Network Working Group                                          M. Thomas
Request for Comments: 5016                                 Cisco Systems
Category: Informational                                     October 2007


                         Requirements for a
     DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signing Practices Protocol

Status of This Memo

  This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
  not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
  memo is unlimited.

Abstract

  DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) provides a cryptographic mechanism
  for domains to assert responsibility for the messages they handle.  A
  related mechanism will allow an administrator to publish various
  statements about their DKIM signing practices.  This document defines
  requirements for this mechanism, distinguishing between those that
  must be satisfied (MUST), and those that are highly desirable
  (SHOULD).




























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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction ....................................................2
  2. Definitions and Requirements Language ...........................3
  3. SSP Problem Scenarios ...........................................4
     3.1. Problem Scenario 1: Is All Mail Signed with DKIM? ..........4
     3.2. Problem Scenario 2: Illegitimate Domain Name Use ...........5
  4. SSP Deployment Considerations ...................................6
     4.1. Deployment Consideration 1: Outsourced Signing .............6
     4.2. Deployment Consideration 2: Subdomain Coverage .............6
     4.3. Deployment Consideration 3: Resent Original Mail ...........7
     4.4. Deployment Consideration 4: Incremental Deployment
          of Signing .................................................7
     4.5. Deployment Consideration 5: Performance and Caching ........8
     4.6. Deployment Consideration 6: Human Legibility of Practices ..8
     4.7. Deployment Consideration 7: Extensibility ..................8
     4.8. Deployment Consideration 8: Security .......................8
  5. Requirements ....................................................9
     5.1. Discovery Requirements .....................................9
     5.2. SSP Transport Requirements ................................10
     5.3. Practice and Expectation Requirements .....................10
     5.4. Extensibility and Forward Compatibility Requirements ......13
  6. Requirements for SSP Security ..................................13
  7. Security Considerations ........................................13
  8. Acknowledgments ................................................13
  9. References .....................................................14
     9.1. Normative References ......................................14

1.  Introduction

  DomainKeys Identified Mail [RFC4871] defines a message level signing
  and verification mechanism for email.  While a DKIM signed message
  speaks for itself, there is ambiguity if a message doesn't have a
  valid first party signature (i.e., on behalf of the [RFC2822].From
  address): is this to be expected or not?  For email, this is an
  especially difficult problem since there is no expectation of a
  priori knowledge of a sending domain's practices.  This ambiguity can
  be used to mount a bid down attack that is inherent with systems like
  email that allow optional authentication: if a receiver doesn't know
  otherwise, it should not assume that the lack of a valid signature is
  exceptional without other information.  Thus, an attacker can take
  advantage of the ambiguity and simply not sign messages.  If a
  protocol could be developed for a domain to publish its DKIM signing
  practices, a message verifier could take that into account when it
  receives an unsigned piece of email.






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  This document defines the requirements for a mechanism that permits
  the publication of Sender Signing Practices (SSP).  The document is
  organized into two main sections: first, a Problem and Deployment
  Scenario section that describes the problems that SSP is intended to
  address as well as the deployment issues surrounding the base
  problems, and the second section is the Requirements that arise
  because of those scenarios.

2.  Definitions and Requirements Language

  o  Domain Holder: the entity that controls the contents of the DNS
     subtree starting at the domain, either directly or by delegation
     via NS records it controls.

  o  First Party Address: for DKIM, a first party address is defined to
     be the [RFC2822].From address in the message header; a first party
     address is also known as an Author address.

  o  First Party Signature: a first party signature is a valid
     signature where the signing identity (the d= tag or the more
     specific identity i= tag) matches the first party address.
     "Matches" in this context is defined in [RFC4871].

  o  Third Party Signature: a third party signature is a valid
     signature that does not qualify as a first party signature.  Note
     that a DKIM third party signature is not required to correspond to
     a header field address such as the contents of Sender or List-Id,
     etc.

  o  Practice: a statement according to the [RFC2822].From domain
     holder of externally verifiable behavior in the email messages it
     sends.

  o  Expectation: an expectation combines with a practice to convey
     what the domain holder considers the likely survivability of the
     practice for a receiver, in particular receivers that may be more
     than one SMTP hop away.

  o  DKIM Signing Complete: a practice where the domain holder asserts
     that all legitimate mail will be sent with a valid first party
     signature.

  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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3.  SSP Problem Scenarios

  The email world is a diverse place with many deployment
  considerations.  This section outlines expected usage scenarios where
  DKIM signing/verifying will take place, and how a new protocol might
  help to clarify the relevance of DKIM-signed mail.

