycast anycast, to successfully support
   DNS COOKIES, Cookies, either (1) the server clones must either all use the same server secret
   Server Secret or (2) the mechanism that distributes requests to them the
   server clones must cause the requests from a particular client to go
   to a particular server for a sufficiently long period of time that
   extra requests due to changes in Server Cookie Cookies resulting from
   accessing different server machines are not unduly burdensome.  (When
   such anycast-accessed servers act as recursive servers or otherwise
   act as clients clients, they normally use a different unique address to
   source their requests requests, to avoid confusion in the delivery of
   responses.)

   For simplicity, it is RECOMMENDED that the same server secret Server Secret be used
   by each DNS server in a set of anycast servers.  If there is limited
   time skew in updating this secret in different anycast servers, this
   can be handled by a server accepting requests containing a
   Server Cookie based on either its old or new secret for the maximum
   likely time period of such time skew (see also Section 7.1).

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7.  Operational and Deployment Considerations

   The DNS cookies Cookie mechanism is designed for incremental deployment and
   to complement the orthogonal techniques in [RFC5452].  Either or both
   techniques can be deployed independently at each DNS server and
   client. Thus  Thus, installation at the client and server end need not be
   synchronized.

   In particular, a DNS server or client that implements the DNS COOKIE Cookie
   mechanism can interoperate successfully with a DNS client or server
   that does not implement this mechanism mechanism, although, of course, in this
   case it will not get the benefit of the mechanism and the server
   involved might choose to severely rate limit rate-limit responses.  When such a
   server or client interoperates with a client or server which that also
   implements the DNS cookies Cookie mechanism, they these servers and clients get
   the security benefits of the DNS Cookies Cookie mechanism.

7.1

7.1.  Client and Server Secret Rollover

   The longer a secret is used, the higher the probability that it has
   been compromised. Thus  Thus, clients and servers are configured with a
   lifetime setting for their secret secret, and rollover they roll over to a new secret
   when that lifetime
   expires expires, or earlier due to deliberate jitter as
   described below.  The default lifetime is one day day, and the maximum
   permitted is one month.  To be precise and to make it practical to
   stay within limits despite long holiday weekends and weekends, daylight savings saving
   time shifts shifts, and the like, clients and servers MUST NOT continue to
   use the same secret in new requests and responses for more than
   36 days and SHOULD NOT continue to do so for more than 26 hours.

   Many clients rolling over their secret at the same time could briefly
   increase server traffic traffic, and exactly predictable rollover times for
   clients or servers might facilitate guessing attacks.  For example,
   an attacker might increase the priority of attacking secrets they
   believe will be in effect for an extended period of time.  To avoid
   rollover synchronization and predictability, it is RECOMMENDED that
   pseudorandom jitter in the range of plus zero to minus at least 40%
   be applied to the time until a scheduled rollover of a DNS cookie COOKIE secret.

   It is RECOMMENDED that a client keep the Client Cookie it is
   expecting in a reply until there is no longer an outstanding request
   associated with that Client Cookie that the client is tracking.  This
   avoids rejection of replies due to a bad Client Cookie right after a
   change in the client secret. Client Secret.

   It is RECOMMENDED that a server retain its previous secret after a
   rollover to a new secret for a configurable period of time not less

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   than 1 second or more than 5 minutes 300 seconds, with a default configuration
   of 2
   1/2 minutes. 150 seconds.  Requests with Server Cookies based on its previous
   secret are treated as a correct Server Cookie during that time.  When
   a server responds to a request containing a an old Server Cookie that
   the server is treating as correct, the server MUST include a new
   Server Cookie in its response.

7.2

7.2.  Counters

   It is RECOMMENDED that implementations include counters of the
   occurrences of the various types of requests and responses described
   in Section 5.

