Re: Last WG call for draft-ietf-dnsop-root-opreq-02.txt.

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>> i probably am forgetting something significant in some relevant document,
>> but how is end of line encoded in a zone file?  if one is to compare hashes,
>> either the hash must ignore line ends (which might offer a security
>> vulnerability) or there must be a common understanding of the value of a
>> line end.
> If using email, I'd suggest sending a complete zone file and signing it.
> Sidesteps the issue by pushing it down to the MIME level.

the problem is that i am comparing the hash of the emailed zone file with
the hash of the zone file as stored on my system.

> Apart from that, see the Content-MD5 RFC (RFC 1864) for some discussion
> and a possible way to do it (mandate CRLF *for calculating the checksum*).

this is what i expected to find, a canonic representation of line ends in a
zone file in an axfr, in 1034-5.  i did not find it.

randy