3.1.  Problem Scenario 1: Is All Mail Signed with DKIM?

  After auditing their outgoing mail and deploying DKIM signing for all
  of their legitimate outgoing mail, a domain could be said to be DKIM
  signing complete.  That is, the domain has, to the best of its
  ability, ensured that all legitimate mail purporting to have come
  from that domain contains a valid DKIM signature.

  A receiver in the general case doesn't know what the practices are
  for a given domain.  Thus, the receiver is at a disadvantage in not
  knowing whether or not it should expect all mail to be signed from a
  given domain.  This knowledge gap leads to a trivially exploitable
  bid-down attack where the attacker merely sends unsigned mail; since
  the receiver doesn't know the practices of the signing domain, it
  cannot treat the message any more harshly for lack of a valid
  signature.

  An information service that allows a receiver to query for the
  practices and expectations of the first party domain when no valid
  first party signature is found could be useful in closing this gap.
  A receiver could use this information to treat such questionable mail
  with varying degrees of prejudice.

  Note that, for the foreseeable future, unrestricted use patterns of
  mail (e.g., where users may be members of mailing lists, etc.) will
  likely suffer occasional, non-malicious signature failure in transit.
  While probably not a large percentage of total traffic, this kind of
  breakage may be a significant concern for those usage patterns.  This
  scenario defines where the sender cannot set any expectation as to
  whether an individual message will arrive intact.

  Even without that expectation, a receiver may be able to take
  advantage of the knowledge that the domain's practice is to sign all
  mail and bias its filters against unsigned or damaged in transit
  mail.  This information should not be expected to be used in a binary
  yes/no fashion, but instead as a data point among others in a
  filtering system.







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  The following exchange illustrates problem scenario 1.

  1.  Mail with a [RFC2822].From domain Alice is sent to domain Bob
      with a missing or broken DKIM first party signature from Alice.

  2.  Domain Bob would like to know whether that is an expected state
      of affairs.

  3.  Domain Alice provides information that it signs all outgoing
      mail, but places no expectation on whether it will arrive with an
      intact first party signature.

  4.  Domain Bob could use this information to bias its filters to
      examine the message with some suspicion.

3.2.  Problem Scenario 2: Illegitimate Domain Name Use

  A class of mail typified by transactional mail from high-value
  domains is currently the target of phishing attacks.  In particular,
  many phishing scams forge the [RFC2822].From address in addition to
  spoofing much of the content to trick unsuspecting users into
  revealing sensitive information.  Domain holders sending this mail
  would like the ability to give an enhanced guarantee that mail sent
  with their domain name should always arrive with the proof that the
  domain holder consented to its transmission.  That is, the message
  should contain a valid first party signature as defined above.

  From a receiver's standpoint, knowing that a domain not only signs
  all of its mail, but places a very high value on the receipt of a
  valid first party signature from that domain is helpful.  Hence, a
  receiver knows that the sending domain signs all its mail, and that
  the sending domain considers mail from this domain particularly
  sensitive in some sense, and is asking the receiver to be more
  suspicious than it otherwise might be of a broken or missing first-
  party signature.  A receiver with the knowledge of the sender's
  expectations in hand might choose to process messages not conforming
  to the published practices in a special manner.  Note that the
  ability to state an enhanced guarantee of a valid signature means
  that senders should expect mail that traverses modifying
  intermediaries (e.g., mailing lists, etc.) will likely be quarantined
  or deleted; thus, this scenario is more narrow than problem scenario
  1.

     Informative Note: a receiving filter may choose to treat scenario
     2 much more harshly than scenario 1; where scenario 1 looks odd,
     scenario 2 looks like something is very wrong.





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  1.  Mail with a [RFC2822].From domain Alice is sent to domain Bob
      with a missing or broken first party DKIM signature from domain
      Alice.

  2.  Domain Bob would like to know whether that is an expected state
      of affairs.

  3.  Domain Alice provides information that it signs all outgoing
      mail, and furthermore places an expectation that it should arrive
      with an intact first party signature, and that the receiver
      should be much more wary if it does not.

  4.  Domain Bob could use this information to bias its filters such
      that it examines the message with great suspicion.

4.  SSP Deployment Considerations

  Given the problems enumerated above for which we'd like SSP to
  provide information to recipients, there are a number of scenarios
  that are not related to the problems that are to be solved, per se,
  but the actual mechanics of implementing/deploying the information
  service that SSP would provide.

