Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] review: draft-wessels-dns-zone-digest-04.txt

Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> Thu, 01 November 2018 15:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] review: draft-wessels-dns-zone-digest-04.txt
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On Nov 1, 2018, at 16:27, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> wrote:

> The current ZONEMD draft fully supports algorithm agility. What it doesn't support is multiple hashes *within a single message*. Having seen how easy it is to screw up OpenPGP and S/MIME message processing to handle multiple hashes, I think having one hash per zone is much more likely to work.

Suppose everybody supports digest algorithm A (e.g. it's the digest type that was mandatory to implement in the original specification). We use that in our ZONEMD RR because we have high confidence that clients will support it.

At some later time digest algorithm B emerges which has some advantages over algorithm A. B is newer and not all software supports it. We would like to use B because its advantages are attractive to us, but we also want all of our clients to be able to use the ZONEMD RRs we publish.

Since B is new we have lower confidence that it is supported by our current clients.

We cannot use both A and B simultaneously on the publication side, since the specification requires us to choose just one.

There is no signalling mechanism that will give us insight into our client population's support of algorithm B, even if we have non-empirical expectations that support will increase over time.

Since we don't want to break things, we cannot use B.


Joe