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Re: [keyassure] PKIX/KIDNS validation results and draft-hoffman-keys-linkage-from-dns

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 03 November 2010 17:47 UTC

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Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 10:47:43 -0700
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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Subject: Re: [keyassure] PKIX/KIDNS validation results and draft-hoffman-keys-linkage-from-dns
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At 5:28 PM +0000 11/3/10, Tony Finch wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> It is still far from clear how KIDNS will deal with SRV, so it is
>> premature to say that subdomains will be a problem. If KIDNS records are
>> retrieved for the name gotten from (not given to) the SRV request, there
>> is no issue, is there?
>
>Not from the RRset size point of view, but doing that is bad for
>performance.

Can you be specific here? I'm not at all saying you are wrong; I might have dropped something in the redirection. My thought (possibly incorrect) is that one would only do a KIDNS lookup after they had gotten to the terminal end of an SRV chain.

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