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8.  IANA Considerations

   IANA has assigned the following OPT DNS EDNS0 option value: code:

       Value       Name      Status        Reference
      --------    ------    --------    ---------------
         10       COOKIE    Standard    [this document]       RFC 7873

   IANA has assigned the following DNS error code as an early
   allocation: allocation
   per [RFC7120]:

       RCODE       Name       Description                 Reference
      --------  ---------  -------------------------   ---------------
         23     BADCOOKIE  Bad/missing server cookie   [this document]

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9.  Security Considerations

   DNS Cookies provide a weak form of authentication of DNS requests and
   responses.  In particular, they provide no protection against "on-
   path"
   "on-path" adversaries; that is, they provide no protection against
   any adversary that can observe the plain text plaintext DNS traffic, such as an on-
   path
   on-path router, bridge, or any device on an on-path shared link
   (unless the DNS traffic in question on that path is encrypted).

   For example, if a host is connected via an unsecured IEEE Std Std. 802.11
   link (Wi-Fi), any device in the vicinity that could receive and
   decode the 802.11 transmissions must be considered "on-path". "on path".  On the
   other hand, in a similar situation but one where 802.11 Robust
   Security (WPA2) (WPA2, also called "Wi-Fi Protected Access 2") is
   appropriately deployed on the Wi-Fi network nodes, only the
   Access Point via which the host is connecting is "on-path" "on path" as far as
   the 802.11 link is concerned.

   Despite these limitations, deployment of DNS Cookies on the global
   Internet is expected to provide a significant reduction in the
   available launch points for the traffic amplification and denial of denial-of-
   service forgery attacks described in Section 2 above.

   Work is underway in the IETF DPRIVE working group to provide
   confidentiality for DNS requests and responses which that would be
   compatible with DNS cookies. Cookies.

   Should stronger message/transaction security be desired, it is
   suggested that TSIG or SIG(0) security be used (see Section 3.2);
   however, it may be useful to use DNS Cookies in conjunction with
   these features.  In particular, DNS Cookies could screen out many DNS
   messages before the cryptographic computations of TSIG or SIG(0) are
   required and,
   required, and if SIG(0) is in use, DNS Cookies could usefully screen
   out many requests given that SIG(0) does not screen requests but only
   authenticates the response of complete transactions.

   An attacker that does not know the Server Cookie could do a variety
   of things, such as omitting the COOKIE OPT option or sending a random
   Server Cookie.  In general, DNS servers need to take other measures,
   including rate limiting rate-limiting responses, to protect from abuse in such
   cases.  See further information in Section 5.2.

   When a server or client starts receiving an increased level of
   requests with bad server cookies Server Cookies or replies with bad client cookies, Client Cookies,
   it would be reasonable for it to believe that it is likely under attack
   attack, and it should consider a more frequent rollover of its
   secret.  More rapid rollover decreases the benefit to a cookie guessing
   cookie-guessing attacker if they succeed in guessing a cookie.

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9.1

9.1.  Cookie Algorithm Considerations

   The cookie computation algorithm for use in DNS Cookies SHOULD be
   based on a pseudo-random pseudorandom function at least as strong as 64-bit FNV
   (Fowler-Noll-Vo [FNV])
   (Fowler/Noll/Vo [FNV]), because an excessively weak or trivial
   algorithm could enable adversaries to guess cookies.  However, in
   light of the lightweight plain-text plaintext token security provided by
   DNS Cookies, a strong cryptography hash algorithm may not be
   warranted in many cases, cases and would cause an increased computational
   burden.
   Nevertheless  Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with using something stronger,
   stronger -- for example, HMAC-SHA256 HMAC-SHA-256 [RFC6234] truncated to 64 bits,
   assuming that a DNS processor has adequate computational resources
   available.  DNS
   processors implementations or applications that feel the need for somewhat
   stronger security without a significant increase in computational
   load should consider more frequent changes in their client and/or server secret;
   Server Secret; however, this does require more frequent generation of
   a cryptographically strong random number [RFC4086].  See Appendices A
   and B for specific examples of cookie computation algorithms.

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10.  Implementation Considerations

   The DNS Cookie Option COOKIE option specified herein is implemented in BIND 9.10
   using an experimental option code.

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   allocated option code.

