Re: DS key digest question

[Ólafur Guðmundsson <ogud@ogud.com>]

At 08:56 AM 3/5/2002, Scott Rose wrote:
>I was reading over the new Delegation Signer RR draft, and I like the
>inclusion of how explicit query for DS is handled by the parent delegator.
>I have a question about how the digest is computed.  From Section 2.4.1, it
>says the KEY name and key data are used as the input to the hash function.
>Are these the only fields to be used?
>
>And how is the digest computed?  I am assuming:
>
>digest = hash (KEY_RR_name | public_key_material )      where "|" is
>concatenation.
>
>It might be a good idea to pull this out and put it as a paragraph on its
>own for clarity.

Thanks for the comment, the data to be digested is
         canonical domain name | KEY_RR rdata

the rdata consists of flags, alg, protocol and public key


         Olafur


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