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To: Brian.Wellington@nominum.com (Brian Wellington)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, scottr@antd.nist.gov, dnssec@cafax.se
From: Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 16:00:37 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209181552110.21236-100000@spratly.nominum.com> from Brian Wellington at "Sep 18, 2 03:53:35 pm"
Sender: owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject: Re: key length & fragmentation

% On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Bill Manning wrote:
% 
% > % Short answer - "no" I don't think operational issues should dictate key
% > % lengths, but huge keys don't necessarily mean more secure either :)
% > 
% > 	See the point above. If IDS/firewalls toss UDP fragments,
% > 	we loose.
% 
% Maybe the right answer is to tune the EDNS packet size to avoid UDP 
% fragmentation?  4096 is bigger than most MTUs, but 1280 probably isn't, 
% and should be enough for most common responses.
% 
% Brian

	perhaps, but does that leave us w/ "strong enough" keys?


-- 
--bill

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