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [RFC1035] -  Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - implementation and
              specification", STD 13, RFC 1035, DOI 10.17487/RFC1035,
              November 1987, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1035>.

   [RFC2119] -  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC4086] -  Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
              "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc4086>.
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>.

   [RFC6891] -  Damas, J., Graff, M., and P. Vixie, "Extension Mechanisms
              for DNS (EDNS(0))", STD 75, RFC 6891, 6891,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6891, April 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>.

   [RFC7120]  Cotton, M., "Early IANA Allocation of Standards Track Code
              Points", BCP 100, RFC 7120, DOI 10.17487/RFC6891,
         April 2013, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6891>. 10.17487/RFC7120,
              January 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7120>.

11.2.  Informative References

   [FNV] - G.      Fowler, L. C. G., Noll, K.-P. L., Vo, K., and D. Eastlake, Eastlake 3rd, "The
              FNV Non-
         Cryptographic Non-Cryptographic Hash Algorithm", draft-eastlake-fnv, work Work in
         progress. Progress,
              draft-eastlake-fnv-10, October 2015.

   [Kaminsky] - Olney, M., P. Mullen, P., and K. Miklavicic, Miklavcic, "Dan Kaminsky's
              2008 DNS Vulnerability", 25 July 2008,
         <https://www.ietf.org/mail-
         archive/web/dnsop/current/pdf2jgx6rzxN4.pdf>. <https://www.ietf.org/
              mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/pdf2jgx6rzxN4.pdf>.

   [RFC2845] -  Vixie, P., Gudmundsson, O., Eastlake 3rd, D., and B.
              Wellington, "Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS
              (TSIG)", RFC 2845, DOI 10.17487/RFC2845, May 2000,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2845>.

   [RFC2930] -  Eastlake 3rd, D., "Secret Key Establishment for DNS
              (TKEY RR)", RFC 2930, DOI 10.17487/RFC2930,
              September 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2930>.

   [RFC2931] -  Eastlake 3rd, D., "DNS Request and Transaction Signatures
              ( SIG(0)s )", RFC 2931, DOI 10.17487/RFC2931,
              September 2000, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2931>.

   [RFC3022] -  Srisuresh, P. and K. Egevang, "Traditional IP Network
              Address Translator (Traditional NAT)", RFC 3022,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3022, January 2001, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc3022>.

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              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3022>.

   [RFC4033] -  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "DNS Security Introduction and Requirements",
              RFC 4033, DOI 10.17487/RFC4033, March 2005, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc4033>.
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4033>.

   [RFC4034] -  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "Resource Records for the DNS Security Extensions",
              RFC 4034, DOI 10.17487/RFC4034, March 2005, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc4034>.
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4034>.

   [RFC4035] -  Arends, R., Austein, R., Larson, M., Massey, D., and S.
              Rose, "Protocol Modifications for the DNS Security
              Extensions", RFC 4035, DOI 10.17487/RFC4035, March 2005, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc4035>.
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4035>.

   [RFC4966] -  Aoun, C. and E. Davies, "Reasons to Move the Network
              Address Translator - Protocol Translator (NAT-PT) to
              Historic Status", RFC 4966, DOI 10.17487/RFC4966,
              July 2007, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4966>.

   [RFC5452] -  Hubert, A. and R. van Mook, "Measures for Making DNS
              More Resilient against Forged Answers", RFC 5452,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5452, January 2009, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc5452>.
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5452>.

   [RFC6234] -  Eastlake 3rd, D. and T. Hansen, "US Secure Hash Algorithms
              (SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF)", RFC 6234,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6234, May 2011, <http://www.rfc-
         editor.org/info/rfc6234>.

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Acknowledgements

   The suggestions and contributions of the following are gratefully
   acknowledged:

      Alissa Cooper, Bob Harold, Paul Hoffman, David Malone, Yoav Nir,
      Gayle Noble, Dan Romascanu,
      Tim Wicinski, Peter Yee

   The document was prepared in raw nroff. All macros used were defined
   within the source file.

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              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6234>.

