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To: "John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com>
Cc: Franck Martin <Franck@sopac.org>, ietf <ietf@ietf.org>, isdf@isoc.org, Key Distribution <keydist@cafax.se>, openssl-users@openssl.org, owner-ietf@ietf.org
From: Simon Josefsson <simon+keydist@josefsson.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 21:22:56 +0200
In-Reply-To: <OF4A931F67.FFE1C8BB-ON85256BD7.004D98DC@incentivesystems.com> ("JohnStracke"'s message of "Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:08:49 -0400")
Sender: owner-keydist@cafax.se
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Subject: Re: Global PKI on DNS?

"John Stracke" <jstracke@incentivesystems.com> writes:

>>The CERT extension to DNS allows to place there a URI, a URI is smaller
> than
>>a cert and stays in a udp packet.
>
> Bootstrap problem: how can you trust the results of the URI?

The URI can contain a hash (fingerprint) of the target data.  C.f. TLS
extensions document.


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