Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-muks-dns-message-checksums-00.txt

Robert Edmonds <edmonds@mycre.ws> Mon, 28 September 2015 17:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-muks-dns-message-checksums-00.txt
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Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> This is a new draft on DNS message checksums. I look forward to hearing
> review comments.

Hi, Mukund:

16 bits is an awful lot of space for the ALGORITHM field.  Compare to
the DNSSEC algorithm number field, which is only 8 bits.

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Robert Edmonds