17 February 2022
Marriott Austin Downtown
UTC timezone

Post-Quantum DNSSEC: FALCON Signatures in PowerDNS

17 Feb 2022, 17:35
25m
Marriott Austin Downtown

Marriott Austin Downtown

304 East Cesar Chavez Street, Austin, Texas 78701 USA
Standard Presentation Main Session OARC 37 Day 1

Speaker

Nils Wisiol (deSEC e.V.)

Description

We present the first implementation of post-quantum DNSSEC. As a prototype, we extended PowerDNS authoritative DNS server and recursor to sign, serve, and validate DNSSEC-signatures based on the FALCON signature scheme.

A high-level overview of the implementation work, which is based on a modification of the OpenSSL post-quantum fork, will be given, and statistics on performance and packet sizes of our test-bench setup are presented. Finally, we consider arguments around the necessity of post-quantum signatures in DNSSEC in general.

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Primary authors

Nils Wisiol (deSEC e.V.) Matthieu Grillere (Technische Universität Berlin) Dr Peter Thomassen (Secure Systems Engineering)

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