To:
Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
Cc:
Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>, keydist@cafax.se
From:
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date:
07 Jan 2002 21:43:31 -0500
In-Reply-To:
Paul Hoffman / IMC's message of "Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:20:33 -0800"
Sender:
owner-keydist@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: From whence we came...
Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org> writes:
> It appears that this discussion has more-than-tangentially been about
> passing around those blobs in the DNS protocol. A bare public key can
> be probably fit in the 512-octet limit that most people put on DNS
> under UDP; a typical PKIX certificate probably cannot. So the choice
> of the blob is in fact important for this discussion.
I think we're already assuming EDNS0 and DNSSEC, which already requires
support for >512 bytes (and provides a way of negotiating support).
So, no, size is not (really) an issue.
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --Internet Mail Consortium
-derek
--
Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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