Appendix A: A.  Example Client Cookie Algorithms

A.1

A.1.  A Simple Algorithm

   A simple example method to compute Client Cookies is the FNV-64 FNV64 [FNV]
   of the client Client IP address, Address, the server Server IP address, Address, and the client
   secret. That is Client
   Secret:

      Client Cookie =
         FNV-64(
         FNV64( Client IP Address | Server IP Address | Client Secret )

   where "|" indicates concatenation.  Some computational resources may
   be saved by precomputing FNV-64 pre-computing FNV64 through the Client IP Address.  (If
   the order of the items concatenated above is changed to put the
   Server IP Address last, it might be possible to further reduce the
   computational effort by pre-computing FNV-64 FNV64 through the bytes of both
   the Client IP Address and the Client Secret Secret, but this would reduce
   the strength of the Client Cookie and is NOT RECOMMENDED.)

A.2

A.2.  A More Complex Algorithm

   A more complex algorithm to calculate Client Cookies is given below.
   It uses more computational resources than the simpler algorithm shown
   in Appendix A.1.

      Client Cookie =
         HMAC-SHA256-64( Client IP Address | Server IP Address,
                          Client Secret )

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Appendix B: B.  Example Server Cookie Algorithms

B.1

B.1.  A Simple Algorithm

   An example of a simple method producing a 64-bit Server Cookie is the
   FNV-64
   FNV64 [FNV] of the request IP address, the Client Cookie, and the
   server secret.
   Server Secret.

      Server Cookie =
         FNV-64(
         FNV64( Client IP Address | Client Cookie | Server Secret )

   where "|" represents concatenation.  (If the order of the items
   concatenated was changed, it might be possible to reduce the
   computational effort by pre-computing FNV-64 FNV64 through the bytes of the
   Sever
   Server Secret and Client Cookie Cookie, but this would reduce the strength
   of the Server Cookie and is NOT RECOMMENDED.)

B.2

B.2.  A More Complex Algorithm

   Since the Server Cookie has a variable size, the server can store
   various information in that field as long as it is hard for an
   adversary to guess the entire quantity used for authentication.
   There should be 64 bits of entropy in the Server Cookie; for example example,
   it could have a sub-field of 64-bits 64 bits computed pseudo-randomly pseudorandomly with the
   server secret
   Server Secret as one of the inputs to the pseudo-random pseudorandom function.
   Types of additional information that could be stored include a time
   stamp
   timestamp and/or a nonce.

   The example below is one variation for of the Server Cookie that has been
   implemented in BIND 9.10.3 (and later) releases releases, where the
   Server Cookie is 128 bits bits, composed as follows:

         Sub-field      Size
         ---------   ---------
           Nonce      32 bits
           Time       32 bits
           Hash       64 bits

   With this algorithm, the server sends a new 128-bit cookie back with
   every request.  The Nonce field assures a low probability that there
   would be a duplicate.

   The Time field gives the server time and makes it easy to reject old
   cookies.

   The Hash part of the Server Cookie is the hard-to-guess part. part that is hard to guess.
   In BIND

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   AES,
   HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA-1, or, as shown below, HMAC-SHA256: HMAC-SHA-256:

       hash =
           HMAC-SHA256-64( Server Secret,
               (Client Cookie | nonce Nonce | time Time | Client IP Address) )

   where "|" represents concatenation.

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Author's Address

Acknowledgments

   The suggestions and contributions of the following are gratefully
   acknowledged:

      Alissa Cooper, Bob Harold, Paul Hoffman, David Malone, Yoav Nir,
      Gayle Noble, Dan Romascanu, Tim Wicinski, and Peter Yee

Authors' Addresses

   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
   Huawei Technologies
   155 Beaver Street
   Milford, MA  01757 USA

   Telephone:
   United States

   Phone: +1-508-333-2270
   EMail:
   Email: d3e3e3@gmail.com

   Mark Andrews
   Internet Systems Consortium
   950 Charter Street
   Redwood City, CA  94063 USA
   United States

   Email: marka@isc.org

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