Network Working Group S. Bellovin Internet-Draft Columbia University Intended status: Standards Track R. Bush Expires: August 25, 2013 Internet Initiative Japan D. Ward Cisco Systems February 21, 2013 Security Requirements for BGP Path Validation draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-reqs-06 Abstract This document describes requirements for a BGP security protocol design to provide cryptographic assurance that the origin AS had the right to announce the prefix and to provide assurance of the AS Path of the announcement. Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119] only when they appear in all upper case. They may also appear in lower or mixed case as English words, without normative meaning. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on August 25, 2013. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Recommended Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. General Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. BGP UPDATE Security Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1. Introduction RPKI-based Origin Validation, [RFC6811], provides a measure of resilience to accidental mis-origination of prefixes. But it provides neither cryptographic assurance (announcements are not signed), nor assurance of the AS Path of the announcement. This document describes requirements to be placed on a BGP security protocol, herein termed BGPsec, intended to rectify these gaps. The threat model assumed here is documented in [RFC4593] and [I-D.ietf-sidr-bgpsec-threats]. As noted in the threat model, [I-D.ietf-sidr-bgpsec-threats], this work is limited to threats to the BGP protocol. Issues of business relationship conformance, of which routing 'leaks' are a subset, while quite important to operators are outside the scope of the working group and therefore this document. It is hoped that these issues will be better understood in the future. 2. Recommended Reading This document assumes knowledge of the RPKI see [RFC6480], the RPKI Repository Structure, see [RFC6481]. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 This document assumes ongoing incremental deployment of ROAs, see [RFC6482], the RPKI to Router Protocol, see [RFC6810], and RPKI-based Prefix Validation, see [RFC6811]. And, of course, a knowledge of BGP [RFC4271] is required. 3. General Requirements The following are general requirements for a BGPsec protocol: 3.1 A BGPsec design must allow the receiver of a BGP announcement to determine, to a strong level of certainty, that the received PATH attribute accurately represents the sequence of eBGP exchanges that propagated the prefix from the origin AS to the receiver, particularly if an AS has added or deleted any AS number other than its own in the path attribute. This includes modification to the number of AS prepends. 3.2 A BGPsec design MUST be amenable to incremental deployment. Any incompatible protocol capabilities MUST be negotiated. 3.3 A BGPsec design MUST provide analysis of the operational considerations for deployment and particularly of incremental deployment, e.g, contiguous islands, non-contiguous islands, universal deployment, etc.. 3.4 As cryptographic payloads and memory requirements on routers are likely to increase, a BGPsec design MAY require use of new hardware. I.e. compatibility with current hardware abilities is not a requirement that this document imposes on a solution. 3.5 A BGPsec design need not prevent attacks on data plane traffic. It need not provide assurance that the data plane even follows the control plane. 3.6 A BGPsec design MUST resist attacks by an enemy who has access to the inter-router link layer, per Section 3.1.1.2 of [RFC4593]. In particular, such a design must provide mechanisms for authentication of all data, including protecting against message insertion, deletion, modification, or replay. Mechanisms that suffice include TCP sessions authenticated with TCP-AO [RFC5925], IPsec [RFC4301], or TLS [RFC5246]. 3.7 It is assumed that a BGPsec design will require information about holdings of address space and ASNs, and assertions about binding of address space to ASNs. A BGPsec design MAY make use of a security infrastructure (e.g., a PKI) to distribute such authenticated data. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 3.8 It is entirely OPTIONAL to secure AS SETs and prefix aggregation. The long range solution to this is the deprecation of AS-SETs, see [RFC6472]. 3.9 If a BGPsec design uses signed prefixes, given the difficulty of splitting a signed message while preserving the signature, it need NOT handle multiple prefixes in a single UPDATE PDU. 3.10 A BGPsec design MUST enable each BGPsec speaker to configure use of the security mechanism on a per-peer basis. 3.11 A BGPsec design MUST provide backward compatibility in the message formatting, transmission, and processing of routing information carried through a mixed security environment. Message formatting in a fully secured environment MAY be handled in a non- backward compatible manner. 3.12 While the trust level of a route should be determined by the BGPsec protocol, local routing preference and policy MUST then be applied to best path and other routing decisions. Such mechanisms MUST conform with [I-D.ietf-sidr-ltamgmt]. 3.13 A BGPsec design MUST support 'transparent' route servers, meaning that the AS of the route server is not counted in downstream BGP AS-path-length tie-breaking decisions. 3.14 A BGPsec design MUST support AS aliasing. This technique is not well-defined or universally implemented, but is being documented in [I-D.ga-idr-as-migration]. A BGPsec design SHOULD accommodate AS 'migration' techniques such as common proprietary and non-standard methods which allow a router to have two AS identities, without lengthening the effective AS Path. 3.15 If a BGPsec design makes use of a security infrastructure, that infrastructure SHOULD enable each network operator to select the entities it will trust when authenticating data in the security infrastructure. See, for example, [I-D.ietf-sidr-ltamgmt]. 