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To: lewis@tislabs.com
Cc: dnssec@cafax.se
From: Havard Eidnes <he@uninett.no>
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:58:47 +0200 (CEST)
In-Reply-To: <v03130304b7bac2ffa6f9@[199.171.39.4]>
Sender: owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject: Re: CERTificates and public keys

> The issue of putting unsigned public keys in the CERT RR:
>    1) Why not just use the TXT record for this?

Because TXT is unsuitable for storage of strictly structured data,
perhaps primarily due to the lack of conventions (and the difficulty
of imposing any after the fact) for "subtyping" of the different
structured data blobs which want to piggy-back on the TXT record.

Regards,

- Håvard

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