Re: Quic: the elephant in the room

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Sun, 11 April 2021 19:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: Quic: the elephant in the room
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 05:23:03PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
>   *   I don't see why [DNS timeouts] it can't be long lived, but even normal TTL's would get amortized over a lot of connections. Right now with certs it is a 5 message affair which cannot get better. But that is why one of $BROWSERVENDORS doing an experiment would be helpful.
> 
> There are use-cases where a five-second DNS TTL is important.  And
> they’re not amortized over multiple connections from *one* user, but
> rather affect *many* users.  Imagine an e-commerce site connected to
> two CDN’s who needs to switch.

Not for DANE though.  If you want long-lived TLSA RRs + the ability to
quickly change keys, then use TLSA RRs to "certify" an intermediate PKIX
CA.