Re: [DNSOP] on staleness of code points and code (mentions MD5 commentary from IETF98)

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Tue, 28 March 2017 14:36 UTC

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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] on staleness of code points and code (mentions MD5 commentary from IETF98)
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Chris Thompson just mentioned to me another reason for dropping support
for RSAMD5: it uses a different DNSKEY tag calculation, which implies that
dropping support should simplify validators more than dropping other
algorithms.

Tony.
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