Re: Quic: the Elephant in the Room

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Wed, 21 April 2021 17:03 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:03:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: Quic: the Elephant in the Room
To: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
Cc: Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Matt Joras <matt.joras@gmail.com>, Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>, David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>, IETF QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 12:56 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

>
> On 4/21/21 9:46 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
> >
> > I also got told that signing a zone is tantamount to "boiling the ocean".
> > You're misquoting David. He said:
> >
> > On 2021-4-20, at 20:20, David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I'm not saying that a 3-packet handshake would be bad, I'm saying
> >> that it's not worth boiling the ocean to remove 2 packets.
> > Nowhere in that sentence or the rest of David's email do I see any
> mention of signing zones.
>
>   > Again, not a topic for *this* mailing list.
>
> Chrome has already implemented DANE once upon a time. The only thing
> left is for Google to DNSSec sign their zone. That's it. If there is
> something else, I'm all ears.
>

It is very rare that I make an assertion on a public mailing list and refer
to reasons I am not prepared to discuss in public but I am going to do that
on this occasion.

There are very good reasons why Google and other large international
network service providers should not sign their DNSSEC zones. Securing the
Internet is about rather more than securing the Internet.