4.1.  Deployment Consideration 1: Outsourced Signing

  Many domains do not run their own mail infrastructure, or may
  outsource parts of it to third parties.  It is desirable for a domain
  holder to have the ability to delegate to other entities the ability
  to sign for the domain holder.  One obvious use scenario is a domain
  holder from a small domain that needs to have the ability for their
  outgoing ISP to sign all of their mail on behalf of the domain
  holder.  Other use scenarios include outsourced bulk mail for
  marketing campaigns, as well as outsourcing various business
  functions, such as insurance benefits, etc.

4.2.  Deployment Consideration 2: Subdomain Coverage

  An SSP client will perform lookups on incoming mail streams to
  provide the information as proposed in the problem scenarios.  The
  domain part of the first address of the [RFC2822].From will form the
  basis to fetch the published information.  A trivial attack to
  circumvent finding the published information can be mounted by simply
  using a subdomain of the parent domain that doesn't have published
  information.  This attack is called the subdomain attack: that is, a
  domain wants to not only publish a policy for a given DNS label it
  controls, but it would also like to protect all subdomains of that
  label as well.  If this characteristic is not met, an attacker would
  need only create a possibly fictitious subdomain that was not covered



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  by the SSP's information service.  Thus, it would be advantageous for
  SSP to not only cover a given domain, but all subdomains of that
  domain as well.

4.3.  Deployment Consideration 3: Resent Original Mail

  Resent mail is a common occurrence in many scenarios in the email
  world of today.  For example, domain Alice sends a DKIM-signed
  message with a published practice of signing all messages to domain
  Bob's mailing list.  Bob, being a good net citizen, wants to be able
  to take his part of the responsibility of the message in question, so
  he DKIM signs the message, perhaps corresponding to the Sender
  address.

  Note that this scenario is completely orthogonal to whether Alice's
  signature survived Bob's mailing list: Bob merely wants to assert his
  part in the chain of accountability for the benefit of the ultimate
  receivers.  It would be useful for this practice to be encouraged as
  it gives a more accurate view of who handled the message.  It also
  has the side benefit that remailers that break DKIM first party
  signatures can be potentially assessed by the receiver based on the
  receiver's opinion of the signing domains that actually survived.

4.4.  Deployment Consideration 4: Incremental Deployment of Signing

  As a practical matter, it may be difficult for a domain to roll out
  DKIM signing such that they can publish the DKIM Signing Complete
  practice given the complexities of the user population, the
  outsourced vendors sending on its behalf, etc.  This leaves open an
  exploit that high-value mail, such as in Problem Scenario 2, must be
  classified to the least common denominator of the published
  practices.  It would be desirable to allow a domain holder to publish
  a list of exceptions that would have a more restrictive practices
  statement.  NB: this consideration has been deemed met by the
  mechanisms provided by the base DKIM signing mechanism; it is merely
  documented here as having been an issue.

  For example, bigbank.example.com might be ready to say that
  [email protected] is always signed, but the rest of the
  domain, say, is not.  Another situation is that the practices of some
  address local parts in a given domain are not the same as practices
  of other local parts.  Using the same example of
  [email protected] being a transactional kind of email
  that would like to publish very strong practices, mixed in with the
  rest of the user population local parts, which may go through mailing
  lists, etc., for which a less strong statement is appropriate.





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  It should be said that DKIM, through the use of subdomains, can
  already support this kind of differentiation.  That is, in order to
  publish a strong practice, one only has to segregate those cases into
  different subdomains.  For example: accounts.bigbank.example.com
  would publish constrained practices, while
  corporateusers.bigbank.example.com might publish more permissive
  practices.

4.5.  Deployment Consideration 5: Performance and Caching

  Email service provides an any-any mesh of potential connections: all
  that is required is the publication of an MX record and an SMTP
  listener to receive mail.  Thus, the use of SSP is likely to fall
  into two main scenarios, the first of which are large, well-known
  domains that are in constant contact with one another.  In this case,
  caching of records is essential for performance, including the
  caching of the non-existence of records (i.e., negative caching).

  The second main scenario is when a domain exchanges mail with a much
  smaller volume domain.  This scenario can be both perfectly normal as
  with the case of vanity domains, and unfortunately, a vector for
  those sending mail for anti-social reasons.  In this case, we'd like
  the message exchange burden to SSP querier to be low, since many of
  the lookups will not provide a useful answer.  Likewise, it would be
  advantageous to have upstream caching here as well so that, say, a
  mailing list exploder on a small domain does not result in an
  explosion of queries back at the root and authoritative server for
  the small domain.

4.6.  Deployment Consideration 6: Human Legibility of Practices

  While SSP records are likely to be primarily consumed by an
  automaton, for the foreseeable future they are also likely to be
  inspected by hand.  It would be nice to have the practices stated in
  a fashion that is also intuitive to the human inspectors.