3.16 A BGPsec design MUST NOT require operators to reveal more than is currently revealed in the operational inter-domain routing environment, other than the inclusion of necessary security credentials to allow others to ascertain for themselves the necessary degree of assurance regarding the validity of NLRI received via BGPsec. This includes peering, customer, and provider relationships, an ISP's internal infrastructure, etc. It is understood that some data are revealed to the savvy seeker by BGP, traceroute, etc. today. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 3.17 A BGPsec design SHOULD signal (logging, SNMP, ...) security exceptions which are significant enough to be reported to the operator. The specific data to be signaled are an implementation matter. 3.18 Any routing information database MUST be re-authenticated periodically or in an event-driven manner, especially in response to events such as, for example, PKI updates. 3.19 Any inter-AS use of cryptographic hashes or signatures, MUST provide mechanisms for algorithm agility. 3.20 A BGPsec design SHOULD NOT presume to know the intent of the originator of a NLRI, nor that of any AS on the AS Path. 3.21 A BGPsec listener SHOULD NOT trust non-BGPsec markings, such as communities, across trust boundaries. 4. BGP UPDATE Security Requirements The following requirements MUST be met in the processing of BGP UPDATE messages: 4.1 A BGPsec design MUST enable each recipient of an UPDATE to formally validate that the origin AS in the message is authorized to originate a route to the prefix(es) in the message. 4.2 A BGPsec design MUST enable the recipient of an UPDATE to formally determine that the NLRI has traversed the AS path indicated in the UPDATE. Note that this is more stringent than showing that the path is merely not impossible. 4.3 Replay of BGP UPDATE messages need not be completely prevented, but a BGPsec design SHOULD provide a mechanism to control the window of exposure to replay attacks. 4.4 A BGPsec design SHOULD provide some level of assurance that the origin of a prefix is still 'alive', i.e. that a monkey in the middle has not withheld a WITHDRAW message or the effects thereof. 4.5 The route of an UPDATE message SHOULD be able to be authenticated as the message is processed. 4.6 Normal sanity checks of received announcements MUST be done, e.g. verification that the first element of the AS_PATH list corresponds to the locally configured AS of the peer from which the UPDATE was received. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 4.7 The output of a router applying BGPsec validation to a received UPDATE MUST be unequivocal and conform to a fully specified state in the design. 5. IANA Considerations This document asks nothing of the IANA. 6. Security Considerations The data plane might not follow the control plane. Security for subscriber traffic is outside the scope of this document, and of BGP security in general. IETF standards for payload data security should be employed. While adoption of BGP security measures may ameliorate some classes of attacks on traffic, these measures are not a substitute for use of subscriber-based security. 7. Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank the authors of [I-D.ietf-rpsec-bgpsecrec] from whom we liberally stole, Russ Housley, Geoff Huston, Steve Kent, Sandy Murphy, Eric Osterweil, John Scudder, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Sam Weiler, and a number of others. 8. References 8.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-sidr-bgpsec-threats] Kent, S. and A. Chi, "Threat Model for BGP Path Security", draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-threats-04 (work in progress), January 2013. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4593] Barbir, A., Murphy, S., and Y. Yang, "Generic Threats to Routing Protocols", RFC 4593, October 2006. [RFC5925] Touch, J., Mankin, A., and R. Bonica, "The TCP Authentication Option", RFC 5925, June 2010. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 8.2. Informative References [I-D.ga-idr-as-migration] George, W. and S. Amante, "Autonomous System (AS) Migration Features and Their Effects on the BGP AS_PATH Attribute", draft-ga-idr-as-migration-00 (work in progress), September 2012. [I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages] Patel, K., Ward, D., and R. Bush, "Extended Message support for BGP", draft-ietf-idr-bgp-extended-messages-05 (work in progress), December 2012. [I-D.ietf-rpsec-bgpsecrec] Christian, B. and T. Tauber, "BGP Security Requirements", draft-ietf-rpsec-bgpsecrec-10 (work in progress), November 2008. [I-D.ietf-sidr-ltamgmt] Reynolds, M., Kent, S., and M. Lepinski, "Local Trust Anchor Management for the Resource Public Key Infrastructure", draft-ietf-sidr-ltamgmt-07 (work in progress), October 2012. [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006. [RFC4301] Kent, S. and K. Seo, "Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol", RFC 4301, December 2005. [RFC5246] Dierks, T. and E. Rescorla, "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2", RFC 5246, August 2008. [RFC6472] Kumari, W. and K. Sriram, "Recommendation for Not Using AS_SET and AS_CONFED_SET in BGP", BCP 172, RFC 6472, December 2011. [RFC6480] Lepinski, M. and S. Kent, "An Infrastructure to Support Secure Internet Routing", RFC 6480, February 2012. [RFC6481] Huston, G., Loomans, R., and G. Michaelson, "A Profile for Resource Certificate Repository Structure", RFC 6481, February 2012. [RFC6482] Lepinski, M., Kent, S., and D. Kong, "A Profile for Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs)", RFC 6482, February 2012. Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Requirements for BGP Path Validation February 2013 [RFC6810] Bush, R. and R. Austein, "The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to Router Protocol", RFC 6810, January 2013. [RFC6811] Mohapatra, P., Scudder, J., Ward, D., Bush, R., and R. Austein, "BGP Prefix Origin Validation", RFC 6811, January 2013. Authors' Addresses Steven M. Bellovin Columbia University 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 0401 New York, New York 10027 US Phone: +1 212 939 7149 Email: bellovin@acm.org Randy Bush Internet Initiative Japan 5147 Crystal Springs Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110 US Email: randy@psg.com David Ward Cisco Systems 170 W. Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA Email: dward@cisco.com Bellovin, et al. Expires August 25, 2013 [Page 8]