Possibly questionable security decisions in DNS root management

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:24:06PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Ekr has a very good blog posting on what seems like a bad security
> decision being made by Verisign on management of the DNS root key.
> 
> http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2009/10/on_the_security_of_zsk_rollove.html
> 
> In summary, a decision is being made to use a "short lived" 1024 bit key
> for the signature because longer keys would result in excessively large
> DNS packets. However, such short keys are very likely crackable in short
> periods of time if the stakes are high enough -- and few keys in
> existence are this valuable.


	however - the VSGN proposal meets current NIST guidelines.

--bill


> 
> Perry
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> Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com
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