4.7.  Deployment Consideration 7: Extensibility

  While this document pertains only to requirements surrounding DKIM
  signing practices, it would be beneficial for the protocol to be able
  to extend to other protocols.

4.8.  Deployment Consideration 8: Security

  SSP must be able to withstand life in a hostile, open-Internet
  environment.  These include DoS attacks, and especially DoS attacks
  that leverage themselves through amplification inherent in the
  protocol.  In addition, while a useful protocol may be built without



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  strong source authentication provided by the information service, a
  path to strong source authentication should be provided by the
  protocol, or underlying protocols.

5.  Requirements

  This section defines the requirements for SSP.  As with most
  requirements documents, these requirements define the MINIMUM
  requirements that a candidate protocol must provide.  It should also
  be noted that SSP must fulfill all of the requirements.

5.1.  Discovery Requirements

  Receivers need a means of obtaining information about a sender's DKIM
  practices.  This requires a means of discovering where the
  information is and what it contains.

  1.  The author is the first-party sender of a message, as specified
      in the [RFC2822].From field.  SSP's information is associated
      with the author's domain name, and is published subordinate to
      that domain name.

  2.  In order to limit the cost of its use, any query service
      supplying SSP's information MUST provide a definitive response
      within a small, deterministic number of message exchanges under
      normal operational conditions.

        Informative Note: this, for all intents and purposes is a
        prohibition on anything that might produce loops or result in
        extended delays and overhead; also though "deterministic"
        doesn't specify how many exchanges, the expectation is "few".

        Refs: Deployment Considerations, Sections 4.2 and 4.5.

  3.  SSP's publishing mechanism MUST be defined such that it does not
      lead to multiple resource records of the same type for different
      protocols residing at the same location.

        Informative note: an example is multiple resource record of the
        same type within a common DNS leaf.  Hence, uniquely defined
        leaf names or uniquely defined resource record types will
        ensure unambiguous referencing.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.2.







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  4.  SSP retrieval SHOULD provide coverage for not only a given domain
      but all of its subdomains as well.  It is recognized that there
      is some reasonable doubt about the feasibility of a widely
      accepted solution to this requirement.  If the working group does
      not achieve rough consensus on a solution, it MUST document the
      relevant security considerations in the protocol specification.

        Refs: Deployment Considerations, Sections 4.2 and 4.5.

5.2.  SSP Transport Requirements

  The publication and query mechanism will operate as an internet-based
  message exchange.  There are multiple requirements for this lower-
  layer service:

  1.  The exchange SHOULD have existing widespread deployment of the
      transport layer, especially if riding on top of a true transport
      layer (e.g., TCP, UDP).

        Refs: Deployment Considerations, Sections 4.5 and 4.7.

  2.  The query/response in terms of latency time and the number of
      messages involved MUST be low (less than three message exchanges
      not counting retransmissions or other exceptional conditions).

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.5.

  3.  If the infrastructure doesn't provide caching (a la DNS), the
      records retrieved MUST provide initiators the ability to maintain
      their own cache.  The existing caching infrastructure is,
      however, highly desirable.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.5.

  4.  Multiple geographically and topologically diverse servers MUST be
      supported for high availability.

        Refs: Deployment Considerations, Sections 4.5 and 4.7.

5.3.  Practice and Expectation Requirements

  As stated in the definitions section, a practice is a statement
  according to the [RFC2822].From domain holder of externally
  verifiable behavior in the email messages it sends.  As an example, a
  practice might be defined such that all email messages will contain a
  DKIM signature corresponding to the [RFC2822].From address.  Since
  there is a possibility of alteration between what a sender sends and
  a receiver examines, an expectation combines with a practice to



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  convey what the [RFC2822].From domain considers the likely outcome of
  the survivability of the practice at a receiver.  For example, a
  practice that a valid DKIM for the [RFC2822].From address is present
  when it is sent from the domain, and an expectation that it will
  remain present and valid for all receivers whether topologically
  adjacent or not.

  1.  SSP MUST be able to make practices and expectation assertions
      about the domain part of a [RFC2822].From address in the context
      of DKIM.  SSP will not make assertions about other addresses for
      DKIM at this time.

        Refs: Problem Scenarios 1 and 2, Sections 3.1 and 3.2.

  2.  SSP MUST provide a concise linkage between the [RFC2822].From and
      the identity in the DKIM i= tag, or its default if it is missing
      in the signature.  That is, SSP MUST precisely define the
      semantics of what qualifies as a first party signature.

        Refs: Problem Scenarios 1 and 2, Sections 3.1 and 3.2.

