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Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc5011-security-considerations-01.txt

Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net> Thu, 25 May 2017 21:31 UTC

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From: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
To: Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc5011-security-considerations-01.txt
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Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> writes:

> I might be wrong, but it would seem to me that the doc covers two situations:
> 1. How long to wait after publishing a key before signing exclusively with that key.

Thank you.  That is exactly the intent of the document.  

> 2. How long after you stop signing with a key before you remove it.

Actually, it's how long you have to wait before removing a key that you
set the revoke bit on.

> And both should apply no matter how many keys a zone happens to have.

Yes yes yes.  It has nothing to do with the number of keys.  It's purely
the "if you exclusively sign with a (any) new key before it has been
published for this length of time, you're vulnerable to attack".

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Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI

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