DNS Certification Authority Authorization

DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) uses the Internet's Domain Name System to specify which Certificate Authorities may be regarded as authoritative for a domain. This is intended to support additional cross-checking at the client end of TLS connections to attempt to prevent certificates issued by CAs other than the specified CAs from being used to spoof the identity of websites or perform man-in-the-middle attacks on them.

DNS Certification Authority Authorization is specified by RFC 6844, which designated a new "CAA" DNS RR type to carry name-value pairs that can carry a wide range of information to be used as part of the CA authorization process. Use of CAA, where available, to validate certificates is recommended, but not mandatory.^[1]

As of 2016, CAA records are supported in the BIND DNS server^[2] and the NSD authoritative DNS server (as of version 4.0.1).^[3]

References

↑ P. Hallam-Baker and R. Stradling (January 2013). "RFC 6844: DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Resource Record". Internet Engineering Task Force.
↑ Vicky Risk (August 29, 2014). "Certificate Authority Authorization Records". Internet Systems Consortium.
↑ NLNet Labs (January 27, 2014). "NSD: Name Server Daemon Releases". NLNet Labs.

Transport Layer Security / Secure Sockets Layer (TLS/SSL)
Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
DNS Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)
DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE)
HTTPS
HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP)
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
OCSP stapling
Perfect forward secrecy
Server Name Indication (SNI)
STARTTLS

Public-key infrastructure

Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME)
Certificate authority (CA)
CA/Browser Forum
Certificate policy
Certificate revocation list (CRL)
Domain-validated certificate (DV)
Extended Validation Certificate (EV)
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
Organization-validated certificate (OV)
Public key certificate
Public-key cryptography
Public key infrastructure (PKI)
Root certificate
Self-signed certificate

See also

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
Secure Shell (SSH)

History

Implementations

Notaries

Vulnerabilities

Theory	Man-in-the-middle attack Padding oracle attack Lucky Thirteen attack

Cipher	Bar mitzvah attack

Protocol	BEAST BREACH CRIME Logjam POODLE (in regards to SSL 3.0)

Implementation	Certificate authority compromise Random number generator attacks FREAK goto fail Heartbleed POODLE (in regards to TLS 1.0)

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