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Re: [dnsext] I-D Action:draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-rsasha256-07.txt



Jelte and all,

  Sorry for being silent so long.  Good point Jelte!  if nsec3 is
not used as a validator, the DNSSEC implemented in such a manner,
is nearly worthless for very useful purposes.

Jelte Jansen wrote:

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> Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> >       The only reason to have different numbers is if the wg
> >       believes that there will be DNSSEC implementations in the
> >       future that will not support NSEC3.
>
> >       Given that a number
> >       of TLD's intend to deploy NSEC3 I can't see any new
> >       implementation not including NSEC3 support.
> >
>
> me neither, but tell it to the chairs, they made me ;)
>
> Apparently it has already been decided that there will be validators
> that do not do nsec3, even if they cannot validate much of the internet...
>
> But actually, there was a better reason to use algorithm number
> signaling imho. I think Sam pointed me to that. That is that there are
> no other nsec-type-signaling mechanisms, so until you actualy get NSEC
> or NSEC3 records as a validator, you don't know what you are supposed to
> get, opening you up for downgrade attacks if either NSEC or NSEC3 turns
> out to contain an attackable problem.
>
> Jelte
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