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Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Thu, 27 March 2014 15:10 UTC

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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Nicholas Weaver <nweaver@icsi.berkeley.edu
> wrote:

>
> Frankly speaking, since the root uses NSEC rather than NSEC3, IMO it
> should be 4096b for both the KSK and ZSK.  But I'd be happy with 2048b.
>  Using 1024b is a recipe to ensure that DNSSEC is not taken seriously.
>
>
I think I know how to get this fixed.

I'll just tell the New York Times that DNSSEC has to be still considered a
science project until they stop relying on obsolete crypto.


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