cfrpki

Cloudflare RPKI Validator Tools and Libraries

CFRPKI is a collection of tools and libraries to perform RPKI relying party software operations.

To get started with Cloudflare's Relying Party software, go to the section OctoRPKI 🐙.

Disclaimer

This software comes with no warranties.

Components

Libraries

sync/lib can synchronize RRDP and RSYNC repositories.

sync/api provides an easy method to scale a validator using an API for storage. Includes protobuf and basic functions.

validator/pki maintains a certificate store and performs validation.

validator/lib decodes RPKI resources.

Tools

cmd/localrpki performs simple validation against files and generate a JSON prefix list.

cmd/ctrpki performs simple validation against files and send them to a Certificate Transparency Log.

cmd/octorpki perfoms complete validation, with RRDP and Rsync. See the section below for more information.

The tools prefixed by api are modules that can live independently of each other. This is useful for development or setting up a distributed setup.

Getting started

Fetching the TALs

All the TALs files are included in the repo except ARIN.

You can download the RFC 7730 format at the following address: https://www.arin.net/resources/rpki/tal.html and drop it in the tals/ folder.

OctoRPKI

This is the standalone tool provided by Cloudflare to perform RPKI Validation. It should cover the most common use cases. It is the data provider behind https://rpki.cloudflare.com/rpki.json.

It can be used as a one-off or as an HTTP server (set -mode server|oneoff).

The generated ROA list is compatible with GoRTR to provide routers the prefixes. The list can be signed using ECDSA signatures to be redistributed more securely (via a CDN or other caches).

It provides metrics on validation (times, numbers of files) and logs the requests.

All the files will be stored locally. The initialization time will vary and use by default RRDP then Rsync (failed RRDP will failover to Rsync).

It will keep fetching/revalidating until in a stable state (no new endpoints added). By default, when unstable, the server will return 503 in order to avoid distributing partial data. This feature can be disabled by passing -output.wait=false.

The initial startup requires at least 3 iterations which takes around 5 minutes (while a refresh takes 2 minutes):

• Fetching root certificates listed in TAL (via rsync)
• Fetching repositories listed in the root certificates (RRDP and Rsync)
• Fetching sub-repositories (National Internet Registries and delegated organizations)

To install, you can either:

• Fetch a binary on the Releases page
• Use go get
• Compile it manually

If you choose to use go get (your binary will be in: ~/go/bin/octorpki or in $GOPATH/bin/octorpki)

$ go get github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/cmd/octorpki

If you choose to compile, after you cloned the repository:

$ cd cmd/octorpki && go build octorpki.go

To run

$ ./octorpki -h

It is also available as a docker container. Do not forget to add the TAL files in the tals/ folder.

$ mkdir tals && mkdir cache && touch rrdp.json
$ chmod 770 -R tals && chmod 770 -R cache && chmod 770 rrdp.json
$ docker run -ti --net=host -v $PWD/tals:/tals -v $PWD/cache:/cache -v $PWD/rrdp.json:/rrdp.json -p 8080:8080 cloudflare/octorpki

Depending on your Docker configuration, you may need to set --net=host and set permissions for the files in order to avoid some errors.

Using the default settings, you can access the generated ROAs list on http://localhost:8080/output.json. Statistics are available on http://localhost:8080/infos in JSON. You can also plug a Prometheus server on the metrics endpoint http://localhost:8080/metrics. The current state of RRDP fetch will be stored in rrdp.json file.

GoRTR

In order to send the computed list of ROAs to the router, the router must be connected to a cache using RTR protocol.

OctoRPKI does not embed a RTR server. Since generating list of ROAs takes a lot of compute time, it was designed separate the distribution of files from the cryptographic operations.

GoRTR was created by Cloudflare to use a list of ROAs from either OctoRPKI or similar tools able to produce a JSON file.

To connect with GoRTR securely, you will need to setup a private key.

$ openssl ecparam -genkey -name prime256v1 -noout -outform pem > private.pem

You can force OctoRPKI to use the key by passing -output.sign.key private.pem.

Then extract the public key

$ openssl ec -in private.pem -pubout -outform pem > public.pem

If OctoRPKI is running locally using the default port and file (http://localhost:8080/output.json), you can connect GoRTR:

$ ~/go/bin/gortr -verify.key public.pem -cache http://localhost:8080/output.json

To disable signing, use the following flag on OctoRPKI -output.sign=false and -verify=false on GoRTR.

Connect your routers and start filtering

You can then connect your router to GoRTR using the RPKI to Router Protocol (RTR).

Juniper instructions are available on the project's page.

Developing and distributed use cases

To develop or implement RPKI features, it is advised to use the API which will store the certificates in a Redis database.

Other use-cases include being able to run multiple validators on the same data and without relying on filesystem storage (limitation caused by Rsync).

Start docker-compose:

$ cd cmd/api/
$ docker-compose up

Start the API:

$ cd cmd/api/
$ go run api.go

Start the components to synchronize the files:

$ cd cmd/api-rsync && go run rsync.go
$ cd cmd/api-rrdp && go run rrdp.go

Finally, start the Validator

$ cd cmd/api-validator && go run validator.go

It will work iteratively. Each validation may bring more endpoints to synchronize until a stable state.