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To: Miek Gieben <miekg@atoom.net>
Cc: dnssec@cafax.se
From: Jakob Schlyter <jakob@crt.se>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 10:39:41 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <20021218204643.GB1756@atoom.net>
Sender: owner-dnssec@cafax.se
Subject: Re: dnssec resolver

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Miek Gieben wrote:

> I've made some improvements in the code. The most important change is
> that there is a resolvsec.conf. This file lists all the secure entry
> points together with their nameserver(s). I've made the decision to use
> DS record in this file in stead of key records. The first reason is that
> I think DS records are somewhat easier to handle than key records. The
> second, related, reason is that this makes the parsing of the file a lot
> simpler.

I've just played around some with the code, it is really useful for
debugging. nice work!

I also agree with the decision to use ds records for trust and hope that
our friends at ISC will implement this in bind9 as well - it would be much
easier when configuring the resolvers. combined with a good
pseudo-language generator (such as bubblebabble used by ssh) out-of-band
verification is also easier.

example:

  9d58f48fe8675d9b52021daa47cd2a35
  ... becomes ...
  xoced-kyvak-fydul-rorer-robat-lyhav-meran-socok-laram-robog-coxux


	jakob

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