  3.  SSP MUST be able to publish a practice that the domain's signing
      behavior is "DKIM Signing Complete".  That is, all messages were
      transmitted with a valid first party signature.

        Refs: Problem Scenario 1, Section 3.1.

  4.  SSP MUST be able to publish an expectation that a verifiable
      first party DKIM signature should be expected on receipt of a
      message.

        Refs: Problem Scenario 2, Section 3.2.

  5.  Practices and expectations MUST be presented in SSP syntax using
      as intuitive a descriptor as possible.  For example, p=? would be
      better represented as p=unknown.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.6.

  6.  Because DKIM uses DNS to store selectors, there is always the
      ability for a domain holder to delegate all or parts of the
      _domainkey subdomain to an affiliated party of the domain
      holder's choosing.  That is, the domain holder may set an NS
      record for _domainkey.example.com to delegate to an email
      provider who manages the entire namespace.  There is also the
      ability for the domain holder to partition its namespace into
      subdomains to further constrain third parties.  For example, a
      domain holder could delegate only _domainkey.benefits.example.com



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      to a third party to constrain the third party to only be able to
      produce valid signatures in the benefits.example.com subdomain.
      Last, a domain holder can even use CNAME's to delegate individual
      leaf nodes.  Given the above considerations, SSP need not invent
      a different means of allowing affiliated parties to sign on a
      domain's behalf at this time.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.4.

  7.  Practices and expectations MUST be presented as an information
      service from the signing domain to be consumed as an added factor
      to the receiver's local policy.  In particular, a practice or
      expectation MUST NOT mandate any disposition stance on the
      receiver.

        Refs: Problem Scenarios 1 and 2, Sections 3.1 and 3.2.

  8.  There is no requirement that SSP publish practices of any/all
      third parties that MUST NOT sign on the domain holder's behalf.
      This should be considered out of scope.

        INFORMATIVE NOTE: this is essentially saying that the protocol
        doesn't have to concern itself with being a blacklist
        repository.

        Refs: Problem Scenarios 1 and 2, Sections 3.1 and 3.2.

  9.  SSP MUST NOT be required to be invoked if a valid first party
      signature is found.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.2.

  10. SSP MUST NOT provide a mechanism that impugns the existence of
      non-first party signatures in a message.  A corollary of this
      requirement is that the protocol MUST NOT link practices of first
      party signers with the practices of third party signers.

        INFORMATIVE NOTE: the main thrust of this requirement is that
        practices should only be published for that which the publisher
        has control, and should not meddle in what is ultimately the
        local policy of the receiver.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.3.








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5.4.  Extensibility and Forward Compatibility Requirements

  1.  SSP MUST NOT extend to any protocol other than DKIM for email at
      this time.  SSP SHOULD be extensible for protocols other than
      DKIM.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.7.

  2.  SSP MUST be able to add new practices and expectations within the
      existing discovery/transport/practices in a backward compatible
      fashion.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.7.

6.  Requirements for SSP Security

  1.  SSP for a high-value domain is potentially a high-value DoS
      target, especially since the unavailability of SSP's record could
      make unsigned messages less suspicious.

  2.  SSP MUST NOT make highly leveraged amplification or make-work
      attacks possible.  In particular, the work and message exchanges
      involved MUST be order of a constant.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.8.

  3.  SSP MUST have the ability for a domain holder to provide SSP's
      data such that a receiver can determine that it is authentically
      from the domain holder with a large degree of certainty.  SSP may
      provide means that provide less certainty in trade off for ease
      of deployment.

        Refs: Deployment Consideration, Section 4.8.

7.  Security Considerations

  This document defines requirements for a new protocol and the
  security related requirements are defined above.  Since it is
  expected that the new protocol will use the DNS as a basis for the
  published SSP information, most if not all of the threats described
  in [RFC4686] will be applicable.

8.  Acknowledgments

  Dave Crocker and Jim Fenton provided substantial review of this
  document.  Thanks also to Vijay Gurbani and David Harrington for
  their helpful last call reviews.




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9.  References

9.1.  Normative References

  [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [RFC2822]  Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822,
             April 2001.

  [RFC4686]  Fenton, J., "Analysis of Threats Motivating DomainKeys
             Identified Mail (DKIM)", RFC 4686, September 2006.

  [RFC4871]  Allman, E., Callas, J., Delany, M., Libbey, M., Fenton,
             J., and M. Thomas, "DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
             Signatures", RFC 4871, May 2007.

Author's Address

  Michael Thomas
  Cisco Systems
  606 Sanchez St
  San Francisco, California  94114
  USA

  Phone: +1-408-525-5386
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