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Re: [dnsext] DNSSEC, robustness, and several DS records

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 12 May 2011 08:03 UTC

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:58:10 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Stephan Lagerholm <stephan.lagerholm@secure64.com>
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Subject: Re: [dnsext] DNSSEC, robustness, and several DS records
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 07:45:34PM -0600,
 Stephan Lagerholm <stephan.lagerholm@secure64.com> wrote 
 a message of 84 lines which said:

> I think it is fair to say that the DNSSEC functionality of a
> resolver without support for SHA-2 is highly limited. [...] I'm
> noticing that FR currently only has a SHA-2 in the root zone. I
> guess they came to the same conclusion.

There are not only resolvers, there are also signing tools. We allow
SHA-1 DS in .FR because some users may be unable to produce SHA-2
DS. (Another solution would be to accept only DNSKEY and create the DS
ourselves but this is for another thread.)

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