On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Carl Ellison wrote:
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 00:34:41 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> Subject: Re: A brief comparison of email encryption protocols To: ericm@lne.com (Eric Murray) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:18:41 -0500 (EST) Cc: ericm@lne.com, perry@piermont.com, cme@cybercash.com, warlord@mit.edu, lgl@qualcomm.com, Cypherpunks@toad.com ...
| Along those lines, I was envisioning adding a KEY RR type to | DNS, and using it to maintain pointers to keyservers.
[...] | This sounds so obvious that I'm sure that I'm not the first | or even the tenth person to think of it, and in fact I | see a KEY RR type defined in the BIND 4.9.3BETA17 source. But | there's just a type there, nothing else to support it. | Anyone know what it's for?
Donald Eastlake is writing the spec for storing keys in nameservers. Its in the process of moving to draft standard; there will probably be something about it after LA. I think its:
ftp://ds.internic.net/draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-09.txt
actually its in /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dnssec-secext-09.txt on any of the IETF shadow directory machines such as ftp.isi.edu or ds.internic.net via ftp. It's up for Internet Proposed Standard and tehre were no objections at the DNSSEC working group meeting this morning. It provides for KEY RRs and SIG (signature) RRs. I recommend people check it out